For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. Do all things without murmurings and disputings: that ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among... The Eclectic Review - Page 468edited by - 1824Full view - About this book
| James Hay, Henry Belfrage - 1839 - 500 pages
...harmless, the sons of God without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world ; holding forth the word of life." " Christians," he observes, " are lights in the world, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation.... | |
| 1839 - 496 pages
...harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; holding forth the word of life," Phil. ii. 15, 16. Call, if you please, this commendation of harmlessness a negative praise. It is,... | |
| John Hoppus - 1839 - 634 pages
...harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; holding forth the word of life.' The schisms of the church are A NOTORIOUS 430 EVIL CONSEQUENCES DISHONOR TO RELIGION. Other delinquencies... | |
| First Church (Dedham, Mass.) - 1840 - 548 pages
...harmless, as the sons of God without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world, holding forth the word of life, that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither labored in vain." And... | |
| Edward Bickersteth - 1841 - 312 pages
...OF OTHERS [356] WITH AN ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE JOY, which it will give us in the day of Christ. "Shine as lights in the world, holding forth the word of life, that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain." Phil.... | |
| 1841 - 430 pages
...OF OTHERS [356] WITH AN ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE JOY, which it will give us in the day of Christ. "Shine as lights in the world, holding forth the word of life, that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain." Phil.... | |
| Anglican fathers - 1842 - 546 pages
...unspeakable privilege to be honoured of God, both in the national power and the disposition, in some degree, to " shine as lights in the world, holding forth the word of life." The holy Scriptures arc the true giiic/e of alI Christian education. Let our text solve all questions... | |
| 1893 - 204 pages
...blameless and harmless, without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom they shine as lights in the world, holding forth the Word of Life." III. — CONVERTS AND ENQUIRERS. — That those who have been brought into the glorious liberty of... | |
| Ellen Gould Harmon White - 1911 - 656 pages
...harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither labored in vain." These... | |
| Church missionary society - 636 pages
...they could enlighten others. Of the Christians at Philippi the same apostle writes, "Among whom ye shine as lights in the world, holding forth the word of life." This is what all Christian* ought to do, and what they will do when the true light reaches them. If you... | |
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