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Page 146 - Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel ; but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price. For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves...
Page 146 - LIKEWISE, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands ; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives ; 2 While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
Page 239 - The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away, and blessed be the name of the Lord.
Page 11 - Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled : but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Page 175 - But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy ; aud the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
Page 60 - Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Page 147 - My heart panteth, my strength faileth me : as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
Page 111 - Have ye not read that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, and said, 'For this cause shall a man leave father and mother and shall cleave to his wife; and they twain shall be one flesh'? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Page 133 - God, and knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law ; and art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness, an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.
Page 27 - And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him.
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| Pealkiri | Thoughts on Marriage: Illustrating the Principles and Obligations of the Marriage Relation |
| Autor | William Jay |
| Publisher | J. Loring, 1833 |
| Original from | California Ülikool |
| Digitized | 6 dets. 2007 |
| Length | 240 pages |
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