 | Frances Elizabeth King - 1812 - 146 lehte
...let them avoid envy, ill-will, and competition, as destructive of virtue and social happiness : " * For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work." — Let them behave to each other with gentleness ; cultivating a meek and humble temper, seeking each... | |
 | Francis Gastrell - 1812 - 378 lehte
...»5. . . Ca) If 'ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. (ID) Whosoever is angry with his brether without a cause, shall be in danger of the judgment. (*) Blessed... | |
 | Wills - 1813 - 266 lehte
...proverbially betrays a weak cause 1 " This wisdom dcscendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish; for where envying and strife is, there is confusion, and every evil work."— Ep. Gen. of St. James, c. iii. 184 Reflections on [CHAP. viu. After we have read his sermon on the... | |
 | 1813 - 502 lehte
...severity. However badly they may judge in other things, they will readily deeide with the apostle ; that " where envying and strife is there is confusion and every evil work," James ii. 13. The world judges rightly in this, it being utterly impossible for the grace of God, in any... | |
 | 1813 - 580 lehte
...ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the trulh. Ver. 16. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion, and every evil work. x Rom. vii. 7. What shall we say then ? Is the law sin '. God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin but... | |
 | Elizabeth Hamilton - 1813 - 484 lehte
...language of the apostle, who describes it as " sensual and devilish ;" be« cause, as he observes, " where envying and strife is, there is confusion, and every evil work." In opposition to this, he describes the wisdom that is derived from a superior source, as " first pure,... | |
 | Assembly of divines larger catech - 1813 - 158 lehte
...16. But if ye have hitter emying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against ihe truth. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion, and every evil wOck. Cf I Psaf. 112, 9. He hath di». persed, he hath given to the poor, his righteousness endureth... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 468 lehte
...17th verses. The words run thus : " This wisdom descendeth not from above ; but is earthly, sensual, devilish. " For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. " But the wisdom that is from above, is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 470 lehte
...17th verses. The words run thus : " This wisdom descendeth not from above ; but is earthly, sensual, devilish. " For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. " But the wisdom that is from above, is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated,... | |
 | William Huntington - 1815 - 494 lehte
...the whole of this bustle at G. is his work. God is not the author of confusion. " This wisdom cometh not from above, but is earthly, sensual, and devilish...there is confusion, and every evil work." James iii. 15, 16. Your conduct with Mr. B. is unwarrantable by the word of God, and I hope that the Lord will... | |
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Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth... 
