| 1838 - 314 lehte
...the door of my lips. Keep my tongue from evil, and my lips from speaking guile. Thou hast said, that if any man seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, he deceiveth his own heart; and his religion is vain. Enable me to bring forth good things out of the... | |
| Female excellence - 1838 - 240 lehte
...must, however, be regulated, or we can have no evidence of being possessors of true religion ; for, " if any man seem to be. religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, that man's religion is vain." Difficult as is this attainment, it is not... | |
| William Howorth - 1839 - 264 lehte
...and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile;" for if " any man seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, this man's religion is vain." " Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof."... | |
| 1839 - 118 lehte
...of life. Prov. iv. 23. Deut. iv. 9. Mat. v. 8. 5. The government of the tongue. If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, this man's religion is vain. James i. 26. iii. 2—10. Prov. iv. 24. Mat. xii. 36, 37. 6. Temperance. Take heed to yourselves, lest... | |
| William Jenkyn - 1839 - 392 lehte
...He that uttereth slander is a fool," Prov. x. 18. True religion cannot consist with such a course. " If any man seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, that man's religion is vain," James i. 26. A good man cannot be an evil-speaker. This sin of evil-speaking... | |
| John Newton - 1839 - 496 lehte
...thought the most important, a sufficient test of our state before God ; for he affirms universally, that if any man seem to be religious, and " bridleth not his tongue, his religion is vain :" and again he assures us, that " whoever will be a friend of the world is the... | |
| 1839 - 302 lehte
..."If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body." "If any man seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, that man's religion is vain." There is great danger of sinning with the... | |
| 1840 - 488 lehte
...evident then, that " death and G life are in the power of the tongue," Prov. xviii. 21 , and therefore, if any man " seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain," James i. 26. Seeing, then, that the power... | |
| 1841 - 188 lehte
...and thy lips from speaking guile." Remember what the apostle James has said, " If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, this man's religion is vain." Watch your unruly member, guard it, and early train it to avoid falsehoods, slander, talebearing, profaneness,... | |
| J. Frederick Hone - 1842 - 348 lehte
...as tests which may try the boastings of all arrogant pretenders to religion. " If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, this man's religion is vain." Indeed there is nothing within the range of Christian obligation, that comes not under the searching... | |
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