 | Thomas Best - 1831 - 328 pages
...but by adoption and grace. It is for want of conscientiousness that so many young persons are found " ever learning, but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth ;" they are like a ship beaten about by contrary winds in the very sight of the haven ; not far from the kingdom... | |
 | Joseph Barker, William Cooke, John Selkirk - 1845 - 634 pages
...unstable souls," " clouds without water," like the unsettled and tumultuous waves, " driven to and fro with every wind of doctrine ;" " ever learning, but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth." While on the other hand, the description of the Christian is, that " he holds fast the... | |
 | William Cooke, Joseph Barker - 1845 - 512 pages
...unstable souls," " clouds without wat^r," like the unsettled and tumultuous waves, " driven to and fro with every wind of doctrine;" " ever learning, but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth." While, on the other hand, the description of the Christian is, that " he holds fast... | |
 | 1849 - 612 pages
...unstable souls ; clouds without water," like the unsettled and tumultuous waves, "driven to and fro with every wind of doctrine ;" "ever learning, but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth." While on the other hand, the description of the christian is, that " he hold fast the... | |
 | 1861 - 782 pages
...in the shape and name of religion, aud great numbers are ready to run after them, carried about by every wind of doctrine, ever learning, but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. In the mean time there is a growing demand to lower the standard of God's truth, to bring... | |
 | Warren Felt Evans - 1869 - 364 pages
...quickens our own intellectual life, and renders us receptive of more than we give. There are those who are ever learning, but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. They are like the dark substances in nature, that absorb all the rays, and never can become transparent... | |
 | William Swan Plumer - 1874 - 396 pages
...in the shape and name of religion, and great numbers are ready to run after them, carried about by every wind of doctrine, ever learning, but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. In the mean time there is a growing demand to lower the standard of God's truth, to bring... | |
 | H. Larry Ingle - 1996 - 420 pages
...against the world's ways but failed to lead others out of those same ways: "[E]ver learning and teaching, but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth,... they and the powers of the earth are one against such as take up the cross." 23 Moreover, from the earliest... | |
 | Mary C. Herrygers - 2006 - 242 pages
...looking for an emotional experience or the latest word from the Lord. Persons in this condition are "ever learning, but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth". They constantly look without; however, they seldom search within. Such persons are always immersing themselves... | |
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... certain it is that there is much in the character of the present times which strongly resembles this. Teachers of all sorts are multiplied as they never were before, and they teach all sorts of things in the shape and name of religion, and great numbers... 