 | John Platts - 1827 - 688 pages
...intreaty that we would receive the gift, and take upon us the fellowship of the ministering to the saints. If there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not. 1 PET. iv. 11: If any man minister, let him... | |
 | Samuel Burder - 1827 - 502 pages
...all troubles, and fortify me against all temptations. I have found some comfort in 2 Cor. viii. 12. ' If there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.' Thou, Lord, knowest my willingness. I count... | |
 | George Thomas Chapman - 1828 - 424 pages
...truly benign and merciful Being will not be severely strict to mark offences : Happy in believing, that, "if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not." So that if he knows nothing of episcopacy... | |
 | Alfred Pownall - 1864 - 112 pages
...Friendship. Never anything can be amiss, When simpleness and duty tender it. Midsummer Night's Dream, v. 1. If there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.—2 Cor., viii. 12. The Poet tells us, that... | |
 | A. W. Plumstead - 1991 - 400 pages
...he can only "give a cup of cold water to a disciple in the name of a disciple" [Matt. 10. 42], For "if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not" [II Cor. 8. 12]. As we have many members in... | |
 | Joseph Charles Philpot - 1978 - 168 pages
...undeservedly received, and can only lament that both reception and gift should be in so scant a measure. "But if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not." Measured by this willingness, and not by the... | |
 | 1905 - 690 pages
...the kindness, the beauty, the courage — and defines it all as 'Grandmother's laugh wrinkles'. "For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, not according to that he hath not." Very few men or women live and work under perfect... | |
 | Witner Ralph - 1979 - 252 pages
...late, hearing me preach in the Reformed Church at New York, and having heard my remarks on the text, " If there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath and not according to that he hath not," came to me at the end of the service and presented... | |
 | H. L. Willmington - 1981 - 1038 pages
...3. The Father: "Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift" (9:15). B. The spirit of giving: "For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not" (8:12). "Every man according as he purposeth... | |
 | E. Keith Howick - 2003 - 300 pages
...expanded the principle Jesus was teaching to his disciples when he declared to the Corinthians: "For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that he hath, and not according to that he hath not" (2 Corinthians 8:12). Your Fellowman Matthew 25:31-46... | |
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For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not. 
