| Beilby Porteus - 1823 - 486 pages
...interpretation here given of it. The words I mean are these : " If any man among you," says he, " seem " to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, " but deceiveth his own heart, that mans " religion is vain"* Here, you see, is a specification of one particular point (that of habitual... | |
| 1824 - 588 pages
...justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned," Matt. xii. 36,37. Again, " If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but...deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain," James i. 26. The religion of Christ forbids every particular kind of transgression in word. Profane... | |
| John Newton - 1824 - 620 pages
...ot the Gospel, a searching criterion of their sincerity, when he says. " If any inan among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but...deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain." This passage should not be thought a hard saying, for it stands in the Bible ; but because it stan.ls... | |
| 1824 - 462 pages
...hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. 26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but...deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. 27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows... | |
| 2000 - 264 pages
...properly evaluate the church? c. There must be tongue rule in the home. "If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, that man's religion is vain." If people do not rule their tongues in the home, happiness lies stark... | |
| J. Dwight Pentecost - 2001 - 292 pages
...3:12. Then the Apostle James referred to a deceived heart when he said, "If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but...deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain" (James 1:26). A deceived heart sets a false standard, and then convinces itself that it measures up... | |
| Rool Noiman - 2002 - 214 pages
...has learned to involve or say the good out of his/her lips. We are told, "If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but...deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain" (James 1 : 26). The way to bridle or put the tongue under control is by yielding to the Holy Spirit... | |
| Thomas Holland - 2002 - 338 pages
...hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. 26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but...deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. 27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows... | |
| James H Hudson - 2003 - 153 pages
...wrote, in the first chapter of his epistle, verses 26-27, the following: If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but...deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in... | |
| Charles Grandison Finney - 2003 - 1386 pages
...of religion toward any one, we may know that his profession of religion is vain. "If any man seemeth to be religious and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain." The saint loves his enemies. The things commanded in the gospel are really true of the saints. They... | |
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