 | Thomas Smith Webb - 1818 - 318 pages
...in all his ways. Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted. If any man among you feem to be religious, and bridleth" not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, that man's religion is vain. Pure religion, and undcnled, before God and the Father, is this : To vifit... | |
 | 1819 - 488 pages
...the tongue is at once of the greatest importance and greatest difficulty. 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 *. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.... | |
 | Episcopal Church - 1819 - 558 pages
...forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. 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... | |
 | 1821 - 322 pages
...greatest stress, as necessary to salvation. But St. James tells us, that " if any man among us seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, that man's religion is vain :" and that " pure religion, and undefiled before God the Father, is this'... | |
 | 1823 - 314 pages
...Religion, seek for something, which has no relations :to it. "If any man among you," says James, "sewn <o be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain." When religion is supposed to be'a certain supernatural something, which no one can communicate, and... | |
 | John Tillotson - 1820 - 358 pages
...evil practice, all our religion is vain. So St. James expressly tells us, If any man among you seemeth to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, that man's religion is vain. St. Paul puts slanderers amongst those that shall not inherit the kingdom... | |
 | Birmingham sacellum Erdingtoniense - 1821 - 644 pages
...forgetful hearer, but a doer of the word, this man shall be blessed in his deed. 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 undented before God and the Father, is this, To visit the fatherless and widows... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1821 - 472 pages
...him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth." James i. 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." Chap. iii. 14, 15, " If ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against... | |
 | John Newton - 1821 - 656 pages
...the Gospel, a searching criterion of their sincerity, when he says, " If any " man among you, seem to be religious, and " bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own " heart, this roan's religion is vain." This passage should not be thought a hard saying, for it stands in the Bible... | |
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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. 
