| George Stanley Faber - 1808 - 304 pages
...they are again entangled therein and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.... | |
| 1808 - 504 pages
...are again entangled and overc.ome by them, the last state of such persons is worse 21 than the first. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to 22 turn away from the holy commandment delivered to them.... | |
| John Newton - 1808 - 624 pages
...and aggravated doom. It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them. If. you were forced to run for your lives, you would be very thoughtful about the event. But... | |
| George Stanley Faber - 1808 - 592 pages
...wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error :" upon which the Apostle remarks, " It had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.... | |
| 1809 - 658 pages
...Christ, they be again entangled in them, and overcome, 3 1 their last state is worse than their first. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, when they have known it, to turn from the holy 22 commandment delivered to them.... | |
| Ezekiel Hopkins (bp. of Derry.) - 1809 - 578 pages
...and apostacy of these elevated break-neck professors, see that most dreadful place, 2 Pet. ii. 21. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.... | |
| 1809 - 220 pages
...Jesus Christ, are again, entangled therein and •overcome, the latter end is worse than the beginning, for it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than offer Ihey had known it to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them,... | |
| Joseph Lathrop - 1809 - 414 pages
...from heaven." The Apostle Peter, to guard christians against apostasy, holds up the same warning — " It had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them."... | |
| John Newton - 1809 - 312 pages
...near unto death, to restore them to their right minds, and to recover them to himself. Otherwise, " it had been better for them not to have known " the way of righteousness, than after they have " known it, to turn from the holy commandment, " delivered unto... | |
| Ezekiel Hopkins (bp. of Derry.) - 1809 - 648 pages
...What St. Peter speaks of Apostates, 2 Pet. ii. 21. is but too well applicable to the knowing sinner: It had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known zV, to turn asideyrowt the. .'. commandment delivered unto... | |
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