| John Locke - 1812 - 516 pages
...and victory, though fafl place* that word so, as modestly to cover it. 16 » Vjd.ch.iii. $, 6. TEXT. 17 For we are not as many, which corrupt the word...as of God, in the sight of God, speak we in Christ. PARAPHRASE. 17 my service in the gospel is well-pleasing to God. For I am not, as several0 are, who... | |
| William Paley - 1812 - 586 pages
...unto death, and to the other the savour of life unto life ; and who is sufficient for these things ? For we are not as many which corrupt the word of God,...of God ; in the sight of God speak we in Christ." Again, 2 Cor. ch. iii. 1, at the word epistle. " Need we, as some others, epistles of commendation... | |
| Thomas Boston - 1812 - 512 pages
...commending Ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.' And says Paul, 2 Cor. ii. 17. ' We are not as many, which corrupt the word of God...of God, in the sight of God, speak we in Christ.' Here the apostle vindicates himSelf from the practice of false apostles and corrupt teachers, who adulterated... | |
| Francis Gastrell - 1812 - 378 pages
...which concern the Lord Jesus, with all con. fidence and boldness. (r) We are not,(j«»Y£ St Paul} as many, which corrupt the word of God ; but as of...as of God, in the sight of God, speak we in Christ. Not handling the word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to... | |
| John Wesley - 1812 - 446 pages
...Paul of doing it, or any that after him should use his generous declaration, " We are not as many, who corrupt the word of God ; but as of sincerity, but...of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.'" Not that the Apostle, any more than his followers in preaching the gospel, desires the people wholly... | |
| John Wesley - 1812 - 446 pages
...have received. " For we are not as many who corrupt" (cauponize, soften, and thereby adulterate) " the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, speak we in Christ." 41. But it may be, you are none of these. You abstain from all such things. You have an unspotted reputation.... | |
| 1813 - 580 pages
...very gladly spend and be spent for you ; though the more abundantly I loVe you, the less I be loved. z 2 Cor. ii. 17. For we are not as many, which corrupt...as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ. 2 Cor iv. 2. But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, not handling... | |
| John Grundy - 1813 - 592 pages
...ii. 15, For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ in them that are saved, and in them that perish. ii. 17, For we are not as many which corrupt the word...as of God, in the sight of God, speak we in Christ. iii. 4, And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward. iv. 4, Lest the light of the glorious gosjjel... | |
| Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1813 - 498 pages
...triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place," chap. ii. 14. " We are not as many, which corrupt the word of God...as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ," ver. 17. " If the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the... | |
| Alexander M'Leod - 1813 - 166 pages
...loved. (z) 2 Cor. 2. 17. For we are not as many, whieh eorrupt the word of God : but as of sineerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ. f aj 1 Thess. 2. 4. But a« we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak,... | |
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