 | Ebenezer Porter - 1834 - 276 pages
...without the spirit is dead, so Jaith without works is dead also. OF PRUDENCE IN REPROVING. JAMES HI. — 1 My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation. 2 For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able... | |
 | Hugh McNeile - 1834 - 220 pages
...direct and obvious meaning of St. James, where he says, in his catholic epistle to the twelve tribes, My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.* But, to return to the authority of the church : although, as regards MATTERS OF FAITH, we are bound... | |
 | Algernon Sydney Thelwall - 1835 - 492 pages
...neglected. Perhaps you will find opportunity to give a few hints to your friends on these points. It 1 " My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation." might be doing them the best and truest kindness. Having been in utter carelessness and ignorance respecting... | |
 | Time - 1835 - 274 pages
...sentence too much ! how beautiful in itself, and how winning upon others, is "a refraining spirit"! My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation. For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1837 - 630 pages
...this body of ours, is a true human body, when it is destitute of the spirit wherewith it is animated. III. 1. My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation. My brethren, do not ambitiously affect the title of the authors and leaders of factions ; drawing disciples... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1837 - 624 pages
...others ; knowing that this pride and rigour of yours, shall bring upon you the greater condemnation. III. 1. My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation. III. 2. For in many things we offend all. Jf any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man,... | |
 | 1837 - 556 pages
...good, and great harm. 13 They who be truly trite be mild, and peaceable, without envying, and Urife. MY brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation. 2 For in many things we offend all. If any man offend hot in word, the same is a perfect man, and able... | |
 | Nathaniel Lardner - 1838 - 642 pages
...very common among the Jewish people, and against exercising it with too great rigour and severity. " My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation" if we offend, which it is very difficult to avoid : " for in many things we all offend. If any man... | |
 | Asa Mahan - 1839 - 248 pages
...meaning of the above declaration ? To answer this, it is necessary to explain the verse preceding. " My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation." The term masters may mean simply religious teachers, or it may mean slanderers, or critics on the manners... | |
 | Thomas Manton - 1840 - 478 pages
...no benefit to others ; of no more use than a dead body when the spirits are gone. CHAPTER III. VERSE 1 . — My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation. HERE the apostle diverteth to another matter, re-inforcing what he had said in the first chapter of... | |
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For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body. 3 Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body. 
