 Therefore we are always confident; knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord : (for we walk by faith, not by sight :) we are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the...  The Monthly repository (and review). - Page 5831817Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | James Macknight - 1810 - 492 pages
...confident, / say, and willing radier to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. 9 Wherefore we labour, that whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him. 10 For we most all appear before .the judgmentseat of Christ; that eveiy one may receive the things... | |
 | First Unitarian Society. Philadelphia - 1810 - 506 pages
...nature, he should no more be excluded from his favour than the circumcised Jew: Rom. 2 chap. He says, we labour that whether present or absent we may be accepted of him. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that every one may receive the things done... | |
 | Isaac Watts - 1811 - 466 pages
...be the character of every Christian. And the 9th verse that follows it belongs to all the saints: 44 Wherefore we labour that whether present or absent we may be accepted of him ; for we must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ, that every one may receive the things... | |
 | Elihu Thayer - 1813 - 390 pages
...he "laboured to keep a conscience void of offence, both toward God and man.", Wherefore, saith he, "we labour, that whether present or absent, we: may be accepted of him," and he speaks of being in the body, as a state of absence from the Lord. ; It is so comparatively,... | |
 | Samuel Eyles Pierce - 1815 - 644 pages
...walk by faith, not by sight: we are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord ; wherefore we labour,...whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him," 2 Cor. v. 5, 9. I come, in the last place, to shew how saints are employed in heaven. As the understanding... | |
 | John Brodhead Romeyn - 1816 - 470 pages
...walk by faith, not by sight:) We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. Wherefore we labour,...present or absent, we may be accepted of him. IN the preceding chapter we have an interesting and affecting contrast between the outward trials and inward... | |
 | 1816 - 566 pages
...appreciating the labours of the true servants of God, the divine approbation is their highest satisfaction. " Wherefore we labour, that whether present or absent we may be accepted of him."-^— '.' In all things approving ourselves as the ministers' of God." Whitchurch, Salop. JH THOUGHTS ON SLEEP.... | |
 | Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt - 1816 - 572 pages
...indispensable, we strive to rivet on their hearts, by continual repetition. Mark the expression in the text. As we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him, before whom we must all shortly appear ; as we are looking for and hasting to the coming of the Son... | |
 | 1817 - 780 pages
...further evident from Ihe tth . ver. " We are con6dent, and willing, rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord. Wherefore, we labour,...accepted of him." In the 1st ver. of this chapter tie speaks similar language : " We know," says be, " that if our earthly bouse of this tabernacle be... | |
 | 1817 - 334 pages
...confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. 9. Wherefore we labour that whether present or absent we may be accepted of Him. 10. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that every one may receiv^ the things... | |
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