 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
 | Family Sanctuary, Family sanctuary - 1838 - 598 pages
...the Second Epistle of Saint Paul to the Corinthians, 5th chapter, from the 9th to the 2[st verse. " 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 done... | |
 | John Howe - 1839 - 296 pages
...favourite ! The Apostle seems to put a mighty stress on this, when he utters those emphatic words, " wherefore we labour, that whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him ;"a as if he had said, " neither life nor death, neither being in the body nor out of it, signify any... | |
 | John Howe - 1839 - 308 pages
...favourite ! The Apostle seems to put a mighty stress on this, when he utters those emphatic words, " wherefore we labour, that whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him;"" as if he had said, "neither life nor death, neither being in the body nor out of it, signify any thing... | |
 | Henry Fitz - 1840 - 512 pages
...you give up that, there is no substitute, short of Paul's house from heaven. Paul proceeds, saying, "Wherefore we labour, that, whether present, or absent, we may be accepted of him." • On this testimony I remark, First — Paul continues bis imagery, and the question is, What does... | |
 | Christian - 1841 - 998 pages
...that they should not henceforth live unto themselves, but to him that died for them, and rose again ; • Whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus.' Nothing, indeed, is too... | |
 | Pictures - 1841 - 222 pages
...said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent— John vi. 28, 29. Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him. — 2 Cor. v. 9. Let us labour, therefore, to enter into that rest ; lest any man fall after the same... | |
 | John Shenton Bright - 1842 - 106 pages
...walk by faith, not by sight:) We are confident, / say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. Wherefore we labour,...that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.—2 Cor. v. 1—9. XVIII. They believe in the perpetual obligation of baptism and the Lord's supper... | |
 | 1745 - 522 pages
...for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him." (1 Thess. v. 8—10.) •' 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 done... | |
 | John Lillie - 1842 - 252 pages
...motives of the most devoted ministers of Christ in this city ? We know what Paul's were. 2 Cor. v. 9 ; " Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him." 1 Cor. ix. 22. " I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some." And surely... | |
 | William Dodd - 1842 - 546 pages
...&c. that mortality might be swallowed up of life. We are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord : wherefore we labour, that whether present, &c. we may be accepted of him, &c. Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men, &c. The... | |
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