 | Robert Robinson - 1824 - 450 pages
...inclinations, their examples, their writings all say, " The wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. If ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts,...descendeth not from above ; but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion, and every evil work/' As we have no... | |
 | 1824 - 172 pages
...Rev. «u. 15. soever loveth and maketh a lie," Again, " But if ye have bitter envyings and Jame« mu strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against...descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish : for where envying and strife is, there is confusion, and every evil work." — " From whence... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1824 - 340 pages
...v. 22, 23. The Apostle James, speaking of that wisdom which is from above, says, " If ye have hitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and...truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but M earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife" are, " there is confusion, and every evil... | |
 | 1824 - 462 pages
...knowledge among you ? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. 14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. 15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. 16 For where envying and... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1824 - 296 pages
...speaking of that wisdom which is from above, says, " If ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearis, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom...descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife" are, "there is confusion, and every evil work. But the wisdom... | |
 | Thomas Hancock - 1824 - 574 pages
...not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion, and every evil work. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 450 pages
...sin is death. SERMON XVII. ON THE WICKEDNESS AND MISERY OF ENVY AND CONTENTION. JAMES, iii. 16. — For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. THE world was originally created in great beauty and order ; but the disobedience of its inhabitants... | |
 | John Mason - 1824 - 340 pages
...dirt ;' Isaiah Ivii. 20. — He is a stranger to peace, and all the blessed fruits and effects of it ; for, where ' envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work ;' James iii. 16. — His mind is- continually restless and uneasy, agitated to and fro with the violent... | |
 | John Locke - 1824 - 522 pages
...not false accusers (or makebates). — Titns ii. 3. 228 Follow peace with all men. — Heb. xii. 14. If ye have bitter envying, and strife in your hearts : glory not, &c. This wisdom descendeth not from above, &c. for where envying and strife is, there is confusion... | |
 | 1824 - 588 pages
...evidently tending to our peace and comfort even hi this life; for, as the Apostle James tells us, " where envying and' strife is, there is confusion and every evil work." Reflections of this nature were brought forcibly to my mind a few days ago, on paying a visit to some... | |
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But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. 
