 | Francis Gastrell - 1812 - 378 σελίδες
...»5. . . Ca) If 'ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. (ID) Whosoever is angry with his brether without a cause, shall be in danger of the judgment. (*) Blessed... | |
 | Wills - 1813 - 266 σελίδες
...inculcated by the gospel ; 'but .that it proverbially betrays a weak cause 1 " This wisdom dcscendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish;...strife is, there is confusion, and every evil work."— Ep. Gen. of St. James, c. iii. 184 Reflections on [CHAP. viu. After we have read his sermon on the... | |
 | 1813 - 580 σελίδες
...ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the trulh. Ver. 16. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion, and every evil work. x Rom. vii. 7. What shall we say then ? Is the law sin '. God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin but... | |
 | 1813 - 502 σελίδες
...severity. However badly they may judge in other things, they will readily deeide with the apostle ; that " where envying and strife is there is confusion and every evil work," James ii. 13. The world judges rightly in this, it being utterly impossible for the grace of God, in... | |
 | Elizabeth Hamilton - 1813 - 484 σελίδες
...language of the apostle, who describes it as " sensual and devilish ;" be« cause, as he observes, " where envying and strife is, there is confusion, and every evil work." In opposition to this, he describes the wisdom that is derived from a superior source, as " first pure,... | |
 | John Wesley - 1813 - 470 σελίδες
...but is 16 earthly, animal, devilish ; For where bitter zeal and strife 17 is, there is unquietness and every evil work. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, V. 6. A world... | |
 | Assembly of divines larger catech - 1813 - 158 σελίδες
...16. But if ye have hitter emying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against ihe truth. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion, and every evil wOck. Cf I Psaf. 112, 9. He hath di». persed, he hath given to the poor, his righteousness endureth... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 462 σελίδες
...apostle before mentioned, in the third chapter, and 15th, 16th, and 17th verses. The words run thus : " This wisdom descendeth not from above ; but is earthly,...above, is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy." "... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1840 - 586 σελίδες
...the Lord must not strive .•" " The wrath of men worketh not the righteousness of God ,•" " Where strife is, there is confusion and every evil work ; but the wisdom that is from above, is peaceable, gentle, cosy to be entreated, full of mercy, •and without partiality." What ! it may be... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 468 σελίδες
...been a great promoter of vice ; verifying that sentence given by St James, and mentioned before, " Where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work." This was the fatal stop to the Grecians, in their progress both of arts and arms; their wise men were... | |
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But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. 
