 | William Boyd Carpenter - 1917 - 348 σελίδες
...there is neither Jew nor Greek, barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free " ; and this other : " In every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of Him " — two passages which find their parallel in another pair of sayings : " The Lord knoweth them that... | |
 | Ebenezer Griffith-Jones - 1917 - 368 σελίδες
...without law" combined with the more positive assurance attributed to Peter in Acts x. 35, that "in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of Him," suggests that in their view men everywhere are judged by their attitude to such opportunities as nre... | |
 | George Hodges - 1918 - 388 σελίδες
...any man common or unclean. "Of a truth," he adds, "I perceive that God is no respecter of persons, but in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted with him." And to this the brethren in Jerusalem consent, who when they had heard these things "held... | |
 | Silvanus Phillips Thompson - 1918 - 368 σελίδες
...contrite heart He makes Himself known ; that He has never left Himself without witness ; that in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of Him ; that to him that ordereth his conduct in life aright He will show the salvation of God ; that to... | |
 | Helen Barrett Montgomery - 1920 - 284 σελίδες
...God had those who served him in spirit and truth, all over the world, even as Paul said, "In every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of him." "From the first," says George Adam Smith, "they (the prophets of Israel) had known their God as a God... | |
 | Elias Hershey Sneath - 1922 - 368 σελίδες
...attributed to Peter; for it maintains that the distinctions of meats are not of God, that " in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of him " without national distinctions, and even that Peter himself was right in " going in to men uncircumcised... | |
 | D. Gopala Chetti - 1923 - 274 σελίδες
...in the days of heathenism, " without witnesses " ? Did not St. Peter say, " Now know I that in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of Him"? In Arcana Caelestia, Swedenborg says : " All persons throughout every globe of earth in the universe,... | |
 | Paul Carus - 1924 - 834 σελίδες
...justice and mercy extend to all people. Not till much later still is the truth stated that in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of Him. There is also shown in the writings of the Bible a progressive development of the idea of God as a... | |
 | Benjamin Wisner Bacon - 1925 - 360 σελίδες
...and voice from heaven is taught that distinctions of meats are ordinances of men, and that "in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of Him." Unfortunately for the champions of Peter we know that events really took a very different course. In... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1934 - 428 σελίδες
...keep off are the academic classes and all who pride themselves on culture. and not merely in every nation, he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of him. FAMILIAR MISQUOTATION "Tis not in mortals to deserve success, But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll... | |
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God is no respecter of persons, but in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of Him. 
