 | Francis Gastrell - Bible - 1812 - 378 pages
...»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... | |
 | William Melmoth - Apologetics - 1812 - 410 pages
...mire and dirt. Is. Ivii. £0. 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 rest.? less and uneasy, agitated to and fro Avith the violent... | |
 | Frances Elizabeth King - Christian life - 1812 - 146 pages
...let them avoid envy, ill-will, and competition, as destructive of virtue and social happiness : " * For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work." — Let them behave to each other with gentleness ; cultivating a meek and humble temper, seeking each... | |
 | John Wesley - Methodism - 1812 - 452 pages
...against the truth : as if any such zeal, any thing contrary to love, could consist with true wisdom. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where bitter zeal and strife are, there is confusion and every evil work. But the wisdom which is from above,... | |
 | Wills - 1813 - 266 pages
...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... | |
 | Presbyterianism - 1813 - 580 pages
...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... | |
 | Richard Mant - Apologetics - 1813 - 440 pages
...works with meekness of wisdom. 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 parthty, sensual, devilish V VI. It may be sufficient if I bring before you one other motive to the... | |
 | John Wesley - 1813 - 470 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Elizabeth Hamilton - Education - 1813 - 484 pages
...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,... | |
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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. 
