| Samuel Cox, Sir William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt - Bible - 1888 - 518 pages
...(Rom. viii. 28). It is the Christian's strength indeed to be assured that " every good act of giving and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, neither shadow that is cast by turning" (Jas. i. 17). He believes that His... | |
| 1890 - 524 pages
...brings forth death.* 16Be not deceived, my brethren beloved! 1T Every good giving and every complete gift is from above, coming down from the Father of °lights, with whom does not exist alternation or shadow of turning, ls Because so minded, he brought us forth with... | |
| Edward Totterson Bartlett, John Punnett Peters - 1892 - 628 pages
...when it is full-grown, bringeth forth death. Be not deceived, my beloved brethren. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation nor shadow that is cast by turning. Of His own will He brought us forth by... | |
| Church year sermons - 1893 - 530 pages
...God. jfourtb Sunbap after Easter. EPISTLE (St. James i. 17-21). Dearly Beloved : Every excellent gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom is no change, nor shadow of alteration. For of his own will he hath begotten us by the word of... | |
| Kenelm Vaughan - Bible - 1894 - 974 pages
...shall call upon Me and Je 29, 12 Fy™ you shall go ; and you shall pray to Me, and I will hear you. Every best gift, and every perfect gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of lights. [Wisdom] hath not lieen heard of in the Land of Chanaan, neither hath it been seen in Theman. Mk 11,... | |
| Cunningham Geikie - Apostles - 1895 - 554 pages
...No; temptation cannot come from God, but every good gift and every morally perfect gift and bounty is from above, coming down from the Father of Lights, with whom there cannot be, as in the heavenly bodies, any variation, or shadow cast by turning. 18. So fax from tempting... | |
| Catholic Church - 1896 - 2120 pages
...Others as on Second Sunday, p. 712. EPISTLE. James i. 17-21. Dearly Beloved : — Every excellent gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom is no change, nor shadow of alteration. For of His own will He hath begotten us by the word of... | |
| Joseph Bryant Rotherham - 1896 - 552 pages
...brings forth death.* 16Be not deceived, my brethren beloved! l7 Every good giving and every complete gift is from above, coming down from the Father of °lights, with whom does not exist alternation or shadow of turning, ls Because so minded, he brought us forth with... | |
| Frédéric Ozanam - Philosophy, Medieval - 1897 - 536 pages
...General Classification of Human Knowledge.- St. Bonaventura, " de Reductione artiumad Theologiam." 1 " Every best gift, and every -perfect gift, is from above, coming down from the FatDer of lights." Thus speaks the Apostle. St. James ; nnd these words, which point out the source... | |
| Edmund G. Gardner - 1898 - 332 pages
...refers to the texts in its first chapter : " Let him ask of God who giveth to all men abundantly", and "Every best gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights. " Beatrice's appeal to St. James to make Hope resound in Heaven is almost, as it were, to introduce... | |
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