 | John Flavel - 1671 - 576 pagine
...teaches men to do good, and receive evil ; to receive evil, and return good. " The wisdom that is from above, is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and...righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace." James, 3 : 17, 18. The church is a dove for meekness. Cant. 6 : 9. When the world grows full of strife,... | |
 | 310 pagine
...that he may mar our testimony, for who will hear those who are known to quarrel among themselves ? " The fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace." (James iii.) Would I be used of the Lord in sowing to the glory of God? Let me " Follow peae« with... | |
 | 1842
...piety, and happiness ; conducive therefore, to the growth of the Church. So the Apostle James says, " The fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace." And St. Paul, in one of his most emphatic precepts, says, " Follow peace with all men, and holiness,... | |
 | 1804 - 476 pagine
...earthly, sensual, devilish. 16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. 17 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. 18... | |
 | Thomas Brooks - 1806 - 270 pagine
...yieldeth the peaceable fruits of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby," James iii. 18. " And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace, of them that make peace." The still and quiet soul is like a ship that lies still and quiet in the harbour ; you may take in... | |
 | 1807 - 570 pagine
...earthly, sensual, devilish. 1C For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. 18... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1803 - 572 pagine
...is which the apostle calls wisdom, may be learnt from chap. iii. 17, 18. " The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy...righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace." In chap. i. 5, &c. above cited, God is spoken of as the giver of this wisdom ; and in the following... | |
 | Thomas Scott - 1808 - 586 pagine
...Christian principles,) " is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, " easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good " fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy:...righteousness is sown in peace of " them that make peace." " For the wrath of man " worketh not the righteousness of God.1 " In all cases where boasting, reviling,... | |
 | Thomas Scott - 1808 - 584 pagine
...easy to be intreated ; full of mercy and good "fruits; without partiality, and without hypo" crisy ; and the fruit of righteousness is sown in "peace of them that make peace.1" The man. therefore, who is directed by this wisdom, will not be so eager to engage in violent... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1809 - 578 pagine
...on, as the proper evidence of a truly wise and good man : James iii. 17. " The wisdom that is from' Above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy...fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy."' And such are the signs of true Christianky, which the Apostle John insists on throughout his epistles.... | |
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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. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace. 
