 | Youth's instructor - 1822 - 488 pagine
...worship of Goo was not maintained. i " If you wish to befriend yourselves, this is the best season : for godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life which now is, and of that which is to come. — Its ways are ways of pleasantness, and all its paths... | |
 | Charles Jerram - 1823 - 238 pagine
...essential to your present pleasure, as to your future welfare ; - that " godliness is profitable for all things, having the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come." Wisdom and religion are one and the same thing : and " the ways of wisdom are ways of pleasantness,... | |
 | 1923 - 662 pagine
...below ? Yes, brethren, just in proportion as we iroDt mth God, we bring down heaven into our souls. -Godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of thai which is to come. The way of righteousness is peace, and the efeet of righteousness,... | |
 | 1823 - 154 pagine
...spise the other. Ye cannot serve God and Mammon. (6M1.24.) 5. How far is godliness profitable to us? Godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come. (I.Tim. 4. 8.) 6. What duty was Titus commanded to impress on the... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1823 - 494 pagine
...godliness withr contentment is great gain. Or, as the apostle says in another passage in this epistle, " Godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come." This leads me to say, 1. That godly contentment gains all the good... | |
 | Beilby Porteus - 1823 - 416 pagine
...eyes of " the Lord are over the righteous, and his " ears are open to their prayer; that godli" ness is profitable unto all things, having " the promise of the life that now is, and of " that which is to come; and that if we seek " first the kingdom of God, and his righte"... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - 1823 - 570 pagine
...succeeding day. 4. With how much wisdom do the Righteous choose their portion. Godliness, says St. Paul, is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of the life which is to come. The nature of the case, and the experience of man, furnish ample... | |
 | Benjamin Moore - 1824 - 396 pagine
...tribute of gratitude. " That godliness, which he has chosen as his portion " for ever, is profitable for all things; having the " promise of the life that now is, as well as of that " which is to come — he can, therefore, rejoice ever" more, and in every thing give thanks." Not that I would... | |
 | Joseph Benson - 1824 - 216 pagine
...next.-r Hence it appears that it is our interest to possess this religion. — Temporally ; " Godliness having the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come ; " of the necessaries of life ; (Matt. vi. 33 ;) of all things useful ; (Psalm Ixxxiv. 11... | |
 | American Tract Society (Boston, Mass.) - 1824 - 228 pagine
...are seen and temporal, but at the things which are not seen, and eternal;" and to impress upon them, that "godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come ;" and to lead them to be " diligent in business, fervent in spirit,... | |
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It respects temporal good, to show that " godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come, 
