Life of Elizabeth Fry: Compiled from Her JournalH. Longstreth, 1855 - 667 pages |
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Page 597 - For the love of Christ constraineth us —because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead ; and that he died for all, that they who live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him who died for them and rose again.
Page 171 - For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Page 369 - This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the LORD.
Page 597 - For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.
Page 353 - When he giveth quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he hideth his face, who then can behold him ? whether it be done against a nation, or against a man only: 30 That the hypocrite reign not, lest the people be ensnared.
Page 69 - For the poor ye have always with you; but Me ye have not always.
Page 134 - I believed the promise was verified with us, that " where two or three are met together in My name, there am I in the midst of them.
Page 142 - When the enemy comes in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD will lift up a standard against him.
Page 325 - Wonderful, Counsellor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, and the Prince of Peace.
Page 497 - Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin : but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.