| William Carpenter - Bible - 1825 - 630 pages
...they are spiritually dis- . cerned, ü. 14. Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their... | |
| Ralph Wardlaw - 1825 - 150 pages
...of a Divine Instructor, — complying with the apostolic admonition, " If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool that he may be wise," — glad to find repose in the unerring testimony of heaven, from tossing on the troubled sea of conjecture... | |
| Thomas Williams (Calvinist preacher) - 1825 - 972 pages
...God is holy, which fmple ye are. 18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth tobewiw in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. 19 For the wisdom of this world i« foolishness with God. For it is vrritten, He taketh the wise in... | |
| Thomas Wetherald - Sermons, American - 1826 - 220 pages
...temple of God is holy, which temple ye are." Let no man deceive himself. "If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool that he may be wise." If we come not to enter within the veil, which is the holiest of all, we can have no communication... | |
| Oliver Reywood - 1826 - 626 pages
...advice of wise and experienced Christians : be not wise in your own eyes : if any one among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool that he may be wise. * Quintillian saith of some, that they might have become scholars, but that they conceited themselves... | |
| Edward Reynolds (bp. of Norwich.) - 1826 - 944 pages
...the wisest man, who is simple and ignorant in the trade of evil '. " If any man amongst you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise f." On the other side, the true and ultimate end of righteous man, is Almighty God '", as most glorious... | |
| Martin Luther - 1826 - 1184 pages
...devil, a heretic, an infidel, and a Turk : as Paul saith, 1 Cor. iii. 18, " If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool that he may be wise." This truth, I say, stands firm. For such is the will that is settled in heaven, that God has determined... | |
| John Owen - Puritans - 1826 - 656 pages
...Hence is that direction which flesh and blood will never comply withal, ' If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise;' 1 Cor. iii. 18. Unless men renounce their carnal wisdom in all its principles, effects, and operations,... | |
| John Owen - Puritans - 1826 - 636 pages
...whatever it be, it is ready to make them think strange of the apostle's advice, ' If any man seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise:'8 apt it is to puff them up, to influence their minds with a good conceit of themselves, and... | |
| Edward Bickersteth - Christianity - 1826 - 706 pages
...philosophers in the present day have often acted a similar part; if any man among you seemeth to bewiss in this world, let him become a fool that he may be wise. 1 Cor. iii, 18. That wisdom of God which philosophers have rejected, multitudes of the poor and ignorant... | |
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