 | Benjamin Seth Youngs - Second Advent - 1810 - 672 pages
...brethren came, and testified of the truth *''• that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth. I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth. Beloved, thou doest faithfully whatsoever thou doest to the brethren, and to strangers." 34.... | |
 | John Owen, Edward Williams - Bible - 1812 - 506 pages
...find the souls of their charge thriving under their ministry! Thus one of the apostles themselves: I have no greater joy, than to hear that my children walk in the truth," 3 John, ver. 4. And thus another: "What is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? are ye not in the... | |
 | John Owen, Edward Williams - Bible - 1912 - 504 pages
...find the souls of their charge thriving under their ministry! Thus one of the apostles themselves: I have no greater joy, than to hear that my children walk in the truth," 3 John, ver. 4. And thus another: "What is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? are ye not in the... | |
 | Missions - 1848 - 752 pages
...last survivor of the apostles, and may you live to show the feelings of his heart when he wrote — I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in the truth, And now, Mr. Editor, should this communication, in your deliberate judgment, possess any practical... | |
 | Edward Dorr Griffin - Congregational churches - 1813 - 416 pages
...when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth. I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth." " He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God... | |
 | Richard Mant (bp. of Down, Connor and Dromore.) - 1813 - 32 pages
...the " brethren came and testified of the truth that is in " thee, even as thou walkest in the truth. I have no " greater joy than to hear that my children walk in " truth f." Such is the foundation of the joy, which we bear the holy Apostles, in the spirit of charity,... | |
 | Missions - 1839 - 702 pages
...these graces, how happily will many a faithful pastor exclaim, in the language of the apostle John, " I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth!" In performing the duties of a Christian life, in conflicting with error, in resisting temptation,... | |
 | James BOWDEN (Minister at Tooting.) - 1814 - 634 pages
...runneth over. The gifts of his hand, and the' promises of his word, furnish a goodly heritage. But I have no greater joy than to hear that my children" walk in the truth. Blessed be God) that in so great a measure my house is so with God as he taught' my heart to desire,... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1857 - 1220 pages
...when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth. I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth." (3 John 3, 4.) So also Paul, who was not a whit behind the chief of the Apostles in his endeavours... | |
 | Nathaniel Lardner - Dissenters, Religious - 1815 - 654 pages
...God," ' ver. 9. 16. The third epistle of St. John is quoted in this manner: ' The g scripture says, " I have ' no greater joy, than to hear, that my children walk in truth."' 17- I would just observe here, that in these Greek works, where St. John's first epistle is... | |
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I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth. 4 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth. 
