 | Baptists - 1825 - 806 pages
...Knew there was great danger of these connexions usurping too large a place in our hearts, he says, I Cor. vii. 29 — 31. " But this I say, brethren, the...abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away. " This should also reconcile us to the afflictions of life. « We spend our years as a tale that... | |
 | Richard Cecil - Theology - 1825 - 436 pages
...to him by the Corinthian Church. He brings it, at length, to a general reflection on the subject : ' This I say, brethren, the time is short. It remaineth,...abusing it : for the fashion of this world passeth away.' I shall consider the general proposition in the text, without any particular reference to the... | |
 | William Carpenter - Bible - 1825 - 630 pages
...the angels ; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection, Luke xx. 34 — 36. But this I say. Brethren, the time is short : it remaineth,...not ; And they that use this world, as not abusing if : for the fashion of this : world passeth away, lCor.vii.29 — 31. i Behold, what manner of love... | |
 | Daniel Sharp - Bible - 1825 - 26 pages
...caution : " But this I say, brethren, the time is short; it remaineth, that both they that have Avives be as though they had none; and they that weep as...abusing it, for the fashion of this world passeth away." 11 Nor will a consideration of the mortality of man have a less happy effect in teaching us... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Christian life - 1825 - 660 pages
...method, " But this I say, brethren, the time is short : it remaineth that both they that have wives be aa though they had none ; and they that weep, as though...buy, as though they possessed not ; and they that use the world, as not abusing it (or as if they used it not) : for the fashion of this world passeth away... | |
 | Joseph John Gurney - Apologetics - 1825 - 588 pages
...much of his sensibility, are all invariably marked with the same character of brevity and change. " But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth...that weep as though they wept not ; and they that buy as though they possessed not ; and they that use this world as not abusing it : for the fashion... | |
 | Consolation - 1825 - 434 pages
...within their bounds. It is, therefore, a grave advice which the apostle delivers in this case — " But this I say, brethren, the time is short ; it remaineth,...none; and they that weep, as though they wept not; and those that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not." As if he had said, the floating world is near its... | |
 | Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki - Philosophy - 1961 - 412 pages
...inherent in his nature. For this reason it is possible for him to be one of those who are described as 'they that weep as though they wept not; and they...; and they that use this world as not abusing it.' Says Christ, 'When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what they right hand doeth ; that thine... | |
 | John Boswell - Social Science - 2009 - 460 pages
...the impending arrival of the Kingdom of God, before which all earthly concerns should seem secondary: "But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth,...weep, as though they wept not; . . . and they that buy, as though they possessed not" (i Cor. 7:29-30, KJV). For Paul, Christian sexuality had little... | |
 | Robert E. Picirilli - Religion - 1987 - 454 pages
...brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none; 30 And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they...not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not; 31 And they that use this world, as not abusing ifc for the fashion of this world passeth away. In... | |
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But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none; And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed... 
