| Wilson David - Reference - 2007 - 422 pages
...religious system that claims to serve the true God but is fallen from truth. The apostle Paul wrote, "I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I...that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ" (2 Corinthians 1 1:2). All through the Scripture this concept of women and marriage is used by God... | |
| Rick Deadmond - Religion - 2007 - 410 pages
...idolatry and the mixing of false religion with the worship of the One Holy God. 2 Corinthians 11:2 For / am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have...that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. (KJV) In referring to the Corinthian Ekklesia (congregation), Paul uses the same terminology. 'Espoused*... | |
| Wayne Williams - 2007 - 134 pages
...personalities. But it creates an inseparable union, for life. Just as the Lord makes us his wife for life, "... for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. " (II Corinthians 11:2). Circumstances Beyond our Control There are two occasions that could occur... | |
| Russell Sharrock - Religion - 2007 - 408 pages
...attack, Paul expresses his deep concern: I am jealous for you with godly jealousy. For I have betrothed you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity... | |
| Doris Rose - Domestic fiction - 2007 - 114 pages
...prepares herself for the bridegroom. The apostle Paul, in writing to the Corinthian church, said,"... For I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ" (II Corinthians 11:2). In the Jewish community, and probably others, the engagement to marriage was... | |
| Philip Schaff - Religion - 2007 - 564 pages
...whose age puts him above suspicion, whose reputation does not belie him; one who may be able to say: " I have espoused you to one husband that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ." Or if there should be none such able to explain, it is better to avoid danger at the price of ignorance... | |
| Philip Schaff - Religion - 2007 - 612 pages
...properly does the Church cling to this name ; for she has heard Paul, escorter of the Bride, exclaiming " I have espoused you to one husband that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ," ' and others like them, kindI for their bountiful Master their lips this His dearest words of the Song... | |
| Philip Schaff - Religion - 2007 - 609 pages
...choose widowhood as they ought, but wax wanton : however he bears with them. Elsewhere indeed he says, " I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ." (2 Cor. xi. 2.) After having given their names to Him,s " they will marry/' he says, " having condemnation,... | |
| Philip Schaff - Religion - 2007 - 593 pages
...the devil, the corrupter of this virginity, is to be guarded against, after the Apostle had said, " I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ ; " he subjoined, " But I fear, lest as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds... | |
| Philip Schaff - Religion - 2007 - 593 pages
...this? Hear the Apostle saying, not to the religious women only but to the whole Church together ; " I have espoused you to One Husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ."6 And because the devil, the corrupter of this virginity, is to be guarded against, after the... | |
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