 | Francis Gastrell - Bible - 1812 - 378 pages
...another.. (y) Foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes. And the servants of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all men. (:s) Strive not with a man without cause ; if he have clone thea no hnrm. • • (f) l Cor. i. 10... | |
 | Missions - 1849 - 748 pages
...were apostolic principles and maxims which Mr. H. studied to imbibe and conscientiously to copy: "The servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle...meekness instructing those that oppose themselves." He conquered combatants by calmness and kindness: "In all things showing himself a pattern of good... | |
 | Missions - 1821 - 632 pages
...qualifications, will sooner or later disgrace that ministry, and dishonour him-self. ' ' — Anonymous. The servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to .teach, patient (or forbearing ;) in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves ; if God peradventure will give... | |
 | Missions - 1853 - 840 pages
...of the Lord must not strive " — should be a man of peace, not contentions, not quarrelsome — " but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient....meekness instructing those that oppose themselves." The other topic to which you refer, is one of primary importance ; but it is so particularly within... | |
 | Missions - 1832 - 644 pages
...cause. And I would ever impress upon my memory and my heart the admonition of the apostle, that ' the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all men,' even opposers. And if, in any thing which I have written in this controversy, I have violated this... | |
 | Hervey Wilbur - Bible - 1814 - 184 pages
...the word of truth. But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes. And the servant of the Lord must not strive ; but...meekness instructing those that oppose themselves ; if. GOD peradventurc will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth ; And that they... | |
 | 1842 - 634 pages
...nothing for it, as things stand between Be and my child, but to obey the injunction of the apostle, 'And the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all mon, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves, if God peradventure... | |
 | 1828 - 498 pages
...plainly prescribed in 2 Tim. ii. 25, " In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves," for, " the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all men." To yield to their inlreaties would be criminal ; it would lessen the importance of religion ; it would... | |
 | 1843 - 636 pages
...power. Let us try tho effect of better. " The servant of the Lord must not strive ; but be gentle to all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves ; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the ackowledging of the truth." If patience, gentleness,... | |
 | Nathaniel Lardner - Dissenters, Religious - 1815 - 616 pages
...in general. St. Paul, speaking more especially of those who are in the ministerial office, says : " And the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be...meekness instructing those that oppose themselves, if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledgment of the truth," 2 Tim. ii. 24, 25.... | |
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But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes ; and the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves ; if God peradventure... 
