 For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain.  Parochial lectures - Side 48av William Josiah Irons - 1837Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | 1737 - 468 sider
...ion- aruj fo defeat my Labours in your ger forbear I tent to Converfion. know your faith, left by fome means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain. 6 & 7. But Timothy, at his Re* turn, gave me fo comfortable an Account of your Steddinefs, Conftancy,... | |
 | Richard Watson - 1791 - 506 sider
...— . — that ye would walk worthy of God." Hi. j, 8, — "Ifent to know your faith, left by fome means the. tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in -vain. For now we live, if ye ii and faft in the Lord." iv. 7, 8, " God hath 'not called us unto uncleannefs,... | |
 | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - 1794 - 540 sider
...we. would have come unto you (even I, Paul) once and again, but Satan hindered us." Again he says, " When I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means, the tempter, having tempted you, our labour be in vain." The Apostle James, likewise, says, " Resist the devil,... | |
 | Ralph Erskine - 1796 - 526 sider
...in. -5. " For this caufe, when I could no longer forbear, 1 fent to know y ,ur faith, left by fome means, the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain." — There is no grace that Satan envies and invades fo much as this of faith. This, though not expreffed,... | |
 | 1802 - 374 sider
...even as it came to pass, and ye He exhorteth them I. Thessalonians. to go on in godliness. know. 5 For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I...tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain. 6 But now, when Timotheus came from you unto us, and brought us 'good tidings of your faith and charity,... | |
 | Robert Barclay - 1803 - 176 sider
...&c. For *•*• this caufe, when I could no longer forbear, I fcnt to know your faith, left by fome means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain. (^ What is the qpoftle Peter's mind? Does he judge, that fucb as have known the right way, mayforfake... | |
 | 1804 - 476 sider
...you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation, even as it came to pass, and ye know. 5 For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I...tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain. 6 But now, when Timothcus came from you unto us, and brought us good tidings of your faith and charity,... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1804 - 444 sider
...we were with you, we" told you before, that we should suffer .tribulation ; even as it came to pass. For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I...tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain." Though these " fightings without," and these " fears within," are always painful to the flesh, yet... | |
 | 1808 - 604 sider
...destroy. How forcibly doth he repeatedly express this in his epistles ? See 1 Thess. iii. 5 — 10. "For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I...by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labor be in vain. But now, when Timotheus came from you unto us, and brought us good tidings of your... | |
 | Samuel Hopkins - 1811 - 506 sider
...word seems to be used in the following passages, " Considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. Lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain."* In this sense the word is to be understood, when James says, " God cannot be tempted," and in the same... | |
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