| Robert Hawker - Christian life - 1810 - 214 pages
...conversation at becometh the Gospel of Christ .- that no corrupt communication may proceed out qf the mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying,...may minister grace unto the hearers. Ephes. iv. 29. Lastly, Whatsoever is done in isord or deed, all is to be done in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving... | |
| Charles Drelincourt - 1810 - 580 pages
...when St. Paul had advised the Ephesians, " that no corrupt communication should proceed out of their mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers," he adds immediately after, " Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby you are sealed unto the day... | |
| Charles Drelincourt - Death - 1810 - 614 pages
...when St. Paul had advised the Ephesians, "that no corrupt communication should proceed out of their mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers," he adds immediately after, " Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby you are sealed unto the day... | |
| Joseph Lathrop - Congregational churches - 1810 - 660 pages
...SERMON XXX. Pure and Edifying Conversation. KFHESIANS iv. 59. Let no corrufit communication firoceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace to the hearert^ IN this, and in the preceding and following verses, the Apostle instructs us, how the... | |
| James Macknight - Bible - 1810 - 574 pages
...he may have to give to him thut needeth. 29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of yourmouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. 26 Opyi^eo&e, xai \wi dHaptavste' 6 r&tog fiyj £7tiSJSL tOi Miy-re ck<Wf ToTtov rot 28 C0 xhsTttuv... | |
| George Campbell - Christian ethics - 1810 - 360 pages
...the apostolical admonition ought to be sacredly observed, that " nothing proceed out of the speaker's mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace to the hearers." But for our direction in this kind of discernment, no precepts, it must be acknowledged,... | |
| Thomas Vincent - Prayer - 1810 - 326 pages
...and sanctification. Eph. iv. 29, Let no corrupt communication proceed oiit of your mouth, but tint which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. 3. In behaviour, by such a conversation and actions as are modest and chaste. 1 Pet. iii. 1, 2, That... | |
| Church of Scotland - Presbyterianism - 1810 - 636 pages
...fittest. And that they likewise take heed that no corrupt communication proceed out of their mouths, but that which is good, to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace to the hearers. The drift and scope of all these Directions is no other, but that, upon the one part,... | |
| Samuel Hopkins - Millennium (Eschatology) - 1811 - 536 pages
...becoming reverence and solemnity ; and carefully avoiding all vain, trifling conversation. " Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but...edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. "f 6. The christian ought to give great and constant attention to his Bible, reading and studying it... | |
| Isaac Watts - 1811 - 494 pages
...evil to say of you.' He gives all the Christians at Ephesus the same advice, Eph. iv. 29. * Let no corrupt communication proceed * out of your mouth,...the use * of edifying, that it may minister grace unfo the hear.* ers.J Talk of something that may improve one ano6 Christian Morality, namely, Sermi... | |
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