| John Wesley - Methodism - 1811 - 454 pages
...time, remember that solemn caution of the Apostle, " Let no corrupt communication [conversation] come out of your mouth : but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace to the hearers." You have no authority to vary from this rule ; otherwise, you grieve the Holy Spirit... | |
| John Locke - 1812 - 516 pages
...working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth. £9 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but...edifying ; that it may minister grace unto the hearers. 30 And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God ; whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. 31 Let... | |
| Francis Gastrell - Bible - 1812 - 378 pages
...10. »3. (*/i Strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting 01 the hearers. (w} L^t no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but...to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace to the hearers. (x) Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. Speak a word in season... | |
| Nathanael Emmons - Congregational churches - 1812 - 420 pages
...all vain and evil speaking, and to converse instructively and profitably on all occasions. "Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but...to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace to the hearers." There are a great many christians, who might be extremely useful, if they would aim... | |
| William Jay - Devotional literature - 1812 - 284 pages
..." rometh, what manner of persons ought you to be in " all holy conversation and godliness ! let no corrupt " communication proceed out of your mouth,...which is good to the use of edifying, that it may min" ister grace unto the hearers. If any man offend not " in word, he is a perfect man, and able also... | |
| Jean Frédéric Ostervald - Catechisms, English - 1812 - 228 pages
...of an impure wind, and is a great snare to others. " Let no corrupt conversation (says an apostle) proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace to the hear~ ers." Eph. iv. 20. Q. Are thoughts and desires criminal of themselves? ' A. There can... | |
| William Melmoth - Apologetics - 1812 - 410 pages
...before my mouth, and kefep the 'door of my lips ; let my speech be Seasoned with D 3 salt, salt, and good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. Let no work of my hands cause grief or just offence of heart ; but let me be continually employed in... | |
| 1813 - 600 pages
...read the verse preceding, and the two verses following the above passage in Ephesians. Let no corrufit communication proceed out of your mouth, but that...edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil ajieaking, be put away from you, with... | |
| Missions - 1813 - 500 pages
...church." Aud again — " Let all things be done unto edifying." To the Ephesians he says, " Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but...to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace to the hearers." And to the Thessalonians he says — " Com fort yourselves together, and edify one... | |
| John Wesley - 1813 - 470 pages
...the thing which is good, that S9 lie may have to give to him that needeth. Let no corrupt discourse proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good,...to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace 30 to the hearers. And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye have been sealed unto the day... | |
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