 | William Hammond - 1816 - 320 sidor
...unless he have it from thence ? To this, we may adjoin the testimony of the Apostle Paul, Phil. i. 29. Unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not...to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake. The apostle, in the foregoing verse, is encouraging the Philippians under trials and afflictions, and... | |
 | William Paley - 1816 - 396 sidor
...for the present distress ; I say, that it is good for a man so to be." 1 Cor. ch. vii. 25, 26. " For unto you it is given, in the behalf of Christ, not...to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake, having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me." Phil. ch. i. 29, 30. " God... | |
 | Robert Walker, Hugh Blair - 1816 - 488 sidor
...those who are exercised thereby. " Uato you/' AaS saith be, (writing to the Philippians, i. 29.) " it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake." But what doth he say concerning the other, Romans vii. 24. " O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver... | |
 | Church of England, Sir John Bayley - 1816 - 738 sidor
...and cast .him for Christ's sake is mentioned in verse 29 as a gift ; " To you it is given in jhe " behalf of Christ, not only to believe on " him, but also to suffer for his sake." (y) " The bowels," &c. ie the ex- v.$. treme of Christian love. See ante 66. note on Col. iii. i2.... | |
 | Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt - 1816 - 572 sidor
...an evident token of perdition ; but to you of salvation, and that of God: for to you it is given in behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake: Phil. 1. 28, 29. Endeavour also to derive instruction even from such scenes as these : for every place... | |
 | Jean Calvin - 1816 - 606 sidor
...the following declaration of Paul: " Unto you it is given for the love of Christ (vrif x(>m') n°t only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake." (/{) VI. But the inquiry made by Lombard and the schoolmen, whether Christ merited for himself, discovers... | |
 | 1817 - 368 sidor
...preserved during several dreadful persecutions 5 but the time was now at hand, when it was " given to him in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake." It is not improbable, that he had a presentiment of his impending sufferings ; for in his epistle to... | |
 | James Renwick Willson - 1817 - 372 sidor
...spiritual blessings which God bestows on man. Hence it is elsewhere said,f " It is given you on the part of Christ not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake." In what other sense can faith be said to be given us for Christ's sake, but because he purchased it... | |
 | Edward Atkyns Bray - 1818 - 458 sidor
...virtue, he says it shall receive an hundred fold, with PERSECUTIONS. He even grants us sufferings : unto you it is GIVEN in the behalf of Christ, not...to believe on him, but also to SUFFER for his sake. So that the sting of the serpent is now the tempter : his bite and his venom moving us to OBEDIENCE,... | |
 | 1819 - 488 sidor
...adversaries ; which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God. For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not...to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake; having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in meb. Wherefore we sent Timotheus... | |
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For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake ; 30 Having the same conflict "which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me. 
