 | Jonathan Edwards - 1830 - 592 sidor
...our own natural blindness and folly. There is a treasure of wisdom contained in that one sentence ; If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.* Seeing our own ignorance and blindness, is the first step towards having true knowledge. If any man... | |
 | Benjamin Keach - 1831 - 228 sidor
...choose to become a fool in the esteem of carnal men, you can never be truly wise. See 1 Cor. iii. 18, " If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool that he may be wise." Let worldly wise men account you a fool; if you are spiritually wise, wise unto salvation, it matters... | |
 | Cyprian (st, bp. of Carthage.) - 1832 - 212 sidor
...him * 'Tis observable, that neither Irenseus nor our author add the word bodily, in this quotation. become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom...craftiness." And again : " The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity." Wherefore as these men plainly have no true wisdom, 'tis utterly impossible... | |
 | Priscilla Hannah Gurney - 1832 - 450 sidor
...refreshment which comes from the presence of the Lord. How needful then is the apostolic injunction ! " If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world,...wise ; for the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God." To become a fool in the signification here intended, is to become rightly and truly humbled... | |
 | Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 578 sidor
...foolishness unto him ; neither can he know ¡Лет, because they are spiritually discerned. 1 Co. ii. 14. neeled down, and prayed, and turning him to the body,...and she opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter she wi« ; for the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God : for it is written, he Uketh the wise... | |
 | Thomas Shaw Bancroft Reade, Thomas S. B. Reade - 1832 - 436 sidor
...which the world admires, is the work of Almighty Power. " If any man among you," saith the Apostle, " seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a...wise; for the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God." However much an ungodly world may despise the faithful ambassador of Christ, there is a... | |
 | Andrew Coventry Dick, Voluntary Church Association, Edinburgh - 1832 - 166 sidor
...be expedient, that is inconsistent with the intimations of that will. The maxim of the Apostle — " If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool that he may be wise,"* has reference, as appears from the connexion in which it stands, not so much to the duty of an humble... | |
 | George Campbell - 1832 - 320 sidor
...little child, shall not enter therein." The apostle employs a still bolder figure, where he says, " If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise." The third and last quality I shall mention, is patience. Nothing can more endanger our forming false... | |
 | Samuel Hanson Cox - 1833 - 710 sidor
...oppose the naked point of "the sword of the Spirit," radiating with more than electrical efficiency : " Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth...knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that THEY ARE VAIN." One of the wisest things perhaps which such men, the best of them, can say, is what one of them (now... | |
 | Grace Song - 2004 - 737 sidor
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Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. 
