But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord : for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung,... The Works - Page 215by Grace Kennedy - 1827Full view - About this book
| Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1808 - 514 pages
...flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of Go4' Phil. iii. 7, 8. But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea, doubtless, and I count all things but loss, for the excellency of the knowledge cf Christ Jesus my Lord, and do count them but dung that... | |
| Thomas Scott - 1808 - 586 pages
...that St. Paul uses such decisive language on this subject : " What things were gain " to me, those I counted loss for Christ : yea, " doubtless and I count all things but loss for the " excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus " my Lord, for whom I have suffered... | |
| Charles Buck - Christian ethics - 1808 - 332 pages
...he declare to the Philippians the effects of his conversion ! " What things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea, doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I haye suffered the... | |
| Congregational churches - 1809 - 612 pages
...•whom the world is crucified unto me and I unto the world." Again, " What things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea, doubtless, and I count...count them but dung, that I may win Christ and be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which -U. through the... | |
| David Simpson - Apologetics - 1809 - 410 pages
...eyes, to the utmost of my power; and what things were gain tome formerly, these things I now count loss, for Christ: yea, doubtless, and I count all...account them but dung, that I may win Christ, and be found in him, not having my own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith... | |
| Carl Heinrich von Bogatzky - 1828 - 436 pages
...shot and grieved the* ; | And rais'd, like him, a Prince at lajt. What things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ ; yea, doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the... | |
| Samuel Davies - Presbyterian Church - 1810 - 390 pages
...was, in fact, the effect of this love in St. Paul. " What things were gain to me, those," says he, " I counted loss for Christ ; yea, doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord ; for whom I have actually suffered... | |
| Thomasen Head - Children - 1811 - 48 pages
...my restless soul. «. I can sincerely say with the Apostle — "What things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. — Yea, doubtless, and I count all things but loss, for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord." I am infinitely more desirous... | |
| Samuel Hopkins - Millennium (Eschatology) - 1811 - 506 pages
...his Lord and Master ; which he expresses in the following words. " What things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea, doubtless, and I count all things but loss^or tlie excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord : That / may know him," fcfc.... | |
| John Wesley - Methodism - 1811 - 468 pages
...piercing sense of which he was at length constrained to cry out, " The things which were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ: Yea, doubtless, and I count all things but loss, for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord," Phil. iii. 7, 8. 15. It could... | |
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