 | John Locke - 1812 - 516 pages
...could not be reformed, as long as that person wa> in credit, aiul had a party among them. TEXT. 18 Let no man deceive himself: if any man among you seemeth...world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God: for it Li written, He taketh the wise in their... | |
 | Seth Williston - Presbyterian Church - 1812 - 252 pages
...Lastly. In determining so important a question as, What is truth ? let every one " ask wisdom of God." " If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise." This is one thing in which every man, who shall enter the kingdom of heaven, must resemble a little... | |
 | Missions - 1858 - 778 pages
...by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.' ' Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth...wise in their own craftiness. And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise that they are vain.' 'Except ye be converted, and become as little... | |
 | Missions - 1838 - 716 pages
...? I know that an army of texts can be detached against me. For one, perhaps, this may be cited : " If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool that he may be wise." But the same author wrote, " I would have you wise unto that which is good, simple (sincere or blameless)... | |
 | Joanna Southcott - 1813 - 626 pages
...thee I shall do all my good pleasure. Therefore let no man deceive himself; if any man among you seem to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise; which meaneth, to acknowledge his own folly, wherein he erred, trusting to the wisdom of the world... | |
 | 1814 - 570 pages
...man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him beeome a fool, that he may be wise. „ 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God;...for it is written, He taketh the wise in their own eraftiness. 20 And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain. 22 Whether... | |
 | William Bates - Presbyterianism - 1815 - 530 pages
...to that objection) it is true wisdom for a man to be esteemed a fool in the world. 1 Cor. 3. 18. " If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool that he may be wise."- This fear by thus conforming our greatest acts to the rale of wisdom, certainly is wisdom eminently;... | |
 | Bible - 1815 - 294 pages
...conceit ? there is more hope of a fool than of him. * Let tio man deceive himself; if any man among vou seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool that he may be wise. If any man think he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet, as he ought to know. If a man think... | |
 | William Beveridge (bp. of st. Asaph.) - 1816 - 436 pages
...supernatural assistance of the Spirit himself that revealed them. And therefore if any man amongst us seemcth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool that he may be wise, 1 Cor. iii. 18. that is, he that would be wise unto salvation, must look upon himself as a fool, as... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - Astronomy - 1817 - 298 pages
...! For who hath known the mind of the Lord ? Or who hath been his counsellor ? — Rom. xi. 33, 34<. Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth...world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. — 1 Cor. iii. 18. For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.... | |
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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. 
