 | Missions - 1802 - 596 pages
...of an interest in Him \vlio " forgivelh iniquities and re.deemeth from destruction ;" for what will it profit me if I gain the whole world and lose my own sonl ? 1 wish to maintain an habitual seitse of the divine Presence, and of tl>e natural depravity... | |
 | Charles Simeon - Sermons - 1811 - 612 pages
...to endure if I do not serve him? Jt is not a matter of mere choice, but of absolute necessity; for ' what shall it profit me if I gain the whole world, and lose my oun soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?'* Let me not then hear of difficulties;... | |
 | Week - 1813 - 160 pages
...serve thee in fear ; thou art my God, and I will love thee in hope : what will it profit me to gam the whole world, and lose my own soul ? or what shall I give in exchange for my soul ? Row repair to the public service at the church ; but if you have not that opportunity, then employ... | |
 | Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt - Theology - 1816 - 572 pages
...found wrong. " Oh, says such an one, " I see such an event before me. I see my precious soul at stake. What shall it profit me, if I gain the whole world,...soul ? or what shall I give in exchange for my soul ? Every thing else is comparatively nothing. When I look on the world, and see what men are doing,... | |
 | Week - 1816 - 156 pages
...I will serve thee in fear; thou art my God, and I will love thee in hope; what will it profit me to gain the whole world, and lose my own soul ? or what shall I give in exchange for my soul ? Now repair to the public service of the church ; but if you have not that opportunity, then employ... | |
 | John Cennick - 1819 - 540 pages
...dross and dung, that they may win Christ and be found in him. They can easily be brought to think, what shall it profit me if I gain the whole world and lose my own soul ! If they are in earnest to secure the love of Christ, and to gain the incorruptible crown, no persecution... | |
 | William Penn - Society of Friends - 1822 - 340 pages
...more worth, than ten thousand worlds: 'What will it profit me to gain the whole world, and lose mine own soul? Or what shall I give in exchange for my soul?' What is this world but an empty bubble, a shadow that flies away ? All its glittering profits, and... | |
 | Christian life - 1883 - 404 pages
...make him renounce his faith in the saving efficacy of Christ's atoning blood ; " besides," said he, " what shall it profit me if I gain the whole world and lose my own soul ? " After some further talk with his uncle Eliezer was led away to prison, there to be insulted and... | |
 | Richard Cecil - Theology - 1825 - 436 pages
...wrong. " Oh," says such an one, " I see such an event before me. I see my precious soul at stake. ' What shall it profit me, if I gain the whole world,...soul ? or what shall I give in exchange for my soul ?' Every thing else is comparatively nothing. When I look on the world, and see what men are doing,... | |
 | Thomas Carpenter (schoolmaster.) - 1828 - 332 pages
...pass away like the morning cloud, or mist before the wind. And "what shall it proE2 44 PIIAYEHS. fit me, if I gain the whole world, and lose my own soul ? Or what shall I give in exchange for my soul ? " Why should I be anxious for perishable objects, in preference to heavenly treasures ? Never, O... | |
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What shall it profit me, if I gain the whole world, and lose my own soul ? or what shall I give in exchange for my soul ? Every thing else is comparatively nothing. 
