| William Jay - Devotional literature - 1812 - 284 pages
...no man deceive himself. Jf any man among yon " seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become n " fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this " world is foolishness with God. For it is written he " taketh the wise in their own craftiness. And again, " the Lord knoweth... | |
| Missions - 1858 - 778 pages
...of preaching to save them that believe.' ' Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool that...wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. And again, The Lord knoweth... | |
| 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... | |
| Missions - 1838 - 716 pages
...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)... | |
| Bible - 1815 - 294 pages
...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 Bates - Presbyterianism - 1815 - 530 pages
...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;... | |
| 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 - 292 pages
...hath been his counsellor? Rom. xi. 33, 34. 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. 1 Cor. iii. 18. . * For if a man thinketh himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth... | |
| Joseph Priestley - Theology - 1786 - 526 pages
...C. xv. p. 237. (P.) t Aia ran ev yfuju; «fw%ix»? oM^-^aa-i. L. i. C. ip 32. (P.) among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise." He seems to allude to their pretended spirituality and refinement, when he says, ver. 1, • 1 could... | |
| Thomas Chalmers - Astronomy - 1817 - 298 pages
...been his counsellor ? — Rom. xi. 33, 34<. 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. — 1 Cor. iii. 18. For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.... | |
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