| John Locke - 1812 - 516 pages
...of miracles ? SO Have all the gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret ? 31 But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet show I unto you a more excellent way. PARAPHRASE. governors6, and such as are able to speak diversity of .29 tongues. Are all apostles? Are... | |
| Nathaniel Lardner - Dissenters, Religious - 1815 - 616 pages
...workers of miracles? have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret? — Covet earnestly the best gifts : and yet show I unto you a more excellent way," ver. 28 — 31. " Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether... | |
| Charles Bradley - 1822 - 504 pages
...excellent. Gifts are from the Spirit as well as grace, but grace is more excellent than the best gifts ; " Covet earnestly the best gifts, and yet show I unto you a more excellent way," 1 Cor. xii. 31. Hence you read in Phil. i. 10. " Of things that are excellent," or as the original... | |
| John Locke - Bible - 1823 - 474 pages
...miracles ? 30 Have all the gifts of healiog ? Do all speak with tongues ? Do all interpret ? 31 But covet earnestly the best gifts : and yet show I unto you a more excellent way. PARAPHRASE. 29 and such as are able to speak diversity of tongnes. Are all apostles ? Are all prophets... | |
| John Locke - Philosophy - 1823 - 462 pages
...TEXT. 29 Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all workers of miracles ? 31 But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet show I unto you a more excellent way. 30 Have all the gifts of healing ? Do all speak with tongues ? Do all interpret ? PARAPHRASE. 30 of... | |
| Zebulon Ely, Ezra Stiles Ely - 1825 - 64 pages
...me more than all earthly good tilings ? I pray God purify my motives, and convert me anew. June 10. Covet earnestly the best gifts, and yet show I unto you a more excellent way ! I had the gift of preaching, but not the qrace : and I have abundant reason to be thankful to God... | |
| Nathaniel Lardner - 1827 - 638 pages
...workers of miracles? have all the gifts of healing? do all •peak with tongues ? do all interpret ? Covet earnestly the best gifts : and yet show I unto you a more excellent way," ver. 28 — 31. " Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail ; whether... | |
| John Rogers Pitman - 1828 - 620 pages
...received from God, to the public good, and to the glory of their author. ' Covet earnestly,' says he, ' the best gifts ; and yet show I unto you a more excellent way :' — that is ; You may beg of God that he would confer upon you those gifts, which are most useful... | |
| Henry Erskine Head - Sermons, English - 1832 - 218 pages
...abideth in death 1G9 SERMON XVIII. LOVE THE MEANS OF ATTAINING SPIRITUAL GIFTS. 1 COR. xii. 31. But covet earnestly the best gifts : and yet show I unto you a more excellent way 177 SERMON XIX. REMEDIES FOR PRIDE. GALATIANS vi. 14. But God forbid that I should glory save in the... | |
| John Wesley - Methodist Church - 1836 - 550 pages
...Corinthians to desire other gifts besides it ; yea, to desire them earnestly. " Covet earnestly," saith he, " the best gifts ; and yet show I unto you a more excellent jvay," 1 Cor. xii, 31. More excellent than what ? Than the gifts of healing, of speaking with tongues,... | |
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