 | John Flavel - Presbyterian Church - 1671 - 576 pages
...which we are to walk, is, " If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men. Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath ; for it is written, Vengeance is mine, I will repay it, saith the Lord." Rom. 12 : 18, 19. It is not religion,... | |
 | Jacques Saurin - 1800 - 304 pages
...perfections. God useth his own right when he punisheth sin, agreeably to the doctrine of St. Paul, Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath ; for it is written, vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. What is this wrath, to'which we are... | |
 | John Smalley - Congregational churches - 1803 - 454 pages
...christians, and to guard them against seeking retaliation, or meditating revenge. The whole verse is ; " Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath : for it is written, Vengeance is mine ; I will repay, saith the Lord." It is proposed to show, in the ensuing... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - Reformed Church - 1803 - 422 pages
...perfections. God useth his own right when he punisheth sin, agreeably to the doctrine of St. Paul, Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath ;for it is written, vengeance is mine ; I will repay, saith the Lord. What is this wrath, to which we are... | |
 | Hugh Blair, James Finlayson - Presbyterian Church - 1808 - 486 pages
...overcome by these as to be intent on revenge, his exhortation in the verses preceding the Text is, Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath ; for it is 'written, vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord, Therefore, if thine enemy hunger,... | |
 | Ezekiel Hopkins (bp. of Derry.) - 1809 - 676 pages
...to the sport of abusing us ? A. Private revenge is, in no case whatsoever, to be allowed : Rom. xii. 19. Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves ; but rather give place unto wrath : for it is written, Vengeance is mine : I will repay, saith the Lord. Revenge only belongs to God, and the... | |
 | Church of England - 1810 - 466 pages
...honest in the sight of all men. If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men. Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath ; for it is written, Vengeance is mine ; I will repay, saith the Lord. Therefore, if thine enemy hunger,... | |
 | Daniel McCalla, William Hollinshead - Congregational churches - 1810 - 458 pages
...of society; it will entirely unfit you .for the services of religion, and the enjoyment of God. ft " Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath; for it is written, vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. — Therefore, it, thine enemy hunger,... | |
 | Church of Scotland - Presbyterianism - 1810 - 636 pages
...", and whatsoever else tends to the destruction of the life of any x. Q. 137. Which " Rom. xii. 1 9. Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath : for it is writtun, Vengeance is mine ; I will repay, saith the Lord. n Eph. iv. 31. Let all bitterness,... | |
 | Church of England homilies - 1811 - 716 pages
...in picking of quarrels, and making of froward answers. Now ye shall hear St. Paul's words, saying, ' Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath : for it is written. Vengeance is mine, and I will revenge, saith the Lord. Therefore if thine enemy hunger,... | |
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Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath : for it is written, Vengeance is mine ; I will repay, saith the Lord. Therefore, if thine enemy hunger, feed him ; if he thirst, give him drink : for in so doing thou shalt heap... 
