| 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 Bates - Presbyterianism - 1815 - 530 pages
...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;... | |
| 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
...Or who 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
...L. iii. 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
...who 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 think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.... | |
| Thomas Chalmers - Astronomy - 1817 - 290 pages
...Or who hath been his counsellor?—Rom. xi. 33, St. 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... | |
| Thomas Chalmers - Astronomy - 1817 - 294 pages
...Or who 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 lie may be wise. 1 Cor. iii. 18. For if a man thinketh himself to be something, when he is nothing,... | |
| George Burder - 1817 - 320 pages
...for, saith St. Paul, in the 18th verse of this chapter, — " If any man among you seemeth to be wiM in this world, let him become a fool that he may be wisej that is, if he seems to have a large stock of worldly wisdom, let him renounce it all as insufficient... | |
| Josiah Conder - 1818 - 316 pages
...of the Apostles, St. Paul, in his emphatic style, thus expresses himself: " If any man among " you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him " become a fool, that he may be wise." In this consisted the only danger of misinterpretation, the pride of wisdom, the want of simplicity... | |
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