 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord : for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung,...  Second Advent Library - Page 531842Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Scott - 1808 - 586 pages
...sins have been. ''1•' Hence it is that St. Paul uses such decisive language on this subject : " What things were gain " to me, those I counted loss for Christ : yea, " doubtless and I count all things but loss for the " excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus " my Lord, for whom I have suffered... | |
 | Charles Buck - Christian ethics - 1808 - 332 pages
...With what a noble triumph' does he declare to the Philippians the effects of his conversion ! " What things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea, doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I haye suffered the... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1809 - 612 pages
...our Lord Jesus Christ, by •whom the world is crucified unto me and I unto the world." Again, " What things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ....count them but dung, that I may win Christ and be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which -U. through the... | |
 | David Simpson - Apologetics - 1809 - 410 pages
...eyes, to the utmost of my power; and what things were gain tome formerly, these things I now count loss, for Christ: yea, doubtless, and I count all...account them but dung, that I may win Christ, and be found in him, not having my own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith... | |
 | Carl Heinrich von Bogatzky - 1828 - 436 pages
...like Joseph cast, How archers shot and grieved the* ; | And rais'd, like him, a Prince at lajt. What things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ ; yea, doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the... | |
 | Atonement - 1811 - 410 pages
...God forbid," says he, " that I should glory save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ." And again, " But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss...for Christ. Yea, doubtless, and I count all things but loss, Sec. that I may win Christ, and be found in him, not having mine own righteousness which... | |
 | William Warburton, Richard Hurd - Theology - 1811 - 514 pages
...the Hebrews ; as touching the Lau\ a Pharisee; concerning zeal, PERSECUTING THE CHURCH; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless. But...were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. [Phil. iii. 4.] Here he glories in the action, as plainly meritorious. And so indeed it was in a Jew,... | |
 | Samuel Hopkins - Millennium (Eschatology) - 1811 - 506 pages
...admitted into the school of his Lord and Master ; which he expresses in the following words. " What things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea, doubtless, and I count all things but loss^or tlie excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord : That / may know him," fcfc.... | |
 | Thomasen Head - Children - 1811 - 48 pages
...Nothing but Christ could satisfy my restless soul. «. I can sincerely say with the Apostle — "What things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. — Yea, doubtless, and I count all things but loss, for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord." I am infinitely more desirous... | |
 | J S. Pipe - Christianity - England - 19th century - 1813 - 646 pages
...the complete renovation of our nature. It was this which made the apostle of the Gentiles say, " What things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ....count them but dung, that I may win Christ, and be found in him, not having my own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith... | |
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