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
| Gerard Thomas Noel - Sermons - 1827 - 604 pages
...of this chapter, he tells us, with reference to his former observances of the Mosaic law, — " 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... | |
| John Edmund Jones - 1828 - 416 pages
...continue to find the language of St. Paul more and more congenial with the frame of their minds: "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 is ... of God,... | |
| 1828 - 546 pages
...immediately occur to you that we have an example still higher, furnished by St.JPaul. He could say, " 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." 1 will not finish this quotation,... | |
| William Dodd - 1828 - 522 pages
...worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh, &c. 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, &c. that I may know him, and... | |
| James Haldane Stewart - Sermons, English - 1828 - 500 pages
...consequences ; and I have no power to help myself; but I come to thee : my soul casts itself upon thee. " 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 * Co), ii. 10. t Ephes. L 6. Lord :... | |
| Thomas Chalmers - Apologetics - 1829 - 600 pages
...the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee; concerning zeal, persecuting the church ; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless. But...do count them but dung, that I may win Christ." And in his epistle- to Timothy he writes thus: " I thank Jesus Christ our Lord, who hath enabled me, for... | |
| Joseph John Gurney - Apologetics - 1829 - 412 pages
...flesh, I live by faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me :" Gal. ii, 2O. " 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... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1830 - 618 pages
...Hebrews ; as touching the law, a Pharisee ; concerning zeal, persecuting the church ; touching the righteousness, which is in the law, blameless. But...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 is through the... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1830 - 630 pages
...Hebrews ; as touching the law, a Pharisee ; concerning zeal, persecuting the church ; touching the righteousness, which is in the law, blameless. But...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 is through the... | |
| 1830 - 154 pages
...the hierarchy was sure to cover all crimes." How different this, from what Paul felt and taught. " But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss...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 is through the... | |
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