 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,...  Select British divines, ed. by C. Bradley - Page 109edited by - 1821Full view - About this book
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1808 - 514 pages
...And the life, which I now live in thp flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of Go4' Phil. iii. 7, 8. 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 cf Christ Jesus my Lord, and do count them but dung that... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Thomas Scott - Religion - 1808 - 586 pages
...their sins have been. 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... | |
 | Samuel Stillman - Baptists - 1808 - 428 pages
...concerning zeal, persecuting the ehurch ; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless. But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Tea, doubtless, and I count all things but lots for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 582 pages
...the prescriptions of the law, as that no man could tax me for the breach or violation thereof. III. 7 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. But those things, which, while I was a Jew, I accounted as rare and excellent prerogatives, those now,... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 550 pages
...which neither can be decayed by time, nor altered with cross events ! Hear the Chosen Vessel : What things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ: yea, doubtless, I count all things but loss, for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord ; for whom... | |
 | 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. Yea, doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ my Lord ; for whom I have suffered the... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1810 - 502 pages
...of the law: for " by the works of the law shall no flesh be just i" fied." (Gal. 5i. 15, 16.) "What things were " gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. " Yea, doubtless, and 1 count all things but loss " for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ " Jesus my Lord; for whom... | |
 | James Macknight - Bible - 1810 - 566 pages
...continued a Pharisee. But lie relinquished them, when he became a Christian, as lie informs us, ver. 7. 7 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. 8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus... | |
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