 | Robert Murray M'Cheyne - Sermons, Scottish - 1847
...men — striving if, by any means, he might commend the truth to their consciences. " For (saith he) whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God ; or whether we be sober, it is for your cause." — Verse 13. Whether the world think us wise or mad, the cause of God and of human souls is the cause... | |
 | Joseph Benson - Bible - 1847
...behalf, that ye may have somewhat to answer them which glory 2in appearance, and not in heart. 13 For p whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God : or whether we be sober, it is for your cause. 1 Job xxxi. 23 ; Hebrews x. 31 ; Jade 23. » Chapter iv. 2. • Chap. iii. 1. " Chap. i. 14. ' Or.... | |
 | John Stow - 1847
...behalf; that we may have somewhat to answer them, which glory in appearance, and not in heart : for ` $- CBUS«. GOD is A GOD of Knowledge, of Purity, and of Power. To escape from His Judgment is impossible,... | |
 | Saint John Chrysostom - Bible - 1848 - 363 pages
...appearance of piety and of venerable seeming, whilst of good works they were destitute. [2.] Ver. 13. For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God; or whether we be sober, it is for your cause. And if, saith he, we have uttered any great thing, (for this is what he here calls being beside himself,... | |
 | 1848 - 431 pages
...behalf, that ye may have somewhat to answer them which glory in appearance, and not in heart. 13 For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God : or whether we be sober, it is for your cause. 14 For the love of Christ constraineth us ; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were... | |
 | Fathers of the church - 1848
...the Apostle himself ascending and descending in one and the same sentence ; For whether, saith he, we be beside ourselves, it is to God; or whether we be sober, it is for your cause. What is, we are beside ourselves? That we see those things which it is not lawful for man to speak.... | |
 | Alfred Barry - Philosophy - 1848 - 29 pages
...reverent apprehension of our insignificance in the presence of Almighty God. The second is this : " For whether we be beside ourselves it is to God : or whether we be sober it is for your cause."f And this is sobriety of action with a view to one's neighbor and brethren : restraint, imposed... | |
 | Charles Benjamin TAYLER - English fiction - 1848 - 305 pages
...their natural blindness, may rail at him as such. No, he would say to such men, and to all men : ' Whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God ; or whether we be sober, it is for your sakes.' He, and all those who are no longer in darkness, but are children of the light, and messengers... | |
 | Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.) - Bible - 1848 - 1288 pages
...place the Apostle himself ascending and descending in one and the same sentence; For whether, saith he, we be beside ourselves, it is to God; or whether we be sober, it is for your anise. What is, we are beside ourselves? That we see those things which it is not lawful for man to... | |
 | Jean Calvin - 1849
...If one died for all. This design is to be carefully kept in 1 " The Apostle, in these words — For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God, or whether we be sober, it is for your cause, (2 Cor. v. 13,) defends his speaking so much of his integrity. Though some men would count him out... | |
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For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God ; or whether we be sober, it is for your cause. 
