 | 1827 - 524 pages
...derided him. And he said unto them ; Ye are they which justify yourselves before men ; but God knovveth your hearts ; for that which is highly esteemed among men, is abomination in the sight of God. The law and the prophets were until John ; since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every... | |
 | Henry March - 1827 - 374 pages
...because done with a design " to have glory of men." Nay, further, " he said unto them, Ye are they who justify yourselves before men ; but God knoweth your hearts ; for that which is highly esteemed amongst men is abomination in the sight of God." What a picture is presented here of men, who, while... | |
 | John Platts - 1827 - 688 pages
...Pharisees also, who were 'covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him. 15 And he said unto them, Ye are they which "justify yourselves before men; but God 'knoweth your hearts: for k that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God. 16 'The law and the prophets... | |
 | William Dodd - 1828 - 522 pages
...servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, &c. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Ye are they which justify yourselves, before men ;...knoweth your hearts : for that which is highly esteemed amongst men, is abomination in the sight of God. — Luke xvi. 13.15. Jesus saw Nathanael,&c. and saith... | |
 | 1828 - 828 pages
...derided him. 15 And he said unto them. Ye »re they which justify yourselves before men ; but God knowelh your hearts : for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God. 16 The law and the prophets were until John : since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Sermons, English - 1828 - 400 pages
...unnecessary preciseness. God judgeth not as man, by outward appearances, but with righteous" judgment: " That which is highly esteemed among men, is abomination in the sight of God." And he will make you then to judge of yourselves as he hath jirdged you. Though wisdom now be justified... | |
 | James Nourse - 1829 - 292 pages
...were covetous, heard all 14 Pharisees. these things, and they derided him. And he said unto 15 them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men ;...esteemed among men, is abomination in the sight of God. The law and the prophets were until John : 16 since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every... | |
 | John Everitt Good - Sermon on the mount - 1829 - 692 pages
...additional instance of the opposition between the general maxims of the world, and the spirit of the gospel. "That which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God,"* said our Lord to the Pharisees. The proposition may be also reversed ; for, according to the divine... | |
 | William Jay - Meditations - 1829 - 592 pages
...instead of being injured by the trial, deriving improvement, and lustre, and usefulness from it. But, as that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God ; so that which is approved and commended of God is undervalued and despised by men. The world, therefore,... | |
 | Thomas Griffith - Sermons, English - 1830 - 518 pages
...to them. " Ye are they which justify yourselves before men,"—which gain from men applause,—"but God knoweth your hearts : for that which is highly...esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God." And in all things without exception, men's judgments must be far below that which God regards and will... | |
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And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God. 
