 | William Jay - Meditations - 1829 - 538 pages
...conscience will thereby be destroyed. Such was the example of Paul : yea, and of Christ also — " Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification : for even Christ pleased not himself ; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached... | |
 | Religion - 1829 - 396 pages
...death. And when he would enforce the same lesson on the church at Rome, he employs the same argument ; " Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification ; for even Christ pleased not himself." So, likewise, when he would stir up the Hebrew Christians to... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - Theology - 1830 - 722 pages
...are strong, ought to bearRom.\<r.\ the infirmities of the weak, and not to please our- *' selves : let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification; for even Christ pleased not himself, (he adjoineth the great example of our SERM. Lord to enforce his... | |
 | John Stedman - 1830 - 364 pages
...which a selfish man never could or would have made. "Christ, says the Apostle, pleased not himself;" "Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good, to edification." The true patriot is the true Christian. At the call of his holy religion, he ; is not only ready for... | |
 | William Jay - Christian life - 1830 - 302 pages
...different are the conditions, the habits, the principles, the tempers of men! And who was it that said, " Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification?" And did not his own example enforce his advice? " Though I be free from all men, yet nave made myself... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Theology - 1830 - 560 pages
...— We then that are strong, ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification." (Rom. xiv. 1, 2, 8tc. ; xv. 1, 2.) " Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual... | |
 | British preacher - 1831 - 756 pages
...themselves agreeable to others by the display of every social virtue, but, as St. Paul expresses it, " Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification :" and when addressing the saints at Thessalonica, he says, " Wherefore, comfort yourselves together,... | |
 | William Jay - Families - 1833 - 518 pages
...of: may our liberty never prove an occasion to the flesh, but by love may we serve one another. May every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification. May we attend not only to what is essential in our religious character, but what is ornamental. May... | |
 | Francis Gastrell - Bible - 1832 - 330 pages
...another, to provoke unto love and to good works ; and so much the more, as we see the day approaching. " Let every one of us please his neighbour, for his good to edification, not seeking our own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved. For even Christ pleased... | |
 | John Locke - Bible - 1832 - 468 pages
...1 We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. 2 Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification. 3 For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached... | |
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We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification. 
