 Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.  The Christian Observer - Page 231812Full view - About this book
 | William Romaine - Christian life - 1821 - 282 pages
...thee — and from others, that whereas they would speak against thee as an evil doer, they may, by thy good works which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation. Aim at this. Look at no motive to do good to men below the glory of God. And remember, thy doing it... | |
 | W. F. LLOYD - 1822 - 178 pages
...God and recommend religion ? Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles, that whereas they speak against you as evil doers, they may by your...shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation. (1 Pet. 2, 12.) XXIII. DILIGENCE AND IDLENESS. Duty of diligence—Its advantages—Commands against... | |
 | E. J. Burrow - 1822 - 606 pages
...glory of God. 1 Pet. ii. 12. Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles : that whereas they speak against you as evil doers, they may by your...shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation. Deut. vi. 13. Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name. Jer. iv.... | |
 | Episcopal Church - 1822 - 444 pages
...having your conversation honest among the Gentiles ; that whereas they speak against you as evil-doers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation. Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake ; whether it be to the king, as supreme... | |
 | Arminianism - 1826 - 918 pages
...Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles : that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation." (1 Peter ii. 12.) " Ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands ; that, if any obey not the word,... | |
 | George Hay (bp. of Daulis.) - 1822 - 402 pages
...whereas they speak against you as evil doers, considering you by your good works, they may give glory to God in the day of visitation .... for so is the will of God, that, by doing well, ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men," 1 Pet. ii. 11, 15. St. Paul also... | |
 | Church of England homilies - 1822 - 568 pages
...that are sent of him for the punishment of evil-doers, but for the cherishing of them that do well. For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may stop the mouths of ignorant and foolish men : as free, and not as having the liberty for a cloak of... | |
 | Church of England - Ecclesiastical law - 1822 - 606 pages
...that are sent of him for the punishment of evil-doers, but for the cherishing of them that do well. For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may stop the mouths of ignorant and foolish men: as free, and not as having the liberty for a cloak of... | |
 | Noah Worcester, Henry Ware - 1822 - 506 pages
...words of St. Peter in the second chapter of his first epistle, are strikingly explicit and forcible. For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may ptit to silence the ignorance of foolish men. In the early ages of christianity, they, who were, by... | |
 | Arminianism - 1839 - 1092 pages
...religious character ; — " having your conversation honest among the Gentiles : that whereas they speak against you as evil doers, they may by your good works," — your obedience and order — " which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation."... | |
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