 | 1830 - 614 էջ
...defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy ; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are. Let no man deceive himself: if any man among you seemeth...world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God : for it is written, He taketh the wise in their... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 568 էջ
...much, is ignorant both of the things which he thinks he knoweth, and of his ignorance. Therefore " Let no man deceive himself: If any man among you seemeth...this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise:'7 (1 Cor. iii. 18:) To be "wise in this world," is the same with that in the words following,... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - 1830 - 484 էջ
...finding outJ For who hath known the mind of the Lord? Or who buh been his counsellor? Rom. xi. 33. 24. Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth...wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may he wise. 1 Cor. ш. 18. For if a man thinketh himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1830 - 592 էջ
...our own natural blindness and folly. There is a treasure of wisdom contained in that one sentence ; If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.* Seeing our own ignorance and blindness, is the first step towards having true knowledge. If any man... | |
 | 1830 - 520 էջ
...weakness of God is stronger than men ;" and by thundering in the cars of audacious pride, " If any man — seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool that he may be wise." II. The same tendency appears in the texture of the Gospel. This is noticed in our text and the preceding... | |
 | Benjamin Keach - 1831 - 228 էջ
...choose to become a fool in the esteem of carnal men, you can never be truly wise. See 1 Cor. iii. 18, " If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool that he may be wise." Let worldly wise men account you a fool; if you are spiritually wise, wise unto salvation, it matters... | |
 | Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 578 էջ
...foolishness unto him ; neither can he know ¡Лет, because they are spiritually discerned. 1 Co. ii. 14. neeled down, and prayed, and turning him to the body,...and she opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter she wi« ; for the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God : for it is written, he Uketh the wise... | |
 | Andrew Coventry Dick, Voluntary Church Association, Edinburgh - 1832 - 166 էջ
...be expedient, that is inconsistent with the intimations of that will. The maxim of the Apostle — " If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool that he may be wise,"* has reference, as appears from the connexion in which it stands, not so much to the duty of an humble... | |
 | George Campbell - 1832 - 320 էջ
...little child, shall not enter therein." The apostle employs a still bolder figure, where he says, " If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise." The third and last quality I shall mention, is patience. Nothing can more endanger our forming false... | |
 | Priscilla Hannah Gurney - 1832 - 450 էջ
...refreshment which comes from the presence of the Lord. How needful then is the apostolic injunction ! " If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool that he may be wise ; for the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God." To become a fool in the signification here... | |
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Let no man deceive himself . If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. 
