 | 1840 - 644 pages
...being free, is "Christ's servant. 23 « Ye are bought with a price ;* be not ye the servants oj men. 24 Brethren, >» let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God. 25 Now concerning virgins ° 1 have no commandment of the Lord : yet I give my judgment, as one that*... | |
 | Thomas C. Thornton - 1841 - 358 pages
...called being a servant," (a slave) "care not for it, but if thou mayest be free, use it the rather." "Brethren, let every man wherein he is called, therein abide with God." Eph. vi, 5, and other texts quoted by the doctor, we have quoted already, or they may be seen by a... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1841 - 372 pages
...Rosenmüller, Grotius, and some others, however, think that price ; be not ye the servants of men. 24 Brethren, let • every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God. a ver.17,20. 25 Now concerning virgins I have no commandment * of the Lord ; yet I give my judgment,... | |
 | Charles Colcock Jones - 1842 - 306 pages
...called being free, is Christ's servant. Ye are bought with a price, be not ye the servants of men. Brethren, let every man wherein he is called, therein abide with God." Besides the general and special influences of the Gospel now adverted to, safety will be connected... | |
 | Edward O'Brien (barrister-at-law.) - 1842 - 330 pages
...we withdraw our bounden service from the commonwealth." See Bishop Sanderson's Sermon on the text, " Brethren, let every man wherein he is called therein abide with God." 1 Cor. vii. 27. " I confess it is a very sad consideration to see how much men abuse their callings,... | |
 | Readings - 1843 - 80 pages
...inevitably lead us to this conclusion." Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called : " Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God," — are precepts little attended to in the present day. To live decently and comfortably in our first... | |
 | John Bird Sumner - 1843 - 562 pages
...23. Ye are bought with a price ; be not ye the servants of men. 7 Rom. ii. 28. s Heb. viii. 10. 24. Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God. He thus warns servants (ie slaves) against any false impression they might naturally receive concerning... | |
 | William Burkitt - 1844 - 862 pages
...being free, is Christ's servant. 23 Ye are bought with a price ; be not ye the servants of men. 24 Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God. The apostle seems to intimate from these words, that some persons converted to Christianity in the primitive... | |
 | London St. Giles, Cripplegate - 1844 - 638 pages
...for them : God sees your condition to be better for you ; it is the station wherein God sets you : " Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God." (1 Cor. vii. 24.) Your station in the world is not so high as others', and your distractions in the... | |
 | Samuel R. Fisher - 1844 - 364 pages
...his station and calling, as willingly and faithfully as the angels do in heaven. 1 Cor. vii. 24— Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God. Eph. iv. 1 — I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation... | |
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For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant. 23 Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men. 24 Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called,... 
