 | John Wesley - 1809 - 512 pàgines
...enforced in the morning those words of St. Paul, (worthy to be written in the heart of every believer) All things are lawful for me; but all things are not expedient. And in the evening that necessary advice of our Lord, That men ought always to pray, and not to faint.... | |
 | 1810 - 578 pàgines
...deprived of our Christian or civil liberty; which the apostle expresseth, 1 Cor. vi. 12, in these words: 'All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient; all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.' If, in the circumstances... | |
 | William Oldys, John Malham - 1810 - 574 pàgines
...edification is expressed by the same apostle, in the same chapter, verses 23, 524, in these words, 'All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient. All things are lawful for me, but all things edify not. Let. no man seek his own, but every one that... | |
 | Edward Davies - 1811 - 438 pàgines
...themselves, lest they should offend the conscience of their weaker brethren. And in this sense the apostle says — All things are lawful for me ; but all things are not expedient : all things are lawful for me ; but all things edify not. And he has laid it down as a general rule,... | |
 | 1815 - 358 pàgines
...concluded, " though my instantaneous death was to follow." Mrs. Delvayne thought with the apostle, ' All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient.' And when she found Zeluc-i's thirst for vengeance drew a defence of her rash immature plan out of every... | |
 | David Brown, Charles Simeon - 1816 - 528 pàgines
...repressed than encouraged, and was accustomed to quote as the rule of the christian minister's conduct, " All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient." Hence partly, he restrained every manner of frivolity of pursuit, or levity of conversation, in himself... | |
 | Adam Clarke - 1817 - 746 pàgines
...might innocently eat of those things offered to idols, even in the idol temples, uses these words, All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient. Will any man infer from hence, thai murder, and adultery, and incest were lawful to St. Paul ? Or that... | |
 | 1819 - 656 pàgines
...rather repressed than encouraged, and was accustomed to quote as the rule of the minister's conduct, " all things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient." Hence he controlled the flights of levity in himself and others. He had a strong predilection for children... | |
 | John Bunyan, Robert Hawker - 1822 - 620 pàgines
...all things are pure," it may well be retorted that which the same apostle said in another place, " All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient : all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any thing," 1 Cor. iv.... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - 1822 - 548 pàgines
...order to that end whither their calling is designed. To this sense are those words of St. Paul ; " All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient ;" that is, some things which directly are lawful, by an indirect obligation may become unfit to be... | |
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All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not. 
