 | Samuel Miller, Princeton Theological Seminary - 1812 - 128 pagina’s
...make a sacrifice of his own reputation for learning, and refinement, at the foot of the cross : and to count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ his LORD. Gospel simplicity and sincerity, shall then be preferred by the Man of God, to all the soaring... | |
 | Samuel Miller, Princeton Theological Seminary - 1812 - 134 pagina’s
...make a sacrifice of his own reputation for learning, and refinement, at the foot of the cross: and to count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ his LORD. Gospel simplicity and sincerity, shall then be preferred by the Man of God, to all the soaringflights... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Thayer - 1819 - 230 pagina’s
...so to show me my perishing condition, destitute of a Saviour, that I became in good earnest willing to " count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ." I no longer halted between the desire of saving my soul, and the fear of being thought singular. I no... | |
 | 1821 - 506 pagina’s
...so to show me my periling condition, destitute of a Saviour, that I became in good earnest willing to " count all things but loss, for the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ." The vanities of time and sense faded in my view, and my heart unceasingly cried — " God be merciful... | |
 | Moses Stuart - 1824 - 448 pagina’s
...him, down to the present day. They have been ready to cry, with Thomas, " my Lord, and my God ;" with Paul, to " count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus ;" and with Stephen, full of the Holy Ghost, to cry, " Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." These persons... | |
 | Edward Craig - 1828 - 378 pagina’s
...readiness to give up every thing which seems opposed to the complete sanctification of the soul ; — " to count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ ;" and to lie, in all the abjectness of moral penury, at the foot of the Redeemer's cross, waiting... | |
 | John Johnston - 1834 - 582 pagina’s
...on learning the extent of the sacrifices which discipleship sometimes requires, you have been taught to " count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus ;" and that, rather than " go away" from such a Master, and renounce his service and his favour, you... | |
 | History - 1839 - 286 pagina’s
...the Divine attributes enforces ? Not assuredly, to make human science the great object of life; but to " count all things but loss, for the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ our Lord." To contemplate Him as the great and only Redeemer—to trust entirely in his mediation—to... | |
 | M. N - 1840 - 220 pagina’s
...talent at the foot of the cross. She had been much in the school of affliction, where she had learned to count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ. This humble Christian felt an earnest desire to bring her youthful charge to the knowledge of her beloved... | |
 | Alfonso Maria de' Liguori (st.) - 1846 - 310 pagina’s
...doth corrupt," — Here the poor may find " the pearl of great price," — Here the wise will learn " to count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ our Lord," — and the simple and ignorant may be " made wise unto salvation through faith which is... | |
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Paul, to count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ. 
