 | John Owen - Puritans - 1826 - 676 pages
...our own insufficiency, earned prayers for a supply of this wisdom are required in us. ' If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of- God, who giveth to all men liberally and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him ;' James i. 5. There is both a precept and apromise to... | |
 | Theology - 1826 - 478 pages
...not humbly seeking the guidance of the Holy Spirit in their researches arter truth. " if any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men liberally and upbraideth not ; and it shall be given him," is the direction and the promise given to all who... | |
 | Rev. Tomas Scott (Rector of Ashton Sandford, Bucks.), Thomas Chalmers - Christianity - 1826 - 592 pages
...passage, as I remember, which made me suspect that I might be wrong, was James i. 5. " If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him." On considering these words with some attention, I became... | |
 | Susan Huntington - Christian life - 1826 - 428 pages
...hindrances, and all our efforts; who knows all our weaknesses, and discouragements; and who has said, "If any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth liberally, and upbraideth not." Our discouragements often result from the belief that our difficulties... | |
 | Nathaniel Lardner - 1827 - 546 pages
...conducive to our real happiness. And we are introduced to recollect here what St. James says, i. 5, " If any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men liberally and uphraideth not. And it shall be given to him." And see ver. 17. 2. Matt. iv. 1, " Then was Jesus... | |
 | John Bird Sumner (abp. of Canterbury.) - Festival-day sermons - 1827 - 494 pages
...fault of man : that it may be as universal as the offer of pardon or the call to repentance : for " if any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men liberally:" " every one that asketh, receiveth, and he that seeketh, findeth, and to him that knocketh, it shall... | |
 | Gerard Thomas Noel - Sermons - 1827 - 604 pages
...to him for instruction. The encouragement is similar to that afforded by St. James^ when he says, " If any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God who giveth to all men liberally and upbraideth not." He does not reproach for past ignorance, nor despise the feeble efforts, nor overlook... | |
 | John Angell James - Children - 1827 - 196 pages
...nature of true piety, and to dispose you to embrace it. This is the way appointed by God to obtain it. " If any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him." " If ye, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto... | |
 | Christian life - 1827 - 418 pages
...finally led to the fountain head to ask wisdom of Him with whom wisdom dwells; and who has said, " If any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all liberally and upbraideth not." May " William" go and do likewise, and he shall have to say with me,... | |
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If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him. 
