 | Samuel Hopkins - Millennium (Eschatology) - 1811
...becoming reverence and solemnity ; and carefully avoiding all vain, trifling conversation. " Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but...to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. "f 6. The christian ought to give great and constant attention to his Bible, reading... | |
 | Isaac Watts - 1811
...evil to say of you.' He gives all the Christians at Ephesus the same advice, Eph. iv. 29. * Let no corrupt communication proceed * out of your mouth,...the use * of edifying, that it may minister grace unfo the hear.* ers.J Talk of something that may improve one ano6 Christian Morality, namely, Sermi... | |
 | John Wesley - Methodism - 1811
...time, remember that solemn caution of the Apostle, " Let no corrupt communication [conversation] come out of your mouth : but that which is good to the...edifying, that it may minister grace to the hearers." You have no authority to vary from this rule ; otherwise, you grieve the Holy Spirit of God. And if... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - Congregational churches - 1812 - 374 pages
...all vain and evil speaking, and to converse instructively and profitably on all occasions. "Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but...edifying, that it may minister grace to the hearers." There are a great many christians, who might be extremely useful, if they would aim at edifying, rather... | |
 | John Locke - 1812
...working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth. £9 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but...to the use of edifying ; that it may minister grace unto the hearers. 30 And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God ; whereby ye are sealed unto the day of... | |
 | Jean Frédéric Ostervald - Catechisms, English - 1812 - 216 pages
...of an impure wind, and is a great snare to others. " Let no corrupt conversation (says an apostle) proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good...use of edifying, that it may minister grace to the hear~ ers." Eph. iv. 20. Q. Are thoughts and desires criminal of themselves? ' A. There can be no doubt... | |
 | William Jay - Devotional literature - 1812
..." rometh, what manner of persons ought you to be in " all holy conversation and godliness ! let no corrupt " communication proceed out of your mouth,...which is good to the use of edifying, that it may min" ister grace unto the hearers. If any man offend not " in word, he is a perfect man, and able also... | |
 | Missions - 1813
...church." Aud again — " Let all things be done unto edifying." To the Ephesians he says, " Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but...edifying, that it may minister grace to the hearers." And to the Thessalonians he says — " Com fort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as... | |
 | 1813
...read the verse preceding, and the two verses following the above passage in Ephesians. Let no corrufit communication proceed out of your mouth, but that...to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil ajieaking, be put... | |
 | John Wesley - 1813
...the thing which is good, that S9 lie may have to give to him that needeth. Let no corrupt discourse proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good,...to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace 30 to the hearers. And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye have been sealed unto the day... | |
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Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. 
