 | Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 614 pages
...Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house. 14 The beginning of strife is at when one letteth out water : therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with. 15 He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to... | |
 | Nathaniel Lardner - Dissenters, Religious - 1815 - 616 pages
...shame," ch. xii. 1G. If any •difference happen, drop it again as soon as you recover your temper. " The beginning of strife -is as when one letteth out water : therefore leave oft' contention, before it be meddled with," ch. xvii. 14. You are not to break with a friend for a... | |
 | Church of England, Sir John Bayley - 1816 - 738 pages
...a fool in his folly. 13. "Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house. 14. The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out...therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with. 15. He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination... | |
 | George Horne, William Jones - Theology - 1818 - 604 pages
...time) upon the truth of the wise man's aphorism, and the excellency of the advice grounded upon it: " The beginning of strife "is as when one letteth out...leave " off contention before it be meddled with." They plainly discerned, that he who said, " Let every soul " be subject unto the higher powers," understood... | |
 | Henry Fowler (dissenting minister.) - 1818 - 206 pages
...signalizing thyself as a Polemic, than spend thy time and breath in beating the wind of -rror: Tlie beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water...therefore leave off' contention before it be meddled with. 69. TWENTY-THIRD PSALM PARAPHRASED. 1. JEHOVAH's my Shepherd and he Avill proride, No covenant mercy... | |
 | George Horne (bp. of Norwich.) - 1818 - 600 pages
...time) upon the truth of the wise man's aphorism, and the excellency of the advice grounded upon it: " The beginning of strife "is as when one letteth out water; therefore leave " oft' contention before it be meddled with." They plainly discerned, that he who said, " Let every... | |
 | Henrietta Maria Bowdler - 1819 - 270 pages
...even when you are sure that you are in the right ; for they may lead another to be in the wrong. " The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out...leave off contention before it be meddled with."* When the moment of anger is over, how often are we ashamed to think of the trifles for which we have... | |
 | Theology, Doctrinal - 1819 - 488 pages
...sacrifices with strife". Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly b. The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water; therefore leave off contention before it is meddled withc. He loveth transgression, that loveth strife; and he that hath a froward heart, findeth... | |
 | George Holden - Bible - 1819 - 538 pages
...than a fool in his folly. 13 Whoso rewardeth evil for good, Evil shall not depart from his house. 14 The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water ; Therefore before contention be meddled with dismiss it 15 He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth... | |
 | George Lawson - Bible - 1821 - 480 pages
...although they lived in constant disobedience to the will of God, as far as nature discovered it. Ver. 14. The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out...therefore leave off contention before it be meddled with. No creatures are more dangerous than fire or water, when they become masters instead of servants to... | |
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The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water; therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with. 
