 | William Evans, Thomas Evans - 1838 - 496 páginas
...their very altars, " Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God ?" These love to gather to their own heap, and " sacrifice unto their own net:" they cannot rightly... | |
 | John Pring - 1838 - 588 páginas
...appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart." (Sam. I. xvi. 7.) And sometimes, as our Saviour tells us, " that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination 'in the sight of God." (Luke xvi. 15.) Such an abomination for one, no doubt, is the abuse of this his Son's holy institution.... | |
 | Edward Edwards (Rector of Penegoes.) - 1838 - 372 páginas
...declares, that " they have the nature of sin." And the lips of eternal truth have pronounced that " that which is highly esteemed among men, is abomination in the sight of Godv" * Perhaps, you reply that in addition to external virtues, you have an internal goodness, good... | |
 | John Walker - 1838 - 624 páginas
...eminent possessors — (however it mav offend them) — in the words of that divine declaration — " that which is highly esteemed among men, is abomination in the sight of Gou." Luke xvi. 15, And now, sir, having extricated my assertion from the emharrapsment and ambiguity,... | |
 | Francie Taylor - 2003 - 132 páginas
...not the awe-inspiring condition that the world makes it out to be. Luke 16:15 makes this issue clear: "That which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God." Sexiness is "highly esteemed among men," but it is abhorrent to the Lord. Still, many of our women... | |
 | E. Keith Howick - 2003 - 220 páginas
...derision Jesus said, "Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God" (Luke 16:15). The Pharisees and rulers were the keepers of the Mosaic Law, but they used the Law to... | |
 | Walter Curtis Lichfield - 2004 - 638 páginas
...he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God. 16. The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every... | |
 | Donald R. Holloway - 2004 - 346 páginas
...He said unto them. Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God." Zacchaeus had achieved all these earthly plateaus in his life on earth, yet he was reviled by most... | |
 | Stephen D. Cox - 2006 - 414 páginas
...becomes "a great tree" (Luke 13:18-19). Jesus goes so far in reversing normal priorities as to say that "that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God" (Luke 16:15). Then he enforces that message with the parable of the Pharisee and the publican, in which... | |
 | John Bunyan - 2005 - 968 páginas
...thing for a man's ways to be right in his own eye, and another for them to be right in God's. Often "that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God." Seeing corruption is not yet out of our natures, there is a proneness in us to build (even upon the... | |
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And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men ; but God knoweth your hearts : for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God. 
