| William Shewen - Conscience - 1830 - 208 pages
...thee ; as the apostle Paul witnessed, when he said, Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh, for his body's sake, which is the Church, Col 1.24. And whereas thou accusest the author of the book intituled, Tlie great mystery of... | |
| Asa Cummings - 1830 - 530 pages
...crown, he could appropriate the language of Paul — / now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh, for hit body's sahe, which is the church. Portland, Aug. 8, 1810. ' My dearest Sister, ' I have nothing... | |
| John Davenant, Josiah Allport - Bible - 1831 - 642 pages
...concerning these three arguments with which the Colossians are excited to constancy. Verses 24, 25. Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and jill...that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in myjiesh, for his body's sake, which is the Church : Whereof I am made a minister according to the dispensation... | |
| Edward Irving - Bible - 1831 - 510 pages
...church's weal, saying with St. Paul (Col. i. 24), " Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh, for his body's sake, which is the church." For knowing how God loved Christ, how God was one with Christ, how the unity of their substance... | |
| 1831 - 524 pages
...enable each member to say to his fellow-members, " I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh, for his body's sake, which is the church. . . .Christ in you the hope of glory" (Col. i. 24, 27). But if in the early days such were... | |
| Robert Mackenzie Beverley - Bible - 1831 - 68 pages
...Church. St. Paul, in a memorable passage, says : ' I now rejoice in my ' sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the ' afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the ' Church,' (Col. i. 24.) — a passage that teaches us more than one important truth — that the whole... | |
| William Paley - Theology - 1831 - 624 pages
...the Gospel. " Whereof I Paul am made a minister; who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh, for his body's sake, which is the church " Col. ch. i. 24. " If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable,"... | |
| George Fox - Society of Friends - 1831 - 466 pages
...and unblamable in his sight. And the apostle said, ' I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh, for his body's sake, which is his church, warning and teaching every man in all wisdom, that I may present every man perfect in Christ... | |
| John Davenant, Josiah Allport - Bible - 1831 - 656 pages
...have to Christ through sufferings and afflictions, conveyed in these words which immediately follow. And Jill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my body^ In this place the conjunction serves instead of a causal particle. For the Apostle is giving... | |
| Thomas Erskine - Salvation - 1831 - 274 pages
...Christ living in us. And thus he who could say, " I fill up that which is behind of the sufferings of Christ in my flesh, for his body's sake, which is the church," said also, " I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth... | |
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