 | Bible - 1920 - 506 pages
...paralleled in every age of the Christian Church. The " godly " of those epistles, who were given the promise of the life that now is as well as of that which is to come, received its fulfilment in the peacefulness, love, purity, faith, and hope of the Christian... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke - 1921 - 304 pages
...Christian, dear To-day. But your religion will not last unless it works between man and man, 'having the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come.' " "I see what you mean," said the voice of To-day, thoughtfully. "Fewer laws, but wiser and... | |
 | James Henry Snowden - Clergy - 1921 - 132 pages
...and degree, as it preaches and applies the gospel that is profitable for all things and has in it the promise of the life that now is as well as of that which is to come. It is ever the higher that lifts the lower, the soul that transforms and trans%[31] ures the... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke - 1921 - 304 pages
...Christian, dear To-day. But your religion will not last unless it works between man and man, 'having the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come.' " "I see what you mean," said the voice of To-day, thoughtfully. "Fewer laws, but wiser and... | |
 | George Pierce Baker, Henry Barrett Huntington - Debates and debating - 1925 - 638 pages
...applause.] You desire it from the highest motives ; and godliness is profitable in all things, having the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come ; but if there were no hereafter, and if man had no progress in this life, and if there were... | |
 | British and foreign sailors' society - 1843 - 582 pages
...relate to us, merely as beings of this life ; — for " godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is," as well as of "that which is to come." What would you think of the sailor-boy who should stand in the jolly-boat, shaking his fists... | |
 | 1862 - 1124 pages
...Satan, is planted with thorns by God ; whilst in his word it is recorded that " Godliness hath the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come." THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE PRINCE WALES. OF CAIEO TO THK PYRAMIDS. To the unfledged traveller,... | |
 | Zululand missionary assoc - 1881 - 414 pages
...heathen, many of whom I think begin to see in all this upsetment of the country that Christianity has the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come. "It is somewhere over two years since I wrote you the account of the Gaika exodus, which I... | |
 | Gerald Parsons, James Richard Moore - History - 1988 - 562 pages
...are individuals materially prosperous and nations orderly and free. It is thus that religion 'has the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come.' . . . 6. 1 .2 T. WRIGHT ON THE WORKING CLASSES AND THE CHURCH, 1868 The relations, or perhaps... | |
 | Martha Finley - Juvenile Fiction - 1996 - 346 pages
...world compared to the everlasting ages of the one we are to live in the next ? And godliness hath the promise of the life that now is as well as of that which is to come ; there is no real happiness, my child, but in being at peace with God." Grace was now ready... | |
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... godliness hath promise of the life that now is," as well as of that which is to come. 
