| 1803 - 572 pages
...lies upon it. Then will you experience* to your extreme affright, the truth of what the Saviour lays, that it will profit a man nothing to have gained the...Raise yourselves from the earth ; rend yourselves from the dominion of sordid pleasures. Avail yourselves of the gracious dispositions of God through... | |
| Robert Pedder Buddicom - 1826 - 488 pages
...one mighty interest, and they will be found wanting. Alas ! What shall it profit a man if he shall have gained the whole world, if he lose his own soul ; or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul ? I grant, that many considerations may press themselves upon your... | |
| Stephen Jenner - Christianity - 1854 - 402 pages
...for it is one of Christ's own deep-thoughted remarks, " What shall it profit a man, though he gain the whole world, if he lose his own soul ; or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?" When he came, then, into our world, he came not for such comparatively... | |
| Neil Smith - Bible - 1871 - 244 pages
...confidence. What need have all such to lay Christ's warning to heart, " What shall it profit a man to have gained the whole world, if he lose his own soul." We know that the love of money was at the root of the greatest act of guilt which was ever perpetrated... | |
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