 | Favell Lee Mortimer - 1838 - 336 pages
...xxi. 14. 45. What God thinks of the prayers of wicked people, who are not really sorry for their sins, The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord ; but the prayer of the upright is his delight. — Prov. xv. 8. 46. The thing that God cares for in people. The Lord seeth not as... | |
 | 1838 - 1196 pages
...is trouble. 7 The lips of the wise disperse knowledge : But the heart of the foolish doeth not so. 8 they pitched : as long i-ч his delight. 9 The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the LORD : But he loveth him that... | |
 | William Cogswell - Theology - 1838 - 188 pages
...Christ. — Prov. viii. 33 — 35. Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not. Blesssacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord; but the prayer of the upright is his delight. (a) Rev. iv. y — 11. And when those beasts give glory, and honor, and thanks to him... | |
 | Religious Tract Society - Bible - 1838 - 1128 pages
...from the gross practice. Sin, regarded in the heart, will spoil the comfort and success of prayer ; for the sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord. But if the feeling of ein in the heart causes desires to be rid of it ; if it be the presence of one urging... | |
 | Bible - 1839 - 1060 pages
...much for the sake of tranquillity. Bp. Patrick. 3. The eyes of the Lord &c.] A continual sense of 8 e The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD : but the prayer of the upright is his delight. 9 The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the LORD : but he loveth him that followeth... | |
 | 1839 - 498 pages
...offered a burnt-offering" (1 Sam. xiii. 12). And Solomon unites both in a passage already cited : " The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord; but the prayer of the upright is his delight" (Prov. xv. 8 ; 2 Mac. i. 28, 29). And in the New Testament St. Paul calls upon us "... | |
 | Thomas Mann - Prayer - 1840 - 282 pages
...is in me. Psalm vii. 8. If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me. Psalm Ixvi. 18. The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord ; but the prayer of the upright is his delight. Prov. xv. 8. The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination : how much more when he bringeth... | |
 | Christian life - 1840 - 638 pages
...manner:" that is, in the spirit of adoption, and this we find they did. The prayer of the unregenerate is an abomination to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright is his delight. If a man have a praying heart he does not need a book ; and if he have not a praying... | |
 | John Rogerson Cotter - 1840 - 316 pages
...religion, without that sincere and vital holiness of heart which can alone recommend them to God ; for the sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, — v. 8. 16. After he had spoken to the Scribes and Pharisees, to whom did he next address himself?... | |
 | John Gibson MacVicar - 1840 - 396 pages
...against it. Cain was a revengeful and a murderous man. No wonder, therefore, his offering was rejected. " The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord."* But let us not dwell too long on this most interesting page of sacred history. Ere we leave it, however,... | |
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The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD; but the prayer of the upright is his delight. 
