Man: Cannot Profit God

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Job 22:2
Can a man be profitable to God, as he that is wise may be profitable to himself?
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Psalm 16:2
O my soul, you have said to the LORD, You are my Lord: my goodness extends not to you;
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Of the Setting of Man's Life
... God and to his own profit and the profit of his ... be strong that will manfully use
the love of God. ... enfeebled with great disease ofttimes a man cannot pray, and ...
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How God Has Shown his Omnipotence in his Birth in Time as Well as ...
... for you afflict Me?" [2603] If then we cannot think that ... with a few loaves, nor did
the blind man receive his ... did not refuse for the succour and profit of men? ...
/.../cassian/the seven books of john cassian /chapter iv how god has.htm

Showing How Some Men Live Contrary to These Exercises
... a man has always himself and his own profit in mind. ... So, when a man possesses the
natural rest in bare vacancy ... disobedient in his self-will, he cannot be united ...
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Man's Passions and God's Purpose
... which has also an eye to business, and makes a profit out of a ... a true faith in God
would have warranted; and we cannot but see ... 'Whatsoever a man soweth, that ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture k/mans passions and gods purpose.htm

God's Barriers against Man's Sin
... always been a loss to him; he has never found any profit, but has ... God saith that
the sea can be tamed with sand; but the heart of man cannot be restrained ...
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Meditations of the Misery of a Man not Reconciled to God in Christ ...
... What profit have I now of all my pride, fine house ... my evil deeds, will accuse me,
and I cannot excuse myself ... Cursed be the man that shewed my father, saying, "A ...
/.../bayly/the practice of piety/meditations of the misery of.htm

Profit and Loss
... Now, I have only cast up accounts for this life; but what will it profit a man,
when he comes to ... cannot thy bags of gold ferry thee across the Jordan ... What, man! ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 2 1856/profit and loss.htm

That the Grace of Devotion is Acquired by Humility and Self-Denial
... Whosoever therefore shall have lifted up his will unto God with singleness of ... And
the more perfectly a man forsaketh things which cannot profit, and the ...
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Of the Decrees of God.
... No, for they cannot, though they would; he chains them ... all the world should conspire
as one man to obstruct ... into the particulars of them, but to profit by them. ...
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Faith Without Works is Dead, and Cannot Save a Man.
... Chapter 67."Faith Without Works is Dead, and Cannot Save a Man. ... dead, being alone."
[1217] The same apostle says again, "What doth it profit, my brethren ...
/.../augustine/the enchiridion/chapter 67 faith without works is.htm