Strife: Ministers should Reprove

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1 Corinthians 1:11,12
For it has been declared to me of you, my brothers, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.
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1 Corinthians 3:3
For you are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are you not carnal, and walk as men?
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1 Corinthians 11:17,18
Now in this that I declare to you I praise you not, that you come together not for the better, but for the worse.
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Library

Of Evil-Speaking in General.
... Secondly, likewise ministers, in the taxing sin and ... allowed elsewhere; every good
Christian should avoid him ... Hence strife, clamour, and tumult, care, suspicion ...
/.../barrow/sermons on evil-speaking by isaac barrow/of evil-speaking in general.htm

Sunday after Ascension Day
... But from such a proceeding only strife and disquietude ... absolution; if I admonish,
comfort, reprove; I can ... We his ministers should be conscious"and the people ...
/.../luther/epistle sermons vol ii/sunday after ascension day.htm

Of the Right of Bishops not to be Accused or Hurt by Detraction.
... may God forbid), then an accusation should be laid ... thee with all thy strength, and
forsake not His ministers. ... no claim for ourselves through strife or vainglory ...
//christianbookshelf.org/unknown/the decretals/ii of the right of.htm

"Having Begun in the Spirit"
... that every day all their life should be lived in ... how much there is very often of
strife among the ... will be sought after, but because ministers and congregations ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/murray/absolute surrender/having begun in the spirit.htm

The Spirit not Striving Always.
... For there can be no strife unless there be resistance ... a real mercy to the sinner,
that God should withdraw His ... But when God's ministers come to the souls of men ...
/.../finney/sermons on gospel themes/xvi the spirit not striving.htm

The Life of Mr. Robert Garnock.
... it is not for you to cast at ministers: you know ... that ever I was born a man of strife
and contention ... adding that these whom they once thought should or would ...
/.../howie/biographia scoticana scots worthies/the life of mr robert 7.htm

Psalm VI.
... judge: but what is done by His ministers, in that ... to the day of judgment; that he
should rather be ... tables and houses and cities, with no strife arising between ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/exposition on the book of psalms/psalm vi.htm

Scriptures Showing the Sin and Danger of Joining with Wicked and ...
... not for all that go out hastily to strife, till, 1 ... A man should not seek honour and
preferment that is ... Verse 8 speaks sadly against ministers that withdraw from ...
/.../binning/the works of the rev hugh binning/section v scriptures showing the.htm

Scriptural Christianity
... can ever be heard among them, no strife of tongues ... not prevail with us, even though
they should really convince ... us?" And hath he "made us able ministers of the ...
/.../wesley/sermons on several occasions/sermon 4 scriptural christianity.htm

The Letter of the Church of Rome
... at the altar, after the high priest and the ministers mentioned have ... 2Let him say:
"If it is my fault that revolt, strife, and schism ... No one should resent it ...
/.../richardson/early christian fathers/the letter of the church.htm

Subtopics

Strife

Strife: A Work of the Flesh

Strife: Abimelech's

Strife: An Evidence of a Carnal Spirit

Strife: Appeased by Slowness to Anger

Strife: Between Abraham and Lot's Herdsmen

Strife: Christ, an Example of Avoiding

Strife: Christians at Antioch (In Syria), About Circumcision

Strife: Corinthians

Strife: Danger of Joining In--Illustrated

Strife: Difficulty of Stopping, a Reason for Avoiding It