Strife: Saints should Submit to Wrong Rather than Engage In

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Proverbs 20:22
Say not you, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save you.
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Matthew 5:39,40
But I say to you, That you resist not evil: but whoever shall smite you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also.
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1 Corinthians 6:7
Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because you go to law one with another. Why do you not rather take wrong? why do you not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?
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Library

Differences in Judgment About Water Baptism, no Bar to Communion ...
... in pieces, or the truly visible saints excluded communion ... before me: 'For where envying
and strife is, there ... A riddle indeed, That the Lord should, without a ...
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Christian Behavior
... Thus you see how wise men and fools, saints and sinners ... The apostle saith, 'That
the wife should submit herself to her ... a thing would it be, if God should use a ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/christian behavior.htm

Of Civil Government.
... To this we may add the examples of saints, some of ... or hatred "far from the ardour
of strife, he is ... and reverence, and that those who rule should, in respect ...
/.../the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 20 of civil government.htm

Regeneration by Faith. Of Repentance.
... law of sin remaining in the saints, the guilt ... not a fictitious representation, of
the strife between the ... were more incongruous than that God should pardon the ...
/.../the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 3 regeneration by faith.htm

Funeral Oration on the Great S. Basil, Bishop of Cæsarea in ...
... that thanks are due, for choosing and making him his comrade in the strife. ... This
was the doing of the God of Saints, Who worketh and ... 4499] And why should not He ...
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To Pammachius against John of Jerusalem.
... zeal for the faith, we are sowing strife, framing a ... what you said nothing about,
that I should hold to ... or other repent, and ultimately reign with the saints. ...
/.../jerome/the principal works of st jerome/to pammachius against john of.htm

The Religious Revolution
... in 1529 put an end to this unholy strife. ... faith, penance, and the intercession of
the saints, formulas were ... was really anxious that a Council should be called ...
/.../chapter ii the religious revolution.htm

A Traveler's Note-Book
... strengthened and ennobled; how in such strife courage and ... in some broad respects
from the saints and sages ... forget her sucking child, that she should not have ...
/.../merriam/the chief end of man/iii a travelers note-book.htm

A Holy Life the Beauty of Christianity: Or, an Exhortation to ...
... or, do you by thus and thus doing submit to the laws ... are the affections and lusts
of the new man in saints. ... can it be that be that is such should depart from ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/a holy life the beauty.htm

Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners Or, a Brief Relation of ...
... their mind: now, having got it off the wrong way, it ... '4. That Christ's flesh and
blood were within the saints. ... the day was yet to come when I should be tempted ...
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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