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2 Corinthians 1:12
For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
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The Epistle to the Colossians Time the Criterion of Truth and ...
... destroy the wisdom of the wise." [6085] Thanks to this simplicity of truth, so opposed
to the ... at the same time) "vainly puffed up in the fleshly mind, and ...
/.../tertullian/the five books against marcion/chapter xix the epistle to the.htm

The Promises of the Law and the Gospel Reconciled.
... One Apostle cannot be opposed to another ... is this, the testimony of our conscience,
that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by ...
/.../calvin/the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 17 the promises of.htm

Faustus Denies that Manichæans Believe in Two Gods. Hyle no God. ...
... although your heresy teaches you a fleshly abhorrence of ... minds should be corrupted
from the simplicity and purity ... of darkness, whom no one opposed, whose reign ...
/.../faustus denies that manichaeans believe.htm

The Sermon on the Mount - the Kingdom of Christ and Rabbinic ...
... despair of self); and again, Jewish as opposed to New ... by the Spirit, is written on
the fleshly tables of ... the light of God in genuine, earnest simplicity, to be ...
/.../the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter xviii the sermon on.htm

Book Six Turmoil in the Twenties. ...
... faith, but against the fables of fleshly imagination ... be believed, and not have
insultingly opposed it as ... great plainness of its language and simplicity of style ...
/.../augustine/confessions and enchiridion/book six turmoil in the.htm

Self-Denial
... the prince of the world, or our own fleshly mind ... that it is, of all others, most
opposed by numerous ... brethren, (more or less beguiled from the simplicity of the ...
/.../wesley/sermons on several occasions/sermon 48 self-denial.htm

Justification by an Imputed Righteousness;
... be tried, and justified or condemned, is opposed to the ... Satan, unscriptural, and
contrary to the simplicity and design ... he preached not only the 'wisdom of God ...
/.../justification by an imputed righteousness.htm

The Return to Capernaum - Healing of the Centurion's Servant.
... Mother and brethren' [2589] seems rather opposed to the ... It is not Israel, but Israel's
fleshly claims and ... that faith which in deepest simplicity realises, and ...
/.../edersheim/the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter xix the return to.htm

Faustus Rejects the Old Testament Because it Leaves no Room for ...
... the message of the true God, as opposed to thy ... who, to remove the vanity of the fleshly
mind, rose in a ... also should be corrupted from the simplicity and purity ...
/.../faustus rejects the old testament.htm

A Preservative against Unsettled Notions, and Want of Principles ...
... O Christian simplicity, whither art thou fled ... rest in Christ; notwithstanding the
derision, fleshly persuasion, ill ... perfection, that unless I had opposed him, I ...
/.../a preservative against unsettled notions.htm

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