Bible Dictionary: Truth: Ministers should Approve Themselves By

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2 Corinthians 4:2
But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
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2 Corinthians 6:7,8
By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
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2 Corinthians 7:14
For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spoke all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth.
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Of the Teachers and Ministers of the Church. Their Election and ...
... was pleased to shed the light of his truth in greater ... man so account of us, as of
the ministers of Christ ... it was expressly provided that no one should assume a ...
/.../calvin/the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 3 of the teachers.htm

God Willing that all Men Should be Saved.
... would not have given charge to his ministers to tender ... of eternal punishment, is
to deny the most obvious truth. ... To suppose that he should hate and forbid sin ...
/.../lee/sermons on various important subjects/sermon xvii god willing that.htm

The First Epistle. To all the Ministers of the Church Catholic.
... To All the Ministers of the Church Catholic. ... Be ye, according to the voice of Truth,
wise as serpents ... already mentioned is given, lest these too should be made ...
//christianbookshelf.org/unknown/the decretals/the first epistle to all.htm

The Praise of Men.
... hatred; did it prefer goodness and truth to gifts ... offices of teachers or of God's
ministers, they generally ... We must submit (should it be unavoidable) to appear ...
/.../newman/parochial and plain sermons vol vii/sermon iv the praise of.htm

Men Often Highly Esteem what God Abhors.
... But let one of these ministers send his saw to be ... The truth is, they call that religion
in a layman which ... it strange that a man so like Christ should have no ...
/.../finney/sermons on gospel themes/xxi men often highly esteem.htm

Good Earnests of Great Success
... I tell you, sirs, he can find ministers for his truth ... to get into my own soul, then
I should preach indeed ... churches there are which have proved the truth of what ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 14 1868/good earnests of great success.htm

Evidences of Regeneration.
... It should always be borne in mind that the love ... they only hate God, and Christians,
and ministers, and revivals ... admit to these sinners the real truth, and then ...
/.../finney/systematic theology/lecture xxix evidences of regeneration.htm

An Account of the Several Annual Conferences, and of the General ...
... Holy Ghost," and "needed not that any one should teach them ... But on this vital point
the Methodist ministers bent their ... and as a leader into all truth, it was ...
/.../chapter 3 an account of 2.htm

Spiritual Culture.
... existence that his decorum will be so influenced by the power of divine truth that
all ... He says that the ministers of God should approve themselves by "much ...
//christianbookshelf.org/orr/the gospel day /chapter xi spiritual culture.htm

Human Characters Determined Only by Divine Decision.
... man so account of us as of the ministers of Christ ... is the Lord""his judgment is
according to truth" that will ... We should be so too"should study to acquaint ...
/.../sermons on various important subjects/sermon xv human characters determined.htm