...be contentious, no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness to all men. 3. For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, spiteful, and hating one another. 4. But when that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward...

...renouncing all dependence upon themselves, rely on divine mercy alone for pardon and salvation : — " For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient,...man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy, he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and the renewing...

...was "by nature born in sin;" that he, like others, was "sometime foolish, disobedient, deceived;" " but after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour...man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his great mercy, he saved us by the washing of regeneration, and renewing...

...proportion, more evil than good — no proof of love in God, who is " no respecter of persons." iii. 3. " For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient,...malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. 4. But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, 5. Not by works of...

...12 Lorsque je t'aurai envoyé Artémas, ou Tychique, hâte-toi shewing ail meekness imto ail men. 3 For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient,...malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. 4 But after that thé kindness and love of God our Saviour toward mail appeared,' 5 Not by works of...

...which we have done," does not mean only works of the ceremonial law. It appears by the third verse, " For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient,...malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another." These are breaches of the moral law, that the apostle observes they lived in before they were justified...

...we ourselves were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, &c. But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour...man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration and renewing uf the...

...seen, it is amply supported. In a passage lately referred to, St Paul says expressly, that " after the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us" — 'i<ruw rifiZi: — brought us into the Christian...

...any scandalous way. These thoughts are an evidence of a rotten heart ) Tit. iii. 3. " We ourselves were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving...pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hatinir one another." If a man allows himself, though he thinks be doth not, in malice and envj , be...

...be no brawlers, but gentle, showing all " meekness unto all men : for we ourselves were some" time disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and "...malice and envy, hateful, and " hating one another:" and should have lived, died, and perished most justly, as " vessels of wrath fitted for de" struction;"...