 | Thomas Bissland - 1835 - 438 pages
...conviction, " that God is no respecter of persons ;" that not among the Jews only, but that in every nation, " He that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of him." That the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, was the great sovereign disposer of all events—the father... | |
 | Jacob Abbott - 1835 - 388 pages
...the Lord and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God for he will abundantly pardon." " In every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness, is accepted of him." But the difficulty is, that, widely extended as the gates of salvation are, and simple as is the entrance,... | |
 | John Wesley - 1836 - 582 pages
..." rich in mercy to all that call upon him," according to the light they have ; and that " in every nation, he that feareth God and worketh righteousness, is accepted of him." 4. But to return. This is the nature of that love, whereof the apostle is here speaking. But what are... | |
 | Thomas Myers - 1836 - 252 pages
...and Early Progress of Christianity. — Encyc. Metrop. t Acts xi. 19. he only perceived that in every nation, " he that feareth God and worketh righteousness, is accepted of Him." Yet strange as the admission of the devout Gentiles to equal privileges with the children of Abraham... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet (bp. of Salisbury.) - 1837 - 642 pages
...them. St. Peter said to Cornelius,' Of a truth I perceive 85. that God is no respecter of persons; but in every nation he that feareth God, and worketh righteousness, is accepted of him.' Those places seem to import, that those who make the best use they can of that small measure of light... | |
 | James Wood - 1907 - 152 pages
...shows Him as no respecter of persons, and leads up to the perception of this truth, that " in every nation, he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of Him " (Acts x. 25). It is not a Jew's book merely, but "all men's book," not indeed to the exclusion of... | |
 | Washington Gladden - 1908 - 240 pages
...the love and service of man. We believe the Scripture ' Of a truth God is no respecter of persons, but in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of him.' We come together in mutual confidence and respect, without the least surrender or compromise of anything... | |
 | Arba Nelson Waterman - 1908 - 638 pages
...love and service of man. We believe the Scripture that 'of a truth God is no respecter -of persons, but in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of Him.' "The program of this General Parliament of Religions directly represents England, Scotland, Sweden,... | |
 | B. L. - 1908 - 144 pages
...and shall sit down in the Kingdom of God ' (Luke xiii. 26, 27, 29) ? God is no respecter of persons, but in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted with Him ' (Acts x. 34-35). ' Even so, Faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone ' (Jas. ii.... | |
 | James Drummond - 1908 - 568 pages
...world, that he will have all men to be saved, that he has made all men of one blood, and that in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of him. In accordance with these great sayings, which signified the breaking down of Jewish exclusiveness,... | |
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God is no respecter of persons, but in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of Him. 
