...damnation for eternity are at stake. " The servant of the .Lord must not strive, but be gentle to all ; apt to teach ; patient; in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if Godperadventure will give them repentance, to the acknowledging of the truth." "Reprove, rebuke, exhort,"...

...have bound upon his hand, and stamped on his bean, those weighty admonitions of the Apostle. "And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle...meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God pcradventurc wjll give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth. And that they may recover...

...wise, prudish, and squeamish, and what not. But I made no answer, remembering that it is said, " the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle...meekness instructing those that oppose themselves." ~2 Tim. ii. 24, 25. While she continued to laugh at me, two young men belonging to the town, came running...

...carnal, but mighty through God, to the pulling down of strong holds ;" nay, he will find, that " the servant of the Lord must not strive ; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in ineekness instructing those that oppose themselves ; if God peradventure will give them repentance...

...precept and .example of his Master. He continued to bless Ihcm that persecuted him; knowing that the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient. To the last day he spent among them, he went straight forward, in meekness instructing those that opposed,...

...should feel myself exposed to the frown of an offended Master. I know it is his command, that " the servant of the Lord must " not strive, but be gentle unto all men — patient, in meekness " instructing those that oppose themselves." To this command — (a command...

...objector to start an argument, viz. that St Paul, in his second Epistle to Timothy, says, "And the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle...meekness instructing those that oppose themselves, if God peradventnre will give these repentance to the acknowledging of the truth. And that they may recover...

...by it, viz. That a minister should be ready, meekly to condescend to and instruct opposers; And the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all men, apt t<* teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves, if God peradventure will...

...heart : but foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they only engender strife : and the servant of the LORD must not strive ; but be gentle...to teach, patient : in meekness instructing those, who oppose themselves, if GOD peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth....

...clergy towards those that divide from them: The servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle to all men, apt to teach, patient in meekness, instructing those that oppose themselves, if peradventure God will give them repentance, to the acknowledging the truth. This is the passage that...