...truth. These things are not easily borne with a becoming temper: but remember it is written, " The servant of the Lord must not strive ; but be gentle unto all men; apt to teach, patient; in meekness inDirecting those that oppose themselves ;" — 2 Tim. ii. 34 — 26. Keep the lovely example...

...general. St. Paul, speaking more especially of those who are in the ministerial office, says : " And the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves, if God peradventure will give them repentance...

...may be kept out of the hands of Christian Teachers. What a strange comment on those words — " The " Servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all " men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing them that " oppose themselves," — is a bishop sitting in judgement on faithful...

...depart from the line marked out by the precept and .example of his Master. He continued to bless Ihcm that persecuted him; knowing that the servant of the...in meekness instructing those that opposed, if God peradventure might give them repentance to the acknowledging' of the truth. But, before we take a final...

...warfare are not 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...

...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 unto all men, apt to teach, patient; in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God pcradventurc wjll give them repentance...

...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 unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves." ~2 Tim. ii. 24, 25. While she continued to laugh...

...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 unto all men, apt to teach, patient. In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves, if God peradventnre will give these repentance...

...think of the direction the apostle Paul gave to a zealous minister, 2 Tim. ii. 24 — 26. " And the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves ; if God peradventure will give them repentance,...

...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 unto all men, apt to teach, patient : in meekness instructing those, who oppose themselves, if GOD peradventure will give them repentance...