 | Eliza Buckminster Lee - 1851 - 514 pages
...Christ. If others neglect the Bible, or speak lightly of it, O, do not you! Remember who has said, " What shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul ? " ' 1 find you have a desire, my little daughter, to attend the dancing-school ball, and... | |
 | John Rogers Pitman - 1852 - 496 pages
...esteemed. And who would continue in a practice that brings with it neither pleasure nor advantage ? Indeed, what shall it profit a man to gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ? But it is still worse to lose his soul for nothing. In all other offences, men aim at some... | |
 | 1852 - 626 pages
...delight. I •would rather die unto Jesus Christ than to reign unto the utmost bounds of the earth, ' for what shall it profit a man to gain the •whole world and lose his soul ?' Him I seek who died for us. Him I desire who rose again for us." The relation of the Old and... | |
 | Tracts - 1852 - 508 pages
...your souls! Never forget the words of Him who came down from heaven that He might die to save you. " What shall it profit a man to gain the whole world, and lose his own soul, or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul." And if His words make no impression,... | |
 | 1853 - 788 pages
...from the cradle to the grave, nature and God are ever thundering in our ears the solemn question — "What shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul ?" This madness for money ie the strongest and lowest of the passions ; it is the insatiate... | |
 | Ann Taylor - 1853 - 398 pages
...knowledge, by which you are happy or miserable. Jesus Christ knew well the value of the soul, and he says, " What shall it profit a man to gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" Don't then be so foolish; don't think your soul can be lost, and yet that you can be anything... | |
 | Stephen Olin - 1853 - 440 pages
...ambition which has blinded my eyes and brought me to the brink of ruin. I have taken for my motto, " What shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul ?" This, by the grace of God, shall be the guide of my conduct. What, my dear Jackson, do... | |
 | Stephen Olin - 1854 - 380 pages
...ambition which has blinded my eyes and brought me to the brink of ruin. I have taken for my motto, " What shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul ?" This, by the grace of God, shall be the guide of my conduct. What, my dear Jackson, do... | |
 | William Bacon Stevens - 1854 - 418 pages
...is our refuge ?" Why should we apostatize and go back to the world ? The question there meets us, " What shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul ?" What can the world give in barter for your faith ? What will it palm off upon you in lieu... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1854 - 730 pages
...nor anything that belongs to your eternal interest, for any of the advantages of the present life. " What shall it profit a man to gain the whole world, and lose his own soul .' " Remember also the words of the wise man, " He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man... | |
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What shall it profit a man to gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? 
