 | Robert Balfour - 1819 - 228 psl.
...A similar decision is given, 2 Cor. viii. 12. where the apostle declares, that, " if there be first a willing mind, it " is accepted according to that a man hath, and " not according to that he hath hot." This too is the plain import of the direction in his first epistle to the Corinthians, chap.... | |
 | Thomas Brooks - 1820 - 264 psl.
...thou canst, and thou 105 shah find acceptance, with- God. , 2 Cor. viii .12. For if there be first a willing: mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not. The publican's prayer had not much rhetoric or eloquence in it, " God be merciful to me a sinner,"... | |
 | Francis Atterbury (bp. of Rochester.) - 1820 - 358 psl.
...soever, it ventures to pay, in sure confidence that they will be grateful to that Being, which accepteth according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not, 2 Cor. viii. 12. Thus does external adoration become a point of natural homage, due to the supreme Lord of the world,... | |
 | Johnson Grant - 1820 - 476 psl.
...not the law, made a law unto themselves" (Rom. ii. 14); and " a man is accepted according to that he hath, and not according to that he hath not." (2 Cor. viii. 12.) XVIII. Nothing can be too visionary or too absurd for the human mind, when it imps its wings with the... | |
 | 1821 - 506 psl.
...always correspond with, the measure of obligation. The scriptures assure us, that, " If there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not. God requires of men that they should knots him ; and he has endowed them with an understanding capable... | |
 | 1821 - 494 psl.
...marks the smallest offering cast into his treasury, and in whose word it js written, 'If there he first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.' The wnrk is not done, nor will it soon he finished. It will not he complete •even when the hundreds... | |
 | American Bible Society - 1838 - 1038 psl.
...the smallest offering cast into his treasury, and in whose word it is written, " If there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not." The work is not done, nor will it soon be finished. It will not be complete even when the hundreds... | |
 | David Daniell - 1995 - 488 psl.
...a readiness to will, even so ye may perform the deed, of that which ye have. For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not. It is not my mind that others be set at ease, and ye brought into cumbrance: C but that there be egalness... | |
 | Chappell, Paul - 1995 - 332 psl.
...willing heart. The offering should come from within the heart of every believer. "For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not" (II CorinA Christian thians 8:12). In the New Testa, / .//. ment age, Christians are to must be willmg... | |
 | Oliver O'Donovan, Joan Lockwood O'Donovan - 1999 - 868 psl.
...the view of the Apostle on this subject, when in 2 Corinthians 8:12 he said: "For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath" — "accepted," that is, meritorious. [15] Moreover, if this choice to be lacking in temporal goods... | |
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For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not. 
