 | Andrew Fuller - 1837 - 118 psl.
...warned, admonished, and entreated sinners to repent and believe ; to believe while they had the light ; to labor not for the meat that perisheth, but for that which endureth unto everlasting life ; to repent, and be converted, that their sins might be blotted out ; to come to the marriage supper,... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1838 - 268 psl.
...such sacrifices thou art well pleased. May they cease to do evil and learn to do well ; and labour not for the meat that perisheth, but for that which endureth unto everlasting life. CREATION. Great Builder of the Universe, in the beginning thou didst make the heaven and the earth... | |
 | 1838 - 320 psl.
...such sacrifices thou art well pleased, May they cease to do evil and learn to do well ; and labour not for the meat that perisheth, but for that which endureth unto everlasting life. CREATION. Great Builder of the Universe, in the beginning thou didst make the heaven and the earth... | |
 | John Wesley - 1840 - 566 psl.
...the sinners, angry at the sin. Thus be thou " angry, and sin not !" 9. Now do thou hunger and thirst, not for " the meat that perisheth, but for that which endureth unto everlasting life." Trample under foot the world, and the things of the world ; all these riches, honours, pleasures. What... | |
 | Francis Charles Massingberd - 1842 - 458 psl.
...death nor feared his might, but was as merry as one bound towards heaven ; adding this text, " Labour not for the meat that perisheth, but for that which endureth unto life everlasting." Now again she was taken before Bonner, and the wretched Shaxton also was brought... | |
 | 1849 - 908 psl.
...without delay, the voice of the living preacher, calling upoh men to think of a better country, and to labor not for the meat that perisheth, but for that which endureth unto everlasting life. Two things are already ascertained to the satisfaction of the Committee, respecting missions to that... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1856 - 652 psl.
...indicates that life in such cases is more than mere existence. Thus, in John vi, 27, our Lord teaches : " Labor not for the meat that perisheth, but for that which endureth to everlasting life ;" and, (verses 47, 50, 51,) "He that believeth on me hath everlasting life." —... | |
 | 1856 - 652 psl.
...indicates that life in such cases is more than mere existence. Thus, in John vi, 27, our Lord teaches : " Labor not for the meat that perisheth, but for that which endureth to everlasting life ;" and, (verses 47, 50, 51,) " He that believeth on me hath everlasting life."... | |
 | Daniel Bagot - 1844 - 356 psl.
...blessed Saviour uniformly conveys the same ideas — " Strive to enter in at the strait gate ; " " Labour not for the meat that perisheth, but for that which endureth unto everlasting life." — Verily, the acquisition of holiness, and the attainment of genuine happiness, require the most... | |
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The church does work for eternity, and thus obeys him who commands us to " labor not for the meat that perisheth, but for that which endureth unto everlasting life. 
