The Social Reformer's Bible

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: I, 17-19. good and gentle, but also to the froward. For this is acceptable, if for conscience toward God a man endureth griefs, suffering wrongfully. I Peter ii, 18-19. (R.v.) Servants, obey in all things them that are your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but in...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: I, 17-19. good and gentle, but also to the froward. For this is acceptable, if for conscience toward God a man endureth griefs, suffering wrongfully. I Peter ii, 18-19. (R.v.) Servants, obey in all things them that are your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing the Lord: whatsoever ye do, work heartily, as unto the Lord, and not unto men; knowing that from the Lord ye shall receive the recompense of the inheritance: ye serve the Lord Christ. Colossians iii, 22-24. (R.v.) Wages and Recompense. The labourer is worthy of his hire. Luke x, 7. (a.v.) Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. Deuteronomy xxv, 4. (R.v.) I Timothy v, 18. (r.v.) I, 20-22. 20. It is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. Is it for the oxen that God careth, or saith he it altogether for our sake ? Yea, for our sake it was written: because he that ploweth ought to plow in hope, and he that thresheth, to thresh in hope of partaking. I Corinthians ix, 9-10. (r.v.) The husbandman that laboureth must be the first to partake of the fruits. Consider what I say; for the Lord shall give thee understanding in all things. II Timothy ii, 6-7. (r.v.) (Paul). Am I not free? .... My defence to them that examine me is this. Have we no right to eat and to drink? ... I and Barnabas, have we not a right to forbear working ? What soldier ever serveth at his own charges ? . . . . Who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock ? I Corinthians ix, 1, 3, 6, 7. (h.v.) chapter{{Section 4I, 23-25. Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them ...