 | 1799 - 98 pages
...be often overlooked, but it is nevertheless true. " Them that honour me," says God, " I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed," 1 Sam. ii. 30. There is, therefore, great encouragement to the young, both as it regards this world and the next,... | |
 | ...dishonoring God and his holy institutions.' ' The contrast contained in the words is striking, •' Them that honor me I will honor, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed." To honor God is to walk so as to please him, to pay a sincere and constant regard to the communications... | |
 | Richard Steele - 1807 - 223 pages
...may live, &c. Deut. xxx. 11, 20. " The Lord GOD of Israel saith, them that honour me, I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed, 1 Sam. ii. 30. "Only fear the Lord, and serve him in truth with all your heart ; for consider how great things he... | |
 | William Jay - 1808
...operations of his grace, in dispensing honor he always observes a rule, and he has told us what it is—" Them that honor me, I will honor, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed." " Therefore hath the Lord recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808
...before me for ever : but now the Lord saith, Be it far from me ; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed ; 1 Sam. ii. 30. God meant the honour of the priesthood to the family of F.li : but what! was it in so absolute terms,... | |
 | Carl Heinrich von Bogatzky - 1828
...; Nor ever may we parted be TUi I become one sp'rit with thee. Them thai honour me, I will honour; and they that despise me, shall be lightly esteemed, 1 Sam. ii. 30. 'J'ms is part of the prophet's message to Eli, when he honoured his sons above God ; he had indeed... | |
 | William Oldys, John Malham - 1810
...end bishops. For it is of them especially, that God saith, ' Them, that honour me, I will honour ; and they, that despise me, shall be lightly esteemed,' 1 Sam. ii. 30. If a minister he truly worthy and honourable, he shall be honoured. All right esteeming men, if there,... | |
 | Harleian miscellany - 1810
...pastors and bishops. For it is of them especially, that God saith, 'Them, that honour me, I will honour ; and they, that despise me, shall be lightly esteemed,' 1 Sam. ii. 30. If a minister be truly worthy and honourable, he shall be honoured. All right esteeming men, if there... | |
 | Edward Davies - 1811
...the poor. (Prov. xiv. 31.) And the Lord himself has declared — Them that honour me, I will honour; and they that despise me, shall be lightly esteemed. (1 Sam. ii. 30.) But, because the nature of man is such that he cannot be, at all times, steadily attached to his duty by... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811
...be not glorified by us, we shall surely be debased by him ; " for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed," 1 Sam. ii. 30; or, as the Saviour says, " Whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased, and he that shall humble... | |
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Be it far from me; for them that honor me I will honor, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed. 
