Bible Dictionary: The Scriptures: Blessedness of Hearing and Obeying

◄ The Scriptures: Blessedness of Hearing and Obeying ►

Torrey's Topical Textbook

Luke 11:28
But he said, Yes rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

James 1:25
But whoever looks into the perfect law of liberty, and continues therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

Library

The Scriptures Reveal Eternal Life through Jesus Christ
... and a way of attaining eternal blessedness as satisfying and ... some outward privileges
of baptism and hearing the word ... so much have ye profited in the Scriptures. ...
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The Secret of True Obedience.
... It is the joy of ever hearing the Father's voice ... to the disciples in all the Scriptures
the things ... on which God's heart is set, and which alone is blessedness. ...
/.../murray/the school of obedience/iii the secret of true.htm

Character and Condition of the Churches to whom the Epistle was ...
... same character was that dead learning in the Scriptures, such as ... an imaginary claim
on the mere hearing of the ... which no one can ever share in its blessedness. ...
/.../the epistle of james practically explained/ 4 character and condition.htm

Homilies on the Gospel of John.
... the Virgin, [276]91; His perfect knowledge signified by Seeing and Hearing,
[277]92 ... of the Jews' vain repentance, [415]ib.; referred to the Scriptures, [416] ...
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Homilies on Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians.
... God, everywhere called great in the Scriptures, [1500]207 ... share in its troubles is
a blessedness, [1583]186 ... Hearing, quick, should not make men proud, [1636]217. ...
/.../homilies on philippians colossians and.htm

Book Eleven the Eternal Creator and the Creation in Time. ...
... of mine (ardently longing to understand thy Scriptures) are not a ... of one singing
familiar songs, or hearing a familiar ... the reward for which is blessedness; cf. ...
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A Defence of the Doctrine of Justification, by Faith in Jesus ...
... as truth, that religion consists in obeying the orders ... and of this supreme faculty,
the scriptures teach, that ... nature; but it is through the hearing of faith ...
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Christ a Complete Saviour:
... The life, the glory, the blessedness, the soul-satisfying ... calls here an appearing,
Christ calls a hearing, and a ... is plain from a great many scriptures; as that ...
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Paul's Departure and Crown;
... under some smaller pieces of service, as hearing the Word ... and to mind you of some
other scriptures that press it ... shall be also the day of blessedness and rest ...
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A Holy Life the Beauty of Christianity: Or, an Exhortation to ...
... and yet be great for reading and hearing all his ... ask again, wherein dost thou think
the blessedness of heaven ... Besides, other scriptures also confirm this truth ...
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