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geneva@Romans:9:32 @ Wherefore? Because [they sought it] not by faith, but as it were by the (note:)Seeking to attain righteousness, they followed the law of righteousness.(:note) works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;

geneva@Romans:12:16 @ [Be] of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of (note:)There is nothing that disrupts harmony as much as seeking glory, when every man detests a base estate, and ambitiously seeks to be exalted.(:note) low estate. Be not Do not be puffed up with an opinion of your own wisdom. wise in your own conceits.

geneva@1Corinthians:1:20 @ Where [is] the wise? where [is] the (note:)Where are you, O you learned fellow, and you that spend your days in turning your books?(:note) scribe? where [is] the You that spend all your time in seeking out the secret things of this world, and in expounding all hard questions: and thus he triumphs against all the men of this world, for there was not one of them that could so much as dream of this secret and hidden mystery. disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

geneva@1Corinthians:10:33 @ Euen as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine owne profite, but the profite of many, that they might be saued.

geneva@Philippians:2:1 @ If (note:)A most earnest request to remove all those things, by which that great and special consent and agreement is commonly broken, that is, contention and pride, by which it comes to pass that they separate themselves from one another.(:note) [there be] therefore any consolation in Any Christian comfort. Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any If any seeking of inward love. bowels and mercies,

geneva@1Thessalonians:2:7 @ But we were (note:)We were rough, and yet easy and gentle as a nurse that is neither seeking glory, nor covetous, but who takes all pains as patiently as if she were a mother.(:note) gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:

geneva@1Timothy:3:1 @ This (note:)Having completed the treatise of doctrine and of the manner of handling of it, as well also of public prayer, he now in the third place comes to the persons themselves, speaking first of pastors, and afterwards of deacons. And he uses a preface, so that the church may know that these are certain and sure rules.(:note) [is] a true saying, The office of bishop, or the ministry of the word is not an idle dignity, but a work, and that an excellent work: and therefore a bishop must be furnished with many virtues both at home and abroad. Therefore it is necessary before he is chosen to examine well his learning, his gifts, his abilities, and his life. If a man He does not speak here of ambitious seeking, of which there cannot be a worse fault in the Church, but generally of the mind and disposition of man, prepared and disposed to help and edify the Church of God, when and wherever it will please the Lord. desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.