And then that degenerated for there were many reprovers who were not genuine. ❋ Unknown (2006)
And afterwards were those who reproved for the sake of heaven; and then that degenerated and there were many reprovers for the sake of heaven. ❋ Unknown (2006)
This shall have from every one, even the reprovers of vice, the title of living well. ❋ Unknown (1909)
Calvin, like English Version, translates, "masters" that is, self-constituted censors and reprovers of others Jas 4: 12 accords with this view. ❋ Unknown (1871)
At Romfrey Castle he fell upon an audience that became transformed into a swarm of chatterers, advisers, and reprovers the instant his lips were parted. ❋ George Meredith (1868)
Church by the power of the Nonconformists 'antipathy to religious establishments and endowments, and see whether what our reprovers beautifully call ministering to the diseased spirit of our time is best done by the Hellenising method of proceeding, or by the other. ❋ Matthew Arnold (1855)
And therefore impatient reformers, and denouncing preachers, and hasty reprovers, and angry parents, and irritable relatives generally fail, in their several departments, to reclaim the erring. ❋ Albert Pike (1850)
They are bound, in faithfulness to their commission, to mix even among the worst of men; not, indeed, as companions, but as instructors, reprovers, and guides. ❋ 1808-1892 (1848)
The inspired interrogatory, "thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself?" enforces this principle; and the maxim of common sense, that "reprovers must have clean hands," is no less unequivocal. ❋ Catharine Esther Beecher (1839)
Abolitionists are reprovers for the violation of duties in the domestic relations. ❋ Catharine Esther Beecher (1839)
Abolitionists are men who come before the public in the character of reprovers. ❋ Unknown (1837)
Men see also how ill it has fared with such as have presumed to be free with the grandees of the world, in point of reproof and animadversion: they have been rewarded with frowns, sharpness, and disdain, and sent away with dejected countenances; as if the reprovers themselves had been the persons in fault. ❋ 1634-1716 (1823)
Those that will be faithful reprovers have need to be firm as fortresses. ❋ Unknown (1721)
Nazarites (as appears by Amos ii. 11), and, as reprovers by office, were concerned to keep at the utmost distance from the sins they reproved in others; yet there were many of them ensnared in this sin. ❋ Unknown (1721)
See how base wicked people are, who bear ill-will to those who, out of good-will to them, seek to save their souls from death; and see what need reprovers have both of courage to do their duty and of prudence to avoid the snare. ❋ Unknown (1721)
It is common for sinners, when they are justly reproved by their ministers, to appeal to their neighbours, and because they know no ill of them, or will say none, or think well of what the prophets charge them with as bad, fly in the face of their reprovers: In all my labours (says Ephraim) they shall find no iniquity in me that were sin. ❋ Unknown (1721)
And those that will not hear of their faults from God's prophets, that are reprovers in the gate, shall be made to hear of them from conscience, which is a reprover in their own bosoms that will not be daunted nor silenced. ❋ Unknown (1721)
When it is here said, They have no delight in the word, more is implied than is expressed; "they have an antipathy to it; their hearts rise at it; it exasperates them, and enrages their corruptions, and they are ready to fly in the face and pull out the eyes of their reprovers." ❋ Unknown (1721)
examples :
girl : Blondes have more fun than nerds
nerd: prove it
girl : Paris hilton and all those other [blondies]
girl : disprove that
nerd: dis-reprove it
girl : ? ? ?
nerd : AHA! [you cant do that] can you
nerd : AHAHAHAHAHAHA [I WIN YOU LOSE]
girl : ... ❋ Roflberry (2009)
