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Put Yourselves in Upright Condition

{The Application

Application for the Godly

Directions for Carrying On a Constant Holy Course of Life

Put Yourselves in Upright Condition}


Beloved, if you will observe the former rules well, what remains will be easier and I will need to say less. Put yourselves in an upright condition, especially concerning your own persons. Keep your hearts with all diligence. Look well to your own ways. “But each one must examine his own work, and then he will have reason for boasting in regard to himself alone, and not in regard to another” (Galatians 6:4 NASB). Keep a strict and severe eye on yourselves; hold a strict hand on yourselves. Be more severe toward yourselves than toward all the world. It is an ill sign to see professors of Christianity severely observing, imposing upon, and censuring others, while being more remiss toward themselves. Be more just, unwilling to find fault, and charitable toward others, but exercise more severity at home.


In putting yourselves in an upright condition, take great care that you:



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