Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not reprovable; not deserving reproof; without reproach; not liable to be justly censured. Also spelled
unreproveable .
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unreproveable .
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Examples
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"unreprovable" marks them out as still wavering, and liable to reproof.
NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians Editor 1889
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He knows that Christ is concerned in his honour, that his name be not evil spoken of by reason of him; that he is concerned in love to his soul, having that design upon him to "present him holy, and unblamable, and unreprovable in his sight,"
Of Temptation 1616-1683 1967
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God, be kept unblameable and unreprovable before Him.
Regeneration Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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Jesus Christ, who shall confirm you unreprovable in the day of our Lord
NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians Editor 1889
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"Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be unreprovable."
NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians Editor 1889
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Yet notwithstanding, the persons of believers being accepted through Christ, their good works also are accepted in him, [1504] not as though they were in this life wholly unblamable and unreprovable in
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And we believe that persons thus entirely sanctified may, by the power of God, be kept unblameable and unreprovable in His sight. '
Standards of Life and Service Thomas Henry Howard 1886
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The end of His reconciling atonement by death. holy -- positively; and in relation to God. unblamable ... unreprovable -- negatively.
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Emilia, guide her still forward in the Paths of Virtue, defend her from the Insolence and Wrongs of this undiscerning World; at length when we must no more converse with such Purity on Earth, lead her gently hence innocent and unreprovable to a better Place, where by an easie Transition from what she now is, she may shine forth an
The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700
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See Colossians 1: 22 'in the body of his flesh,' saith he, 'to present you holy and unblameable, and unreprovable in his sight.'
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 John Bunyan 1658
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