Sentences with phrase «about godliness»
Such hidden insights are best left to God's welfares and out of the minds of us insolence oriented benefactors who knows nothing about Godliness tributes!
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It is written; «If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness»
The reason why I (and potentially many other non-believers) react with cynicism and hostility to stories like this is that they demonstrate how very different the actions of the church are from the claims it makes about itself: infallibility, benevolence, selflessness, and godliness.
Oh wait, didn't the apostle Paul have something to say about this guy with having a form of godliness but being arrogant?
Those who wrote them, being believers, theologians, and preachers themselves, were seeking to make God and godliness known to their original envisaged audience, and the first question to be asked about each book has to do with what its writer saw it as saying and showing about God himself.
1Ti 6:3 If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, [even] the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; 1Ti 6:4 He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, 1Ti 6:5 Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.
By «Word of God» I mean God's own self - declaration and message about the way of godliness - worship, obedience, and fellowship in God's family - that Jesus Christ made known to the world.
Reading Old Testament books in the light of this principle, which was long ago expressed in the jingle «the New is in the Old concealed, the Old is in the New revealed,» I find in their teaching about God and godliness a significance which a Jewish colleague would miss.
This speaks volumes about the remarkable wisdom, resourcefulness, courage, and godliness it would take to teach and lead in such times, and says a lot about the value God places on women even when the world does not.
We are the food - chains topmost consumers and yet we jostle about in rudiments of trivial consternations regarding whose Godliness ideals are better than others» Godliness ideals!
For every 100 individuals out there who professes to believe in God, about 5 can truly show me godliness!
«O lord I thank you that I was born in the west for what I have learned from other cultures of the world about community and spirituality that I might take back to my own culture that has now a spirituality that though giving off a pseudo-Christian form of godliness often lacks any real power, masking arrogance and making it difficult to follow you.
The world has evidently forgotten about cleanliness» relationship with godliness.
Yet even Christian singles worry about being physically attracted to their potential partners when all the other «pieces» of godliness and faith in Scripture.
He's sent to one of those gleaming ziggurat - like megastructures, where a tech tycoon (Jared Leto, acting up a storm behind cloudy contacts) likes to talk about his own godliness.