Sentences with phrase «as sheep among wolves»
Jesus taught nonviolence when he said, «I send you out as sheep among wolves.»
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He would go as a sheep among the wolves, straight into prison.
This approach betrays the Christ who taught his followers to go into the world as sheep among wolves to bless rather than to dominate.
Not exact matches
«Here, but yet to come» exemplifies the tension, as does Jesus» advice to his disciples to be sheep among the wolves and to have the wisdom of the serpent and the innocence of the dove.
The pre-exilic prophets were already speaking of the judgment to fall «in the latter days» as one in which the God of Israel «will be judge between nations, arbiter among many peoples» 8 and where the divine judgment would result in a new kind of world in which «the wolf shall live with the sheep, and the leopard lie down with the kid; the calf and the young lion shall grow up together, and a little child shall lead them».9
Emily Blunt, Sicario — Blunt anchors this riveting, intelligent action movie that has more on its mind than simple thrills with her committed performance as an FBI agent who finds herself the sheep among wolves that include CIA agent Josh Brolin and mysterious contractor Benicio Del Too when she joins them in the US / Mexico border war against drugs.