Sentences with phrase «cited biblical passages»

The most commonly cited biblical passages are Acts 2:31; Ephesians 4:8 - 10; 1 Peter 4:6; and, most importantly, 1 Peter 3:18 - 20.

I cited a biblical passage as evidence, that the Christian god does indeed desire everyone believe in Him.

She quoted Scalia as saying that «we are fools for Christ's sake,» and apparently didn't recognize that Scalia was citing a biblical passage (1 Cor.

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In this work he commented one by one on all his writings, giving details about the date and circumstances of the work, noting places where he had changed his mind, pointing out passages where he got things wrong, for example where he had cited a biblical text from memory and not gotten it correct.

This provocative view is expressed in many biblical passages where God is cited as the direct cause of evil (Ex.

Clinton cited the Scripture Mark 6:30 - 44 - where Jesus instructs his disciples to organize their followers into groups and to feed them with five loaves of bread and two fish - as the central biblical passage of her speech.

If anyone were to read the whole of Lewis's writings with an eye only to discover what biblical passage he most often cites, one would find, I suspect, that it would be «he that loseth his life shall save it.»

Robespierre's address to the Commune of Paris at the convention of 1793 evidences that his Supreme Being also had this same character: «L'homme pervers se croit sans cesse environné d'un témoin puissant et terrible anquel il ne peut échapper, qui le voit et le veille, tandis que les hommes sont livrés au sommeil...» (F. A. Aulard, Le Culte de la raison et le culte de l'Être Supreme (Paris, 1892), pp. 285 f.) How can one isolate this «structure» and separate it from its biblical antecedents, when — to cite only one of the many passages — one can read in the book of Isaiah (29:15): «Woe to those who hide deep from the Lord their counsel, whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, «Who sees us?