Sentences with phrase «evil against someone»

Do not speak evil against one another, brothers.

It is a tension precisely articulated later in the Joseph narrative when Joseph, reunited with his treacherous brothers, declares, «You meant evil against me; but God meant it for good» (50:20)

He said, «When you sit and plot evil against Rivers State, you will not know peace.

When ye plot evil against each other, ye torment me.

Those who choose to stand silently and idly by while this regime commits evil against children have failed it already.

I think the most common conception of what is happening here is that the «mean men of the Vatican» are doing evil against the «poor old ladies» of the LCWR.

This is in effect selling indulgences — a return to the very evils against which the Protestant Reformation rebelled some four centuries ago.

We forget that you are blessed when people revile you and utter evil against you.

He warned them against the prince of this world and all the secularistic, materialistic, and atheistic influences that militate through evil against them.

If they don't apologise for plotting and executing evil against Rivers State, they will never know peace.»

All those who do not sleep and plan evil against Rivers, will never know peace.

As the officers doubtless knew, physical entry into the home is the «chief evil against which the wording of the Fourth Amendment is directed.»

«Blessed are you when they insult you and persecute you and utter every kind of evil against you [falsely] because of me.»

20 Let this be the reward of my accusers from the LORD, And of those who speak evil against my soul.

Perhaps Paul's hope is that things will turn out as they do at the end of the book of Genesis, when Joseph presents himself as a blessing for his jealous brothers in the famous words: «You meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are this day.»

I don't think God is guilty of the sin of failing to prevent humans from committing evil against each other.

11 «Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me.

When we consider the historical reality and the spiritual imagery together, what we see in Genesis 6 - 8 is the near victory of the forces of evil against the power of God so that the waters threaten to kill everything that has the breath of life.

«Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

«But blessed are you when they revile and persecute you ans say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake.Rejoice and be EXCEEDINGLY glad, for great is your reward in Heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

The author of Hebrews wrote that Jesus, «for the sake of the joy that was set before him endured the cross» (12:2); and others quote him teaching, «Blessed are you when people persecute and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.

Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake.

Somehow make suffering turn this evil against itself, so that a greater life rises from the dark.

James 4:11 - 12 Do not speak evil against one another, brothers.

2 Samuel 12:11: «Thus says the LORD, «Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house.

(Matthew 10:16) Blessed are ye when men shall reproach you, and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

Oh, and one other thing, some who become pastors just don't believe what Jesus said: «Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me.»

The non-violent resister is just as strongly opposed to the evil against which he protests as is the person who uses violence.

Whereas care for the Earth is affirmed when the question is asked and forgotten most of the time, racism is now part of the evil against which a wide spectrum of churches struggle.

Nathan said to David,»... Thus says the Lord, «Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house...»» [II Sam.

Matthew 5:11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

There is no particular point in producing pressures of evil against a man or woman who moves harmlessly and respectably with the normal currents of contemporary human living.

The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law.

Blessed are ye, when [men] shall revile you, and persecute [you], and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

He said, «Asiwaju is a well respected leader of our party; so, I can not be seen speaking evil against him.

It can be heartbreaking to watch the apes fueled with hatred and evil against one another.