Sentences with phrase «for licentiousness»

(Apollonius is discussing the question of libations and in his audience is a youth with «so evil a reputation for licentiousness, that his conduct had once been the subject of coarse street - corner songs».

Not exact matches

One does not have to abhor homosexuality in order to understand that the recent change in law has opened a wide door that will leave the school system, and children in general, vulnerable to further legal changes that will always go towards greater licentiousness, and less protection for the vulnerable.

Jude 1:4 For certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus ChriFor certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Chrifor this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

There would be no ready cure for the consequences of sexual licentiousness.

Jude warned of â $ œChristian Teachersâ $ like you, Mr Hayward, â $ œFor certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

Some well - respected evangelical scholars think this means Paul did not permit a woman of that particular community to teach and dominate a man for selfish gain resulting in licentiousness (see recommended reading).

As Reilly shows, this is the philosophy of Callicles, who, in Plato's Georgias, has no hesitation in asserting that «luxury and licentiousness and self - indulgence, if they have the support of force, are virtue and happiness...» As for the «unnatural covenants of mankind,» the good Sophist in Callicles was categorical: they were all «mere stuff and nonsense.»

And, as the prophets later saw, all this presented two focal points of peril to the best traditions that had come from the desert: it substituted for the old austerity the alluring licentiousness of baal worship, and it sanctioned the commercial inequalities and tyrannies, which the baals of sophisticated Canaan sponsored against the ancient ideas of social solidarity, equality, and justice for which Yahweh stood.

A certain relation between I Peter and II Peter is suggested by the following combinations of words which occur in both: «grace and peace be multiplied to you» (1, 1:2; 2, 1:2), «licentiousness, passions» (1,4.3; cf. «licentious passions», 2, 2:18), «without blemish or spot» (1, 1:19, reversed in 2, 3:14), and «ceased from sin» (1, 4:1; contrast 2, 2:14, «insatiable for sin» — similar Greek words).

It's not always good to talkOur party's annual staff drinks reception is usually famed for its combination of licentiousness and social awkwardness.

Jane Austen is known for her extensive vocabulary, which can cause eye rolling: «blowsy,» «solicitude,» «diffident,» «abstruse,» and «licentiousness.»

We, the benighted, may benefit from additional definitions for: Fraud, Hoax, Malfeasance, Licentiousness, ad infinitum.

But this reminded me of something I read recently, a complaint that «affluent parents have become role models for luxury and licentiousness, and have moved far away from caring about whether their children develop habits of discipline and self - restraint.