Sentences with phrase «from defiling»

Jugs with thin necks and tiny apertures have been found, thus preventing flies and insects from defiling drink and washing vessels.

According to a legalistic interpretation of the Mosaic Law (which Jesus Himself rejected time and time again), God's people needed to stay separate and distinct from the defiled and unclean «sinners» of this world, because eating with them and hanging out with them causes the defilement of the «pure.»

Not exact matches

For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked (for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard); then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment, and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority.

'' «If any man's wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him, 13 and a man has intercourse with her and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband and she is undetected, although she has defiled herself, and there is no witness against her and she has not been caught in the act, 14 if a spirit of jealousy comes over him and he is jealous of his wife when she has defiled herself, or if a spirit of jealousy comes over him and he is jealous of his wife when she has not defiled herself, 15 the man shall then bring his wife to the priest, and shall bring as an offering for her one - tenth of an ephah of barley meal; he shall not pour oil on it nor put frankincense on it, for it is a grain offering of jealousy, a grain offering of memorial, a reminder of iniquity.

... Those who make a great profession of religion have need to walk very circumspectly, to abstain from all appearances of evil, and approaches towards it, because many eyes are upon them, that watch for their halting; their character is soon sullied (defiled, tainted), and they have a great deal of reputation to lose.

There they visit the Holy Mosque and pray to God in Arafat, a narrow defile some thirteen miles from Mecca.

Bodily food does not defile a man: what does defile him is what comes from his heart and finds expression through his mouth.

Your faith in a dead God is vain; you're apparently blind to your own disbelief and sadly cut off from repentance of it; and your prejudiced accusations and support of a policy platform that defiles the sacred fountain of life, pretending to «love» people by clothing them in chains of dependency, expose your fearful guilt.

When men of God today say they're afraid of alienating their wealthy contributors, how do they differ from the men defiling the Temple Jesus overthrew that Passover week before He was crucified?

«What comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this is what defiles.

All these evil things come from within, and defile a man.»

From Cilicia, they passed through a sharp and treacherous defile in the mountains known as the Cilician Gates into southern Galatia.

Jesus told us in Mark 7:14 - 23 what will defile the man, not things that you take into the body, but the things that come from within, out of the heart, evil things such as hate for others around us, prejudice, unforgiveness, meanness, pride, lying, wanting to have what belongs to others, all those unloving things that come from out of the heart.

Thus in saying 14, Jesus rejects fasting, prayer and almsgiving, and then says, «if you go into any land and wander in the regions, if they receive you, eat what is set before you, heal the sick among them; for what goes into your mouth will not defile you...» The «land» and the «regions» are Thomas's substitute for the «city» of Luke 10:8, a verse from which receiving and eating what is set before one are derived; «heal the sick among them» comes from Luke 10:9, though in Thomas it is quite irrelevant to the subject of dietary laws, with which the rest of the saying is concerned (cf. Matt.

Mat 15:18 «But the things that proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and those defile the man.

These evil things come from inside, and they defile the man»; and he adds, as his own comment, «thus he declared all foods clean.»

According to Mark Jesus pronounced categorically on the matter: «Nothing that goes into a man from outside can defile him.»

I have read articles and heard sermons about this verse and how Jesus didn't want to be defiled by Mary before he ascended to heaven, and how Jesus rose from the dead, but he didn't ascend to heaven, but after he talked to Mary, he did ascend to heaven, after which time He could be touched by the apostles in the Upper Room, and then later, he ascended for good.

If Jesus took the sin of the whole world on His body on the cross, and He died for that sin, and God raised Him from the dead, do we really think that a hug from a woman is going to defile Him?

It is a very different account of burial from what might have been given if a group of anonymous Jews had been concerned simply to throw the body of Jesus (and perhaps those of the two thieves also) into the grave or tomb of the common people in order to prevent the precincts of the holy city from being defiled.

This approach may seem overly limited due to the fact that it proceeds through the narrow defile of one cultural fact, the existence of written documents, and thus because it is limited to cultures which possess books, but it will seem less limited if we comprehend what enlargement of our experience of the world results from the existence of such documents.

and is why YHWH says this will be His vengeance, over this controversy, in Isaiah 34:8, and in Ezekiel 36:1 - 5, of this same robbery of the holy land against YHWH, and from Ezekiel 36:7 - 38, YHWH tells how His chosen defiled this land, and got scattered, punished, but how He will bring His true chosen back.

It is these who have not defiled themselves with women, for they are chaste; it is these who follow the Lamb wherever he goes; these have been redeemed from mankind as first fruits for God and the Lamb, and in their mouth no lie was found, for they are spotless.

5 17... Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside can not defile him, 19 since it enters not his heart jbut his stomach, and is expelled?

The whole law of purification is nullified by the saying, «There is nothing which comes into a man from without which defiles him; it is what comes out of a man which defiles him.»

The «Get Out gospel» is a gospel of holiness that stands with Jesus and drives those who would defile God's house and God's faith away from the temple.

Jesus then returns to the issue raised by the Pharisees: what defiles a person is not what comes from the outside (dirt or other contamination that can be removed by washing) but rather what comes from inside the person.

He was taken from his cross on Friday so his friends could avoid defiling the Sabbath, which begins at sundown on Friday.

28 If, however, the woman has not defiled herself and is free from impurity, she will be cleared of guilt and will be able to have children.

«While we call on all Catholic faithful and Christians generally to remain prayerful and steadfast in the face of these provocations for the sake of peace in our country, we also call on the Federal Government under the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari to take every step to ensure that Nigeria and Nigerians are protected from foreign invaders who defile our places of worship and lay their murderous hands on the Lord's anointed.

Let me just say, without giving away too much, that I most likely will not eat fried chicken for a while after this poultry - defiling scene unfolds that left me almost hyperventilating from not taking a damn breath.

While Justine chooses to continually defile her wedding dress, Jane Eyre (Mia Wasikowska) practically tears it from her body.

As the film unfolds, it becomes apparent that it is a beauty wrought from a landscape defined and defiled by longstanding racial tensions.

It is a brave and daring act, and sometimes if you push past the rage from your childhood memories being defiled, it actually works out for the best.

Roberta Smith: In the landscapes in Kim Dorland's second New York gallery show, both painting and nature are defiled, but bright, electric color keeps things from getting too ugly.

Yet he turned against the violence of de Kooning: «We all dissent from de Kooning's example of defacing, of painting out the painting, of throwing the defiled scrapings back on to the surface, in a gesture of contempt and hatred....

It should be noted that Peter's remarks are to be taken with the understanding that, like Realtors, one is not supposed to say anything potentially damaging about one's fellow practitioners for fear of repurcussions descending upon them from on high (Appraisal Institue of Canada and RECO - Ontario, respectively) should a complaint be filed by the allegedly defiled complainant.