Sentences with phrase «giveth life»
2Cor.3: 6 ``... the letter killeth but the Spirit giveth life.»
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«I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his live for the sheep.»
«Verily, verily I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven - For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world - I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst - But I said unto you, That ye also have seen me, and believe not - All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and that cometh to me I will no wise ca
A number of books on compulsive eating are beginning to focus on the path of acceptance, finally recognizing what Christian theology has known since Paul: that works destroy, whereas grace «giveth life.»
To assume that a prayer with this formula attached is more likely to be answered than one without these words is to forget that «the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.»
Call it irony, or ambiguity, or metaphor, or «spirit» (as in that which doesn't «kill» but «giveth life»), it's simply a core element of civilization for me, one that connects language to life and makes both possible, or at least, more bearable.