Sentences with phrase «great wickedness»

He has been able (however) by his filial piety to live in harmony with them, and to lead them gradually to self - government, so that they no longer proceed to great wickedness.»

Archbishop Justin stopped short of fully apologising for the Church's response, and he pointed out that George Bell was «accused of great wickedness».

In 1:1 God tells Jonah to preach against the city, because of its great wickedness.

Some people truly did need to be destroyed because of their great wickedness.

He is also accused of great wickedness.

(Genesis 6:5 - 8) The LORD saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time.

How could I do this great wickedness and sin against — God?»

His answer to Potiphar's wife, «How could I do this great wickedness and sin against God?»

Not exact matches

Those in the media who have uncovered this wickedness have done the Church a great service.

Likewise, a Nephite king named Benjamin declared around 124 b.c., «And lo, he shall suffer temptations, and pain of body, hunger, thirst, and fatigue, even more than man can suffer, except it be unto death; for behold, blood cometh from every pore, so great shall be his anguish for the wickedness and the abominations of his people.

As for rain, a man of prayer, like Samuel, powerful in his influence with Yahweh, was supposed to be able to dictate its coming — «I will call unto Yahweh, that he may send thunder and rain; and ye shall know and see that your wickedness is great, which ye have done in the sight of Yahweh, in asking you a king.

For he who «bestows food or raiment on the poor, yet is stained with wickedness in his soul or body, offers the lesser to righteousness and the greater to sin,» for in giving to God his possessions he abandons his soul to death.19

The Lord saw how great man's wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time.

Your wickedness makes you as it were heavy as lead, and to tend downwards with great weight and pressure towards hell; and if God should let you go, you would immediately sink and swiftly descend and plunge into the bottomless gulf, and your healthy constitution, and your own care and prudence, and best contrivance, and all your righteousness, would have no more influence to uphold you and keep you out of hell, than a spider's web would have to stop a fallen rock.

he will also be the False Prophet from the Book of Revelation pointing all universal religions to the anti-christ (the eighth will be of the seven and shall go unto perdition), most likely a satanic infilling of pape john's carcass given great power by YAHweh thru satan to fulfill the Scriptures in the faithlessness and wickedness of man's heart.

A great many women (as some of her own examples show in the moving testimonies peppered throughout the book) reveal the truth that most of us sin through weakness rather than wickedness.

7 And lo, he shall suffer temptations, and pain of body, hunger, thirst, and fatigue, even more than man can suffer, except it be unto death; for behold, blood cometh from every pore, so great shall be his anguish for the wickedness and the abominations of his people.

With classic terminology but with an emotional insistence not common in the earlier generations of New England Puritans, Cotton Mather preached that the only hope of reform from these various forms of wickedness was to be born again in Christ, to rise again, not with one's own strength but with his.8 As Mather began to despair that any general reformation of this sort would occur — it would not until Jonathan Edwards» Great Awakening of 1740, 12 years after Cotton Mather's death — he dwelt more and more on prophecies of the end of times.

If «the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually» (Gen 6:5), imagine the evil that continued to take place during those 120 years?!

Pre-flood thought patterns are rising... «Gen 6:5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man [was] great in the earth, and [that] every imagination of the thoughts of his heart [was] only evil continually...» Jesus called it a sign.

The more we feel the tension between God's sovereign omnipotence and the wickedness of the world, the greater will be our sense of expectation that the end must come quickly; any delay becomes increasingly intolerable.

It is not now because of the wickedness of the great that Israel or Christians should turn from God.

Gen 6:5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man [was] great in the earth, and [that] every imagination of the thoughts of his heart [was] only evil continually.

Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, «Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness has come up before me.»

Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

«The contemporary pope - hunting springs from a secularist movement which feels incapable of asserting a sense of purpose or meaning in any positive, human - centred way - as the great atheists of old such as Marx or Darwin might have done - and which instead can only assert itself negatively, in contrast to the «evil» of religion, by posturing against the alleged wickedness of institutionalised faith.

And this is the greatest profanity and wickedness.

... Delight in smooth - sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts, desire for popularity and electoral success irrespective of the vital interests of the State, genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation, obvious lack of intellectual vigour in both leaders of the British Coalition Government, marked ignorance of Europe and aversion from its problems in Mr. Baldwin, the strong and violent pacifism which at this time dominated the Labour - Socialist Party, the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality, the failure and worse than failure of Mr. Lloyd George, the erstwhile great war - time leader, to address himself to the continuity of his work, the whole supported by overwhelming majorities in both Houses of Parliament: all these constituted a picture of British fatuity and fecklessness which, though devoid of guile, was not devoid of guilt, and, though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries which, even so far as they have unfolded, are already beyond comparison in human experience.