Sentences with phrase «kept the commandments from»

The rich man protested that he had kept the commandments from his youth.

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I do not read your minds (or «hear your prayers» as you like to call it) and you are not going to achieve immortality (or «eternal life» as you like to call it) no matter how many commandments from Iron Age Palestine you choose to «keep».

... I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who in his testimony before Pontius Pilate made the good confession, to keep the commandment unstained and free from reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ.

From another point of view, Christians still keep the Commandment regarding the seventh day anyway — they just call that day Sunday instead of Sabbath or Saturday.

So not only did the law not justify the one who kept the primary commandment of the law perfectly, thus showing the sinfulness of those under it, and their inability to judge righteously, but it shows that Jesus was vindicated by God for his trust even unto death, apart from the law's judgment, and that he was righteous in doing so.

I believe in the God who handed down the commandments — perhaps we are his morality play, his TV sitcom, his amusement park — something to keep him from being bored by monotony.

Because «he himself knew what was in man» (John 2:25), he pierced through the veneer of «good» people to their chicanery and self - deception, and saw that the keeping of the commandments from one's youth up was no substitute for single - minded devotion to God (Mark 10:17 - 22).

If his children forsake my law and do not walk according to my ordinances, if they violate my statutes and do not keep my commandments, then I will punish their transgression with the rod and their iniquity with scourges; but I will not remove from him [that is, Israel, seen corporately in the person of David] my stead - fast love, or be false to my faithfulness.

From this verse we can then determine that flint meant black in a way that those who do not follow the counsel of the priest and were on such a level of «scratching and biting» as were the brothers of Nephi could receive a curse of being exiled from the people of God and a transformation would come on them which would make them look unpleasant to those who kept the commandments of God so they would not want to be a part of their communitFrom this verse we can then determine that flint meant black in a way that those who do not follow the counsel of the priest and were on such a level of «scratching and biting» as were the brothers of Nephi could receive a curse of being exiled from the people of God and a transformation would come on them which would make them look unpleasant to those who kept the commandments of God so they would not want to be a part of their communitfrom the people of God and a transformation would come on them which would make them look unpleasant to those who kept the commandments of God so they would not want to be a part of their communities.

Its gone from literal truth, to parable - based understanding, to take what you want and leave the rest, to ummmm... maybe this is a load of tosh, let's just keep the 10 commandments, 4 of which don't make sense, and try not to be too rude to each other.

It shall be when he sitteth on the throne of his kingdom that he shall write for himself a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests, the Levites, and it shall be with him and he shall read therein all the days of his life that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes to do them; that his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment to the right or to the left (Deut.

We see this happening in the life of the individual — Job, for instance, the righteous man who keeps the commandments of God and yet from whose life all sign of the divine presence has failed.

The Old Testament reading for Trinity Sunday is from Deuteronomy 4: «Because he [God] loved your fathers and chose their descendants after them... you shall keep his statutes and his commandments, which I [Moses] command you this day, that it may go well with you, and with your children, after you.»

«The church after changing the day of rest from the Jewish Sabbath or seventh - day of the week to the first, made the third commandment refer to Sunday as the day to be kept holy as the Lord's day.»

There is no dividing wall of separation or religious commandments and ordinances which keep some people cut off from God's love and grace.

(Bill Viola); the Ten Commandments projected through a shadow cube (thou shalt not steal from Anila Quayyum Agha); the 12 tribes of Israel as stones stacked one on the other (no false witness: it's Moana); and the climax — through it all, the Jews have kings David and Solomon, and kept the Torah — amid a projection - mapped Kusama-esque Infinity Room of stars.