Sentences with word «licentiousness»

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 Christ.

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

In both cases we see how immorality generally, and sexual licentiousness in particular, get attributed to natural kinds (e.g., race, gender).

Before Our Lord Jesus Christ preached the Good News of the Gospel among men, the world was submerged in a prolonged and terrible night, in which moral licentiousness, egoism, cruelty, inhumanity...

What we are seeing is licentiousness even in churches.

To equate love with licentiousness to indulge your whims and inclinations is also false.

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.

Advocates of the movement disagree about whether sex should be within a «committed relationship,» however defined, but are one in contending that what used to be called licentiousness must now be viewed as the freedom essential to fulfillment.

He's licensed to practice 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».

Perfect example of «selective» theology - justifying licentiousness.

Which begs the ultimate question of Goat: why would anyone subject themselves to such hateful licentiousness under the guise of brotherhood?

Enter Odalie Lazare, the other typist of the title and the very embodiment of Jazz Age 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.

Before Our Lord Jesus Christ preached the Good News of the Gospel among men, the world was submerged in a prolonged and terrible night, in which moral licentiousness, egoism, cruelty, inhumanity and oppression reigned, as history illustrates.

And a common example of this moral inferiority is evidence of sexual licentiousness.

Jesus insisted that it is what comes out of people that defiles them, that from people's hearts come evil intentions leading to fornication, theft, murder, adultery, avarice, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, slander, pride and folly.

The patriarch of Western monasticism was St Benedict of Nursia (c.480 - c. 550), who in c. 500, because of the licentiousness of Roman society, withdrew to a cave at Subiaco, forty miles to the east of Rome.

Neither licentiousness nor the purity / modesty culture produce good fruit.

Parallels continue in the matter of a great deal of drunkenness, licentiousness, and secularism on the one hand, and on the other, internal bickerings among the leaders as to the best policy of protection from their enemies.

Now the works of the flesh are plain: immorality, impurity, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger, selfishness, dissension, party spirit, envy, drunkenness, carousing and the like...

Could it be that a little dose of Puritanism could be a corrective to the licentiousness of our times?

Jude warned of «Christian Teachers» like you, Mr Hayward, «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 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).

Her powerful insight is that modesty is ultimately more erotic than licentiousness.

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.»

authenticity without accountability is licentiousness.

In a time of licentiousness, you preach a dangerous message, Jeremy, that will result in many souls continuing happily on their way to Hell.

What makes a person unclean are the «evil intentions» of the heart: «fornication, theft, murder, adultery, avarice, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, slander, pride, folly.»

In our fallen world the naked body is a symbol of licentiousness and indignity.

Wine and liquors were kept in many rooms; intemperance, profanity, gambling, and licentiousness were common...

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.

The film makers had declared they were bravely exploring new levels of licentiousness, but the biggest risk they've taken here is making a nearly $ 40 million movie without anyone who can act.

«To this succeeded the licentiousness which entered with the restoration, and from infecting our religion and morals fell to corrupt our language.»

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

Ethridge's take on a figure who has loomed large since he began studying the medium, highlights Mapplethorpe's focus on classical and baroque, intimate and public, and restraint 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.