Sentences with phrase «licentiousness in»

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

(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».

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).

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.»

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

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...

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).