Sentences with phrase «not speak evil»

The statement reads, «Dr. Fayemi subscribes to the highest moral and ethical standard of the Yoruba and as such would not speak evil or seek to demean Asiwaju Tinubu or any of our respected leaders under no circumstance whatsoever.

Do not speak evil against one another, brothers.

Ac 23:5 Then said Paul, I wist not, brethren, that he was the high priest: for it is written, Thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy people.

«Do not speak evil of one another, brethren.

«I didn't speak evil at all... When you have a large family but you first make your wife and children eat first before others, what is wrong with that?

Not exact matches

However it only speaks of the rise of evil itself, not any hellish devil...

«These speak evil of those things which they know not».

@fimeilleur actually i can back up the claims i make both personally and historically, one example Abraham, Machpelah (actual location of his tomb and remains along with 5 others in Israel right where they are supposed to be) Kedorlaomer king of Elam, (defeated by Abraham and recently discovered) it is said Abraham believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness.More than that Abraham saw God and spoke with Him, not the god you are on about that men use to justify their evil intent, but the God who has created all things, the God that no one especially you can not contain.Ignorance is your choice but that will not negate the existence of God in any way.No one that i am aware of has all the answers at this point regarding spiritual things, evolution or evilution there are areas God has not yet revealed to mankind but every day more is discovered.I find it amazing that God is big enough to share discovery even with those who would reject Him.

Why can we not speak the truth and admit that Islam is perhaps the greatest evil the world has ever known, and act accordingly.

It is a word used for reprobates that do not heed the Spirit when it calls them, it does not listen when the Spirit speaks to heart on the evil they are doing, it is the callous heart that is so hard and fast in evil it has closed itself to the Spirit.

I recall how we even tried to call our exotic fuels «love» by redefining the word «love» into «speaking the truth», «being bold», «not tolerating evil», and «winning back the nation for God»....

If you were a real Christian you would know Christs words speak for themselves and the fact that he didn't take the sword away and turn it into a pruning shear right then and there does not mean he was saying «I mean all this stuff is for later after I come back and kill all the evil people and those who haven't accepted me as their savior so you won't have to fear anyone so you can finally give up your guns and weapons of war...» You disgust me chad.

«I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.»

If the situation described by the Guatemalan bishops (who indeed are not fully aware of all the evils rife in the country) is not a tyranny, then I say that St. Peter has spoken in vain and that the situation he describes does not exist anywhere.»

I did not say that you tend to speak against evil but you are saying that I have.

People have not come to realize that he is speaking about the ACTS that are evil.

9:39 But Jesus said, «Do not stop him, for no one who does a mighty work in my name will be able soon afterward to speak evil of me.

Notice that in the story of Genesis, to help Adam and Eve flourish, God speaks a rule to them, saying: «You may eat freely of every tree of the garden; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die» (Gen 2:17).

= NO Book of Jasher tells us that all the men who walked in the ways of the Lord died in those days, before the Lord brought the evil upon man which he declared, for this was from the Lord, that they should NOT see the evil which the Lord spoke of concerning the sons of men.

Forgive me if I'm wrong about the origins but don't you think that a «monkey» is implied due to the original use of «hear no evil, speak no evil» even if she isn't drawn as one?

When I go to Church, I don't go to some building that someone built, listen to someone speak at me about the evils of the world, give up money for some out of sight missionary work, and then get berated for not doing things according to some interpreted version of a much disputed holy book.

And Yahweh is jewish terminology is the same now that mean Allah and Yahweh are the same being but christian god is unknown I don't know what he is, And Muhammad in the Qur» an is the last of all Prophets and Messengers and is known as Rehmat ul alimeen the mercy of the world he forgive his most bitterest enemies who tortured him and his followers for believing in one true God.Now Muhammad never try to fake a miracle, the pig is forbidden to eat even in the jewish testament and so even here bible agrees but I don't know why christians eat pork.Secondly wine was forbidden because Muhammad's companions saw the evil in it.So please don't speak without having proper knowledge or Blurting out made up stories that actually have no sense, the jews call Jesus the false prophet, Sorcerer, Necromancer etc would you beieve those stories or be angry.Surely we both know the answer

* it's worse than bringing a knife to a gun fight... it's having the Good News that overcomes evil and choosing not to speak of it.

2Pe 2:12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;

Jesus is «speaking their language» so to speak, not using a contemporary swear word or call them idiots, evil or otherwise.

At all times in Israel people spoke much about evil powers, but not about one which, for longer than the purpose of temptation, was allowed to rule in God's stead; never, not even in the most deadly act of requital by God, is the bond of immediacy broken.

To talk in that fashion is not to speak of a kind of meaningless re-enactment of what went on in the creation; it is to speak of a vital, living, and ongoing movement, where God knows and experiences (if that word is, as I believe, appropriate to the divine life) that which has taken place, but knows it and experiences it with a continuing freshness and delight — and, if what has taken place has been evil, with a continuing tinge of sadness and regret — such as must be proper to the chief creative and chief receptive agency who is worshiped and served by God's human children.

These are the inevitable consequences of Jesus» Sonship, as is recognised by the evil spirits, but Jesus does not suffer the spirits to speak and tries as far as possible to prevent news of his healings from spreading abroad.

At the end of the day though, these evil men in no way represent atheism, or communism the way hitler or more recently Brevick in Scandanavia doesn't speak for christians.

To speak literally, God has no fingers, and there may or may not be such things as evil spirits; what the gospels call casting out devils we might describe, rightly or wrongly, in other terms.

4Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:

He speaks of the need for concealment — e.g., God made clothes for man in a fallen state — in which, although evil can not be eradicated, «it is at least to be kept hidden.

Speaking to popular culture blog Assignment X, the author said this as he again described the difference between his work and Tolkien's: «I think ultimately the battle between good and evil is weighed within the individual human heart, not necessarily between an army of people dressed in white and an army of people dressed in black.

Now his disciples knew that he said this because they had spoken evil against him before the people for they were afraid to confess him before men and they reasoned among themselves, saying «He knoweth our hearts and he speaketh to our condemnation and we shall not be forgiven.»

King was speaking at the height of the Cold War, and he specifically addressed resistance to the evils of Communism, which he said Christians had a right and obligation to mount — but always justly, and not out of hatred, and not with the desire to destroy individuals who could be saved.

They are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries, whereas angels, who are greater in power and might, do not bring a reviling accusation against them before the Lord.

A person can disguise the hidden evil in his intentions (perhaps even without being completely aware of it himself) in his verbalizations and utterances, but he can not hide or disguise the spirit behind his utterances, and if it is the Spirit of Christ speaking to the sinner, it can never be disguised or hidden.

Taking as his text, «Speak evil of no man» (Titus 3:2), Tillotson goes on interestingly enough about the sins of gossip and slander, and concludes with this: «I foresee what will be said, because I have heard it so often said in the like case, that there is not a word of Jesus Christ in all this.

I have had this experience three times now, on three different occasions, in admittedly similar circumstances, but not similar enough to explain the coincidence: I am speaking from a podium to a fairly large audience on the topics of — to put it broadly — evil, suffering, and God; I have been talking for several minutes about Ivan Karamazov, and about things I have written on Dostoevsky, to what seems general approbation; then, for some reason or other, I happen to remark that, considered purely as an artist, Dostoevsky is immeasurably inferior to Tolstoy; at this, a single pained gasp of incredulity breaks out somewhat to the right of the podium, and I turn my head to see a woman with long brown hair, somewhere in her middle thirties, seated in the third or fourth row, shaking her head in wide - eyed astonishment at my loutish stupidity.

Jeff: This is what causes division as we go about doing even good things, out of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil to set up another sect out of our carnal nature; above is the outcome; Jesus came to cause division among men that tries to become their own god and sets up camp, even for them that call themselves Christian, for them that have went from Him and His Words, even that are not of His Spirit: Jesus said; the Words that I speak are Spirit and Life, That means the Words of man can only bring forth death: Therefore; if we do not have His Spirit in us, then we too can only speak forth death: This is what it is to be a believer, we truly believe our Lord: I can see what the Catholic church and her daughters are doing to form a religious Babylonian city: Even as God caused a division in Babylon in the past because the peoples became great, so to is it now with all of the man made sects of religion: But when we are filled with the Spirit of God then we can not help but to live for God: It is written; those who are led by His spirit are His children: Thank - you Jeff: Those who are of His Spirit will know these truths, those who are not of His Spirit truly believe a believer is as they and can not know what we speak, because they live in unbelief: Thank - you again Jeff; In Jesus Name Alexandria: P.S..

Carpenter can not understand how I can speak of a structure of existence as unsurpassable and also states that it introduces new types of evil (p. 109).

St. Francis can speak of it as a sacrament «of evil».49 Yet he does not call upon all men to give up their possessions.

The prophetic act is divinely motivated, if not impelled (12: 1) The prophet speaks not his own but the given word — «thus says the Lord...» (12:7) The prophetic condemnation is based not alone on the violation of a man - to - man relationship, but, since all life is judged by the righteousness of God, upon the violation of the divine - human relationship — «Why have you despised the word of the Lord, to do what is evil in his sight?»

And this is why we turn the corner from assessment of the atheist complaint and his own solution to the problem to actually advocating for God: theism — particularly, those who say, «know for certain that Jesus is both Lord and Christ» — have an obligation to speak to the problem of evil not merely from a philosophic standpoint, but from an existential standpoint.

It is of course somewhat petty to care overly much about captious atheists at such a time, but it is difficult not to be annoyed when a zealous skeptic, eager to be the first to deliver God His long overdue coup de grâce, begins confidently to speak as if believers have never until this moment considered the problem of evil or confronted despair or suffering or death.

«Resist not evil,» «Love your enemies,» these are saintly maxims of which men of this world find it hard to speak without impatience.

More than a decade after its end, the editors of the New York Times still can not bring themselves to speak simple truth about the evil of the most murderous movement in human history, or about those who devoted their lives and betrayed their country in serving that movement.

It is significant that Vatican II (and also the Uppsala Assembly of the World Council of Churches) defines the church as the sacramental sign of the unity of all humanity, and also speaks of the presence of the Paschal Mystery among all peoples (see Decree on the Church, and the document on the Pastoral Constitution of the Church in the Modern World) This approach assumes that in Christianity, acknowledgment of Salvation (understood as the transcendent ultimate destiny of human beings) finds expression and witness in the universal struggle for Humanization (understood as the penultimate human destiny) in world history which is shaped not only by the forces of goodness and life, but also by the forces of evil and death.

When Marcion, the greatest of the second - century Christian dualists, insisted that the world was so fundamentally evil that the Creator God of the Old Testament, who was responsible for so immense a debacle, could only be a morally defective being, he was not speaking as some disillusioned idealist: rather, he was reflecting the hard, unsentimental realism of his time.

His comments here should read with some «salt» so to speak, because he is not speaking for the good of things overall, but for their evil, probably after having suffered on Earth for quite some time.