Sentences with phrase «rulers lord it over»

Here he sums it up again: «You know that among the Gentiles those whom they recognize as their rulers lord it over them, and their great ones are tyrants over them.

But over and above the broad ethical teaching, intrinsically universal in its scope, there are sayings addressed directly to the disciples as a community in being, capable of being compared and contrasted with other existing communities: «You know that in the world the recognized rulers lord it over their subjects, and their great men make them feel the weight of authority.

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«Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.»

But Jesus called them to him and said, «You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority over them.

«You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority over them» (Matt.

Jesus Christ told us what the order of this world is like: «You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority over them» (Matthew 20:25).

45Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?

He spoke of how «the rulers of the gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority over them» (Matt.

There is a Lord of this world, a ruler over all things; one can call upon Him for He hears.

«You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority over them.

On this occasion Jesus called them to him and told them, as he had before (cf. Mk 9:35; Lk 9:48), that the greatest among them would he the slave of the rest: they were not to lord it over men, as the rulers of the nations did (cf Lk 22:24 - 26).

And this comes, not just by believing in Jesus for eternal life — which is emphasized all over in the Gospel of John — but also by believing that Jesus is the Christ, that is, that He is King, Ruler, Master, Lord, and Savior.

Like the title «Christ,» it is about being King, Lord, Ruler, and Master over all things.

In speaking to them about authority he said, «You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them.

Matthew 20: 25But Jesus called them aside and said, «You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their superiors exercise authority over them.

Paul lauds God's power and secret wisdom «decreed before the ages for our glory» over against the «wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to perish... None of the rulers of this age understood this; for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.»

His lord said to him, «Well done, good and faithful servant; you were faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things.

Jesus said, «You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones are tyrants over them.

• Rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them.

Some of them, however, come to life for us: Condanna, the confessor; Sariputta, one of the disciples who is allowed to hear a word similar to that spoken by the Lord to Peter: he compares him to the eldest son of a world ruler, who, following the king, together with him sets in motion the wheel of rulership which this king lets roll over the earth; his friend Maha - Moggallana, the possessor of mysterious miraculous power, whose beautiful account of being called is passed on to us in the Mahavagga.

The evil is the threat, a wizard, lord or ruler that is trying to take over the land.