Sentences with phrase «sake of my servant»

«For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David» (v. 34).

34 For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David.»

Not exact matches

* Isaiah 45:4 For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: * John 13:18 I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: * Romans 9:13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.

Is it the true and unalterable one which bears his essential characteristics, or the one which he took up for our sakes when he assumed the form of a servant?»

I personally believe that the helpers (pastors, employees, civil servants, clients, etc.) usually become the victims, and for a lone victim to stand up to an entire institution for the sake of his or her own health is often quite costly.

This is Deutero - Isaiah's «suffering servant of the Lord,» the righteous man who suffers for the sake of God.

Reproached for altering the figure of the «holy Yehudi» in For the Sake of Heaven according to a conscious or unconscious Christian tendency, Buber answers that there is not one single trait of this figure which is not already to be found in the tradition of the suffering servant.

Here Jesus is distinctly seen in terms of the Suffering Servant, and the Suffering Servant, however mysterious a figure he may be, was one whose vicarious sufferings were for the sake of the healing of his people.

The familiar phrases «he emptied himself [heauton ekenosen], taking the form of a servant,» and «though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor» have come to seem commonplace.

Jesus referred him to the classes of those who customarily didn't want to marry or couldn't marry - monks (for the sake of the kingdom of heaven - men damaged by the practice of making eunuchs for use as governmental servants (Egypt generally) and the class of people who «from their mother's womb «are not suited (for women?)

We are servants and messengers, inadequate vessels of an amazing grace that has been entrusted to us for the sake of others.

«Blessed are you when people speak ill of you and revile you for my sake...» Well done, good and faithful servant.

It's quite possible that this film meant to stand for something rebellious as it was written, but as the credits roll, the takeaway seems to be that citizens, and even lower - level civil servants, should just stay in their lane, do what they're told, let the big boys take care of everything, and for God's sake do not ask questions.

Given how much greater a role the arts and humanities play in their own right — the arts for arts» sake — they certainly don't need to be justified by their utility as servants of science.