Sentences with phrase «suffer chastisement»

«If He has promised to strengthen with patience those who suffer chastisement for their sins, how much less will God be found wanting to... those whom God employs on so worthy a mission as being witnesses to God's truth.

Agatha, James, and nearly all of Hassler's figures suffer chastisement or worse for their failures, and nearly all are championed in this splendid work, testimony to God's tender mercies.

Not exact matches

Takeaway for me is that the pain / suffering / rejection we experience in this life does not equal rejection by God — even if it does serve as a chastisement / correction for sin / failure in our lives — it reveals God's love and personal concern for our development, reminding us of our mortality and need to rely upon him... In short, the wounds / scars we receive are God's way of branding / choosing us as his own...

It is God's will only to the degree that he takes upon himself the chastisement that he wills and ordains, the chastisement of man, his suffering and his death.2

Furthermore, when he inflicts chastisement on man, God himself suffers it, for he does not withdraw from even the worst of men.

Yet on himself he bore our sufferings, our torments he endured, while we counted him smitten by God, struck down by disease and misery; but he was pierced for our transgressions, tortured for our iniquities; the chastisement he bore is health for us and by his scourging we are healed.

As Suffering Servant, «the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed» (Isa.

In later Judaism it was plainly taught that suffering propitiates God, even more than burnt - offerings, since the latter are a man's property while the former are borne in his own person, and that «chastisements wipe out all a man's wickednesses.»

First, as the idea of God was heightened into nobler meanings, nothing for which he was responsible could be conceived as aimless and, therefore, the suffering which he brought on men and nations could readily be thought of, not as retribution merely, but as purposeful discipline and chastisement.

As regards vicarious suffering, cf. Is 53:4 - 6, «Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows... But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that made us whole, and with his stripes we are healed... the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.»

For example, the Aztec god Tezcatlipoca, a despotic numen, vengeful, implacable, violent in his chastisement, pleased by suffering, has seemed to the ethnologist H. Dietschy «ein alttestamentlicher Cott.»