Sentences with phrase «sword in vain»
He writes to the Romans, with an apparent reference to the death penalty, that the magistrate who holds authority «does not bear the sword in vain; for he is the servant of God to execute His wrath on the wrongdoer» (Romans 13:4).
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In carrying a weapon to defeat a nation's enemies, a soldier «does not bear the sword in vain» but he is «a servant of God... who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer» (Romans 13:4).
The government, as Paul said, does not bear the sword in vain.
But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain.
But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain; he is the servant of God to execute His wrath on the wrongdoer.
He was prepared to live with the institution of slavery (Philemon), the secondary status of women (I Cor: 14:34 - 36), and authoritarian magistrates, who did «not bear the sword in vain» (Rom.