Sentences with phrase «there widows and orphans»

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While innovation should always be encouraged, Bitcoin isn't yet fit as a place for orphans and widows to shelter their nest eggs — although there are admittedly plenty of gold bugs who would say the same about fiat currencies.

Actually, yes you can know that what was done there pleased the Lord because he tells us that the religion that He finds to be pleasing is to take care of widows and orphans.

This is an opportunity to live out our responsibility to welcome the foreigners and show mercy to orphans and widows if there ever was one.

He pronounces woe upon those who join house to house, who add field to field, until there is no more room (5:8); and upon those who make iniquitous decrees, who write oppressive statutes, to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of Yahweh's people of their right, who make widows their spoil and orphans their prey (10:1 - 2).

Of course, no doctrinal statements are mentioned there, no rituals, no structures, but only caring for orphans and widows.

Despite the vast gulfs of experience that lie between ourselves and Jeremiah's contemporaries, it should not be too difficult to see why: a religion of pleasure is not likely to be conducive to the often far - from - pleasurable efforts required by social concern; there is not much voluptuousness in taking care of widows and orphans.

Also, we must help out the poor, the orphans, and the widows (just to name a few), and when we do, we combine that with the giving of the gospel because regardless of their physical needs, we recognize that there is an even greater need — and that one is spiritual in nature.

He gives all he can to the widows and orphans and his heart breaks when his purse is empty and there is no more to share.

If the churches provided for the poor, the widows, the orphans, and the helpless, would there be any need for Obamacare?

There are many who benefit from my personal health care, and widows and orphans who are supported by me personally), health care and various acts of philanthropy.

Well Bird, there may come a time when page proofs, author's alterations, and widows and orphans are rendered obsolete, but for the vast majority of people publishing today, they are all too real, involving real delays, real money and real work.

Are there bad breaks, ladders, and widows / orphans to be cleaned up and adjusted?