Sentences with phrase «to abase»

Contrary to being self serving, one born - again abases himself and throws himself to the dust at Christ's feet.

We see only this aspect of God's judgment, that he exalts the humble and abases the proud.

I know how to be abased, and I know also how to abound: in everything and in all things have I learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in want.

Luke 18:14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

2Co 11:7 - 9 Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?

The replacement of the study of serious literature by the study of popular culture is not meant to enhance the appreciation of pop culture, a wholly unnecessary endeavor, but to abase literature.

The Greek word Tartarus is used only once in the Bible at 2 Peter 2:4, and has the meaning of an abased condition, whereby Satan and his demons are placed there, being cut off from our Creator, Jehovah God, both physically and spiritually.

And, shades of Kojève, the stars» stardom seems closely related to the willingness of others to abase themselves before it.

... therefore abasing Christ to the category of a religion... equal in validity as other religions, as other «gods».

Though I have to admit your comment on «comeuppance» would imply that, were this true, your statement is self - abasing, because it would universally apply, including to you, your smugness and your tan.

Yet you have rejected us and abased us, and have not gone out with our armies.

The important thing was that a divine being — one who had» the nature of God» — abased him - self.

But the implication is that the king should abase himself before Sennacherib, that he should definitively recognize his suzerainty, and that he should hand over Jerusalem.

I would say, perhaps the first category, because God, the Son of God, abased Himself, made Himself poor to walk with us on the road.

But the biblical doctrine of God does not remain with man abased before omnipotence.

After all, by his lights, Christianity thrived in the Roman Empire because it appealed to losers — to the lowly servants, weak slaves, etc. — who found in the story of a God willing to so abase himself a consoling message and sanctifying example to follow, which they did with an energy fueled by otherwise insatiable resentment of their strong and confident rulers.

Some protest that this affirmation comes at a cost: You can not receive it unless you first abase yourself as a hopeless and helpless sinner in need of redemption.

There is, however, another thought that abases us even more; that God is the Holy One.

Isn't the DCE and the District Police Commander supposed to work in tandem to bring this menace of gruesome murderers and constant attacks on natives of Asante Akim and Fulani herdsmen abase?

«These findings are important because they raise awareness about how women actually are being perceived when they engage in this self - abasing kind of talk,» Corning says.

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Marber's Larry may be an upwardly mobile medical professional but, in the scene where he discovers Anna's infidelity, Rufus Sewell reveals a self - abasing rage and torment that is truly shocking to behold.

A series that follows the grizzled and snarky, self - abasing wizard, Harry Dresden.

I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound.

In Philippians 4:11 - 13, Paul says, «Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content: I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound.

Henry Schein has acquired a majority interest in ABASE, a distributor of veterinary health care products In Sao Paulo, Brazil.

ABASE distributes drugs, pet food, diagnostic equipment and consumables to small animal and livestock veterinarians.

Henry Schein Inc. has acquired a 60 percent ownership stake in ABASE, a Brazilian veterinary products distributor.

These have been called the grand machines of the French tradition, and only Manet attempted the genre (traditionally with the Execution of Maximilian, and in abased form with his Dejuner Sur l'Herbe and Olympia).

Of course, the fact that these people have to so abase themselves tells you what lousy scientists they are in the first place.

Foreign currency shortages and liquidity crisis has also been plaguing Zimbabwe for long triggered by the country's low production abase.