Sentences with word «uncleanness»

Romans 1:24 - 32 24Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: 25Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever.

Note also that, while the word «abomination» has been used with reference to hom ose xuality, the biblical interpretation of the word «abomination» relates to any act of uncleanness as set out in the Holiness Code, such as eating shellfish, trimming your hair, touching the skin of a dead pig (should we stone the entire NFL?)

If the law of the Sabbath stood in the way of human service, it was to be suspended; he ate with publicans and sinners to win them to the Kingdom even at the cost of ceremonial uncleanness.

In this city there will be no more tears, no more death, no more mourning and crying and pain (21:4), no more uncleanness (21:8, 27; 22:3), no more night (21:23; 22:5).

As scapegoat, Jesus bears our sins and uncleannesses out of the camp in a final Yom Kippur.

Some people may still feel that uncleanness attaches to semen and menstrual blood, but most people who consider themselves «enlightened» regard these fluids as completely natural and only at times «messy, not «unclean.»

It was also customary in some regions to «baptize» or wash those who had died, so that any residual uncleanness could be removed from the body, and the spirit of the person could break free of the dead body and be released into the realm of the gods or into the renewal of life and reincarnation.

Don't cover up uncleanness with scents.

Wherefore, God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts unto uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored amoung themselves: for that they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever.

11 - 16Torah relating to ceremonial uncleanness and purification; and to the special rites for the Day of Atonement (16).

The priests have once more gained the upper hand; it is only what the priests do in the sanctuary that really matters; nothing in the world outside has changed; people go on getting sick and dying and fighting with drugs and alcohol possession and being shunned for various forms of uncleanness.

Galatians 5:19 - 21 read: «Now the works of the flesh are manifest, and they are fornication, uncleanness, loose conduct, idolatry, practice of spiritism, enmities, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, contentions, divisions, sects, envies, drunken bouts, revelries, and things like these.

Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.

The holiness of Jesus overwhelmed and defeated the impurity and uncleanness of leprosy.

Jesus compares the hypocritical Pharisees and scribes to «whitewashed tombs» (KJV «whited sepulchres»), outwardly beautiful, but within «full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness.»

Is it not normal, then, that he should be smitten and that he should bear upon himself this uncleanness, the mark of his sin, the sign of his violence?

«When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

Noddings finds the Judeo - Christian tradition especially culpable in women's denigration: there is the Adam and Eve story, with Eve held responsible for accepting the serpent's temptation and leading man to sin; the Old Testament «uncleanness» references and practices; the long history of burning witches; even the veneration of the Virgin Mary.

Paul sees male - male sex as an impurity, a taboo, uncleanness — in other words, «abomination.»

To be sure, all Western religious traditions draw heavily on the vocabulary and symbolism of Leviticus: priesthood (whether clergy or «of the people»), sacrifice, offerings, uncleanness, purification, ablution / baptism, the redeeming power of blood, and on and on.

Gal 5:19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Gal 5:20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Gal 5:21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told [you] in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

It was more like the ritual bath which converts to Judaism had to take before they could be admitted into the holy people, as a sign that they were purified from the «uncleanness» of heathen ways.

For you are like whitewashed tombs which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men's bones an all uncleanness.

I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you.

Two identical males, one the scapegoat and the other a sacrifice for sin and uncleanness, go to their respective fates as determined by the priests.

There exist no simply biblical grounds, for as I have tried to show, in other respects many of us would clearly reject biblical attitudes and practices regarding nudity, intercourse during menstruation, prudery about speaking of the sexual organs and act, the «uncleanness» of semen and menstrual blood, endogamy, levirate marriage, and social regulations based on the assumption that women are sexual properties subject to men.

Therefore God has given them up to uncleanness, men having sex with men, women having sex with women» [Romans 1:23 - 27].