Sentences with phrase «verse like this»

Technically, this is what the Bible means by «religion» as we see in verses like James 1:27 where true religion that God accepts and pure and faultless is to look after orphans and widows in their distress and keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

I can't even read the NIV anymore now, because of verses like Ephesians 2:8, which make it sound like faith is the gift of God (a Calvinist idea), when, as you point out, the whole salvation package — really, the work of the cross for us — is the gift of God.

Second, with this view, what would you do with verses like Heb 9:27?

That Jesus learned seems pretty clear from verses like Luke 2:40 and 52 where it says that Jesus grew in wisdom and stature and in favor with God and men.

If you answered «No» to any of those questions, how do you understand verses like Proverbs 1:7 which tell us that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge?

There may have been truth in what he said, but when you read verses like:

It's important for us not to say, «Look here, the West has Jeffersonian values about the rights of women, values we'd like to see you adopt,» but to argue instead from the Qur «an itself, citing verses like the one stating that God has ordained love and tenderness between the male and female in marriage, or that no man has two hearts in one bosom.

Yes: It's not possible to fulfill verses like Hebrews 13:17 or 1 Timothy 5:17 without embracing some sort of differential in authority and honor — and these requirements must be fulfilled.

In it, King explores the isolation and public persecution Jeremiah faced, noting the many verses like this one that gives the reader a window into the prophet's burden.

Every one of the Christian fanatics on this site wield bible verses like some sort of sword, as if a line from an Iron Age catalog would ever sway the intelligent people on this site.

I was talking about the grand sweep of the biblical writers» attempts to describe God... but not such verses like bashing the heads of your enemies» infants against a stone stuff.

Sometimes verses like Psalm 143:2 are referenced by Calvinists to defend their doctrine of Total Depravity.

I do not buy into religion but I was raised in a Fundamentalist church and could quote Bible verses like and good Christian.

It is in the history book of the Jewish people that we read sobering verses like «Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my heritage» (Isa.

I do believe according to verses like John 3:16 and 1 John 5:13 that we should have confidence in our salvation.

These are usually verses like, «I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord» (Jeremiah 29:11) or «a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised» (Proverbs 31:30) or «God is love» (1 John 4:8).

It's been said before that you don't see a lot of wall calendars featuring verses like, «Happy is he who repays you for what you have done to us — he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks» (Psalm 137:8 - 9) or «Let a woman learn in silence with all submission» (1 Timothy 2:11).

Why are obvious verses like, «Watch out for false prophets.

The New Testament was definitely a transitionary period from the Law to the Fulfillment of the Law, and we see radical glimpses of it in verses like Galatians 3:28:

Sung and spoken in lyrical verse like Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet, the movie casts a host of community and gang members played by Angela Bassett, Jennifer Hudson, Wesley Snipes, Samuel L. Jackson and, oddly, John Cusack.

She composed verses like Tora.

We can find thousands of verses like these in the Bible.

This is often referred to spiritual death and is the death that we see used in verses like:

if not then you have look for a book which talks about tottaly absolutely monothiestic concept which is «I believe that there is One worthy of worship and I submit myself ot the same ONE and not any of HIS creation like human...» which is Al Quran... here is one verse i like to mention...

As you think deeply and ponder a verse like this, you will find your mind settling and God's presence will begin to dawn deep within you.

You can start this kind of prayer by taking a verse like Romans 5:8, «But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.»

Solomon ends that verse like this: «In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths.»

Many times portions of Scripture or verses like this cause Christians to split hairs.

Verses like this are everywhere in Scripture (cf. Matt 13:10 - 13), which seems to indicate that God only provides further revelation after we have incorporated His previous revelation into our thinking and practice (for the most part).

Not to mention those verses you like to quote for personal liability if you cause harm to a pregnant women

All verses like this and Matthew 5:28 (where Jesus talks about adultery in a similarly harsh manner, are meant to do is point us straight to verses of Paul's such as Romans 3:23 and Ephesians 2:8 - 9: it's the evidence Jesus provides that, no matter what, even if we never murder a single person or in any way commit adultery, we're nothing without Him... and, oh, yeah, it's the meter that shows us who we are and why we need Him, and only Him (John 14:6), to get to heaven.

There are lot more examples that tells one to work and seek the bounties of Lord from the earth... here is one verse I like to share with you:

The way we commonly try to apply it to contemporary life is largely based on cherry - picking the verses we like and ignoring vast swathes of the biblical material.

Many people believe our salvation is like a lottery until we die, but verses like this one show us we can be assured of our salvation before we die.

When the people get kicked out of our fellowships, or finally leave because they are so frustrated, we quote a verse like 1 John 2:19, «They went out from us, but they were not of us, for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us,» so that all of us can feel better about treating someone so wickedly, for their departure simply proved that they were «false teachers,» of the «spirit of the antichrist.»

Nonetheless, sometimes form over function wins, and this particular brand of automotive vanity has swept through the auto - verse like a hurricane, affecting both cars and SUVs, reaching from Hyundai to Ford to Jaguar to BMW.

-LSB-...] Seeing the way you organize your paintings in sequences or in verses like a discourse, you are at the limit between writing and graphics, painter gesture and semantics; this is the limit where you start to read a painting!