Sentences with phrase «weak things of»

But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty (1 Cor 1:27)

1CR 1:27 - 29 «But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, [yea], and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: That no flesh should glory in his presence.»

What implications does Paul's statement, «God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong» (I Cor 1:27) have for the way we communicate as Christians?

God has chosen the foolish things of this world to shame the wise, and the weak things of this world to shame the things which are strong.

«For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: That no flesh should glory in his presence.»

27 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;

But God has CHOSEN the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God HAS CHOSEN the WEAK things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; I beleive God loves the poor, simple, uneducated of His creation, see Acts 4:13, and He extends His salvation to the sinful, see Luke 11:13.

DH «I am in favour of recovering the biblical understanding of shaming in the sense that «God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong» 1 cor 1:27... as an encouragement to anyone who is a victim (and therefore considered weak in the eyes of the world) that there is a greater power to call on in order to shame... any person in a position of power in the church that is using their power to oppress rather than serve... Does that help or hinder?»

God has a pattern of choosing the «weak things of the world to shame the strong.»

The makeup of the group underscores another popular religious theme in King's work that's reflected in this line from the apostle Paul in the first Book of Corinthians: «God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.»

But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; — 1 Corinthians 1:27, NKJV

What the world would have looked at as something undesirable: a poor young mother, Paul's handicap — is God using the «weaker things of the world».

Not exact matches

The two weakest forms of trademark are descriptive names, or generic names, for example «candy» or «soda», when your product is actually those things.

So while you think your weak spot might be on the tech - side of things, it's probably not, or it's only the tip of the iceberg.

But then they said, «Why would a Cabinet member bring up the idea of a weaker dollar when things are going so well?»

It was just a month I had to go away, but identifying the places where I was weakest in those down times and making it my mission to fill those weaknesses with the best people I could find really relieved a lot of pressure on me and allowed me to concentrate on the things I do best.

Here are six examples of the hard things that truly strong leaders do that average and weak leaders do not.

One of the things that makes us feel weak as negotiators — and it's those of us who feel weak that are likely to go looking for advice — is the sense that the other side has more information than we do.

Wall Street stock futures are lower this morning over renewed fears for the global economy after some weak Japanese economic data and some routine gloom from the Bank of England, which is worried, among other things, by the potential impact of the U.K.'s vote on whether to leave the E.U..

The worst thing a man could be accused of being is feminine, since femininity is, in contrast, just another word for weak, passive, and fit to be dominated by other men.

«It looks just like yesterday at this time where things are weaker (in) general overseas, but people look optimistic at the open,» said Randy Frederick, managing director of trading and derivatives at Charles Schwab.

Use that knowledge to capitalize on the things that you do well, and avoid the risks of getting in over your head in your weaker areas, Buffett advises.

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From my perspective, that look would tell them several things: 1) the U.S. economy is in recession, 2) the combination of weak producer prices and rising wage and benefits costs means that profit margins continue to be under pressure.

Nouriel Roubini, one of a handful of economists said to have foreseen the financial crisis, counts 10 things that could cause trouble, if they aren't doing so already, including the bursting of asset - price bubbles, unusually weak business investment, and extreme income inequality.

So the only way you're going to be able to see it is that if you're if you're behind him then you've got to stand up and the next thing you know everyone in the entire auditorium or wherever they're watching this is now standing up and the only thing that's happening is that everyone's legs are getting weaker and they're more annoyed that they're having to stand up and they can't get high enough to see the show because everyone around them is taking advantage of this.

The Fed might be able to stir things up next week, but despite the extremely high level of the most valuable valuation measures (CAPE, P / S...) and the weak market internals, the price action makes a break - out to new highs very likely here.

Things within the industry may change as a result — a shakeout of weaker players, perhaps, and a renewed focus on the most profitable customers — but overall the credit card industry remains a major player in the U.S. economy.

Instead, he sees parallels between the weak global economy in the years immediately after World War II and the state of things today.

The Government was able to convince Canadians in the election that making new investments and going into deficit was the right thing to do in an environment of weak economic growth.

«But definitely, policy makers have to be seen as not making things worse in terms of stimulating the stock market while the economy remains very weak.»

Five things that could derail the expansion, and one that would send it soaring The economy has its weak points, but giving innovation a freer hand would set off another round of growthThe expansion is going into its ninth year, but there are things that could derail it.

While balance sounds like a good thing, the Euro area has achieved this largely because of weak domestic demand and high unemployment over recent years.

this will cost obama the election by catering to the gays he wil loosel a large portion of the black and latino vote who are very conservative on this issue.and this will only make mitt romney stronger, with a weak economy unemployment as high as 8 % and a republican house there seems the last thing obama needs is to loose more votes that he will gain from this.he will loose the entire south including florida and many swing states.although he will win san francisco for sure.way to go barry

Well it is true that some people seek sorcerers to implement Jinn that are satanic demons into mankind or his house or his business to finish him or make his life miserable or to stop flow of his business income... In such case it is either you are religious enough and say your prayers often then it becomes hard for this to harm you or otherwise you need to find some one who practice exorcism to remove this evil... But many are just pretending to be good at it and help you not but squeeze money out of you with tales and stories... There is another type of possessions and that is not through a sorcerer but directly by coincidence what man is at his weakest moments and those weakest moments for a possessions are when you come through a great fear or when cry or laugh loudly in hysteria, or during a certain moment of mating... or even when sneezing loudly... That's why there are prayers to be said on daily basis to guard you from such things and specially if passing haunted places such as deserted houses but most evil ones are residents of public toilets and market places... Some of them even would claim that you have made a wrong action by which you have killed a dear one to them and for that they have possessed you and that is mostly night time such as throwing a cigaret butt to a dark place or stepping killing an insect or even an animal at night which could have been one of them or possessed by one of them... So this is true thing happening to many who suffer unexplainable illnesses or sufferings which could look like mental illness that comes and goes as pleased...

In a rich country with a weak knowledge of art, this was possibly a laudable goal - though perhaps a little too confident of government's power to legislate things like aesthetics and a little too sure of the nineteenth - century dogmas of man as perfectible and art as universal religion.

From the beginning of my time as editor of First Things, I've argued that progressivism represents a war on the weak.

Lynn: I think wvpv is saying the opinion of the controlling leader that anyone who leaves is weak and unwilling to work things out and are therefore against unity.

If you feel like God is telling you to leave, before doing that, there are always opportunities to, as you said, to do things like «personally loving our neighbors, hanging out with «sinners,» spending time with societal rejects, defending the cause of the weak, and a variety of other ways of living that look just like Jesus.»

We tell each other how each other's book has changed each of our lives and how God is in the business of miracles, of using obedient yeses from the weak and unlikely to do the impossible, and how heat like this does crazy things to our hair.

That «The God of Christianity is so weak that He could allow such an evil thing to happen to His own Son» is a concept or idea that he found completely repulsive and a complete insult to the power of God.

For consider your call, brethren; not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth; but God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong, God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God.

I would call myself a few negative things, but «weak» isn't one of them.

I concluded at the time of the riots that of all the things the government now needed to do, it was the married family which most urgently needed to be rebuilt: I was and remain as certain of that as anything I have ever written, and I have been saying it repeatedly for over 20 years: I was saying it, for instance, when I was attacking (in The Mail and also The Telegraph), as it went through the Commons, the parliamentary bill which became that disastrous piece of (Tory) legislation called the Children Act 1989, which abolished parental rights (substituting for them the much weaker «parental responsibility»), which encouraged parents not to spend too much time with their children, which even, preposterously, gave children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smack.»

You have more time on sunday to play with your kids and go to the park or go to a market or work at the food pantry — all kinds of things you can do instead of keeping your mind weak and talking to make - believe people in your head and listening to really boring music.

The weak minded always try to fall back on religion when they simply can't understand the meaning of things.

Gladys i sense your frustration but we have a teacher who explains the word to us he is wonderful he opens the word to me all the time i listen to him because from him comes wisdom he is the most humble and gentle of teachers and always leads us into truth.He is our friend our comforter and the one who empowers us when we are weak and he is the holy spirit and once we receive him he never leaves us.jeremiah33: Call to me and i will answer you and show you great and mighty things... brentnz

Kaylee if you have asked Christ into your life then the holy spirit -LCB- he is the spirit of Christ -RCB- dwells within you it is him that changes us all we have to do is tell him that we are weak in whatever area we struggle.You mention alcohol when tempted to drink just tell him Lord i am weak but i am trusting in your strength to empower me and he will thats is how we change.If we try and do it in our strength we might succeed for a couple of times then fall back into our old patterns.Then it becomes forgive me Lord for my sin we feel guilt and condemned and that is the work of the enemy who is out to destroy our faith in God and because of our feelings we go and do the same things all over again.But we have a better way and that is to trust the one who is able to overcome having been set free from my old life style of sin i am grateful each day to be walking in his strength not mine.So the Lord has given you the victory in Christ and even if we stumble sometimes in the process we remember there is no condemnation to those that are in Christ Jesus God bless brentnz

We are indebted to the Enlightenment for many things, but our charter for human rights is in the prophet's insight that each person, including the weak and oppressed, is the subject of infinite worth and divine love.

Here we were inducted into the mysteries of our national religion, reasonable, surprisingly masculine for a faith that might at first glance seem soppy and weak, confident, and perhaps above all things unself - consciously beautiful.