Sentences with phrase «wicked plans?!»

Christians who claim to be loving, yet who brand homosexuals as sinful and wicked, are themselves full of prejudice.

Abraham intercedes with God in the destiny of Sodom, whose «sin is very grave» (Gen. 18:20) «Wilt thou indeed destroy the righteous with the wicked?

But has there ever been a more wicked policy, with more disastrous social consequences, than the «one - child policy» China began to implement in the early 1980s — a state - decreed population - control measure that resulted in, among other horrors, untold tens of millions of coerced abortions?

One is reminded of the treatment of the owner's agents in the parable of the wicked tenants (Mk 12:2 - 5 and parallels).

The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.

«O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou desiredst me: Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellow - servant, even as I had pity on thee?»

The words of the wicked to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.

Let's all curse them and those darn Atheists for being wicked and full of hateful lies.

Job thought he had a good case to argue before God but the heart of it is our hearts are deceitfully wicked no matter how good we have lived we are still sinners and certainly do not deserve the grace of God.In the book of Job there are some real jewels especially why we do suffer satans plan is to destroy us but Gods plan is to build our faith hope and love towards him in our time of suffering.brentnz

because Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to annihilate them, and had cast Pur (that is, the lot), to consume them and destroy them; but when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letter that this wicked plot which Haman had devised against the Jews should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

They are confident that they understand the workings of God's justice; the good are rewarded in this life and the wicked are punished.

Pictures of the terror by which rulers in the ancient world sought to maintain their authority ought not to be applied to God's exercise of his rule and should not, in my opinion, be used to suggest that Jesus taught that the wicked would burn for ever in hell.

The idea is rather that the desecration and desolation of the holy city were a part of God's judgment on the wicked and a trial of his saints as by fire (cf. Zech 13:8 - 9; Mal 3:1 - 4).

The Bible speaks of the reconciliation of the wicked to God, and of loving your enemies (that is, people you consider wicked) but precisely that aspect of God's work is excluded here.

The good are prosperous and happy; the wicked suffer for their wickedness.

Yet this wicked man was willing to throw the other servant into jail for this paltry sum of money.

(Matt 24:14) Staying on an island away from everyone, «just to devote themselves entirely to prayer», is contrary to Jesus direct command, with Jesus likening such ones to a «wicked and sluggish slave».

You mention trying to understand the «violent God» of the OT, but you say nothing about the evil, perverse, ways of wicked men.

The juxtaposition of this text from James with Mark's story of the healing of the Syro - Phoenician woman reveals a wicked sense of humor on someone's part.

This is not right not at all,,, IN THE BLOOD OF JESUS IN THE NAME OF JESUS I PRAY NO SUCH THING WILL HAPPEN I PRAY THAT THESE PEOPLE WILL LEAVE THEIR WICKED WAYS AND FOLLOW IN THE GLORY OF GOD AND HIS SON,,

Can I add that those people that were so wicked, one of the things they did was eat all the children and perform abortions to kill the fetuses?

All said and done you will not accept my position but the word is very clear: «but when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness and committeth iniquity and does according to all the abomination that the wicked man doeth, shall he live?

When he comes, he's girded with righteousness, all right, and he sides with the meek, but he does not smite the earth nor slay the wicked with his breath.

The vast majority of people under 35 consider Christian resistance to gay marriage as «wrong and wicked»... More

we have to fulfill that confession with our hearts and turn away from those wicked ways, so that only and then God will heal our land / heart of such sin.

«Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God?

As we see in Jonah 4:8, Jonah wants God to kill him, so that God will also kill the wicked and violent people of Nineveh.

It's so sly and wicked and filled with inside jokes for us English Lit nerds.

Landed in a fjord near Cape Finisterre, and overcoming various obstacles put in their way by a wicked (later converted) Queen, the disciples buried James's body in a place near the city of Iria Flavia, and, when their own deaths ensued, were buried there themselves.

I was involved with the Children of God in my late teens - in Texas — me and my ex was married and exploring a lot of religious groups — but I could see how wicked they were when they started separating the wives from their husbands and drinking and the leaders using drugs - so I left abruptly after 2 weeks - if I didn't know the WORD of GOD I would have been a fool of fools.

In general, within these communities people were not judged unjustly, partiality was not shown to the wicked, justice was given to the weak and the orphan, the right of the lowly and destitute was maintained, and the weak and the needy were rescued and delivered from the hand of the wicked..

Rarely does God throw lightning to smite the wicked.

It is amazing how the whole entire bible fits together once you come to the realision that the punishment for the wicked is death.

The Hellenistic Jewish text, Wisdom of Solomon, for example, pictures the righteous as gentle and forbearing in the face of persecution by the wicked, reproving but not physically opposing their foes, despite lack of earthly reward for their virtue.

I am a believer that the punishment for the wicked is death, which is what God was exercising on the nations that were wicked.

20 For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.

Have no fear of sudden disaster or of the ruin that overtakes the wicked, for the Lord will be at your side and will keep your foot from being snared.

However, God is not the author of sin and only the wicked and evil heart blame Him for the evil in the world.

They were so wicked, that the pregnant women and babies were doomed to suffer at the hands of evil.

it is man's own wicked heart and rebelliousness that causes God to look the other way

But when the gospel of Christ is wielded like a weapon against sexual assault victims, that's wicked.

Exodus 20: 1 - 20; Matthew 18: 21 - 35 You wicked servant!

The separation will not be according to race, colour or social standing but simply according to «the just and the wicked».

I pray that everything that was done for spite shall return back to e as a powerful blessing in the name of Jesus I ask lord that you bless me with confirmation to know that it's by your works that you're going to handle this matter and to stop them all in here from their wicked and nasty ways.

Guns are not the only tools that are used for wicked purposes.

This arises from a warped and stunted notion of sexual ethics which offers nothing to say about the subject other than that it's acceptable within marriage and unacceptably wicked in any other context.

When the attempt was made to apply it to individual destiny (which was scarcely in the minds of the earlier prophets), in the sense that the wicked are punished by misfortune and the good rewarded by prosperity, it appeared palpably untrue, not only to the sceptical author of Ecclesiastes, but also to the far profounder poet of the Book of Job.

My manager Pearline Graham main manger Kim Filardi over my department is soo nasty and wicked.

The second is eternal conscious torment rather than conditional immortality (aka anihilationism), and Jesus said «fear him who can DESTROY both body and soul in hell» and Psalm 37:20 «But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the Lord shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.»

So if God was not dealing with the sin issue (seeing as mankind returned to their wicked ways), it could easily appear like He is a mass murderer.