Sentences with word «wickedness»

The word "wickedness" refers to behaving in a very bad or evil way. Full definition
The apostle warned us that our fight is not with individual foes (how simple the problem and how simple the solution were Nixon the enemy, or even the men who direct the great transnational corporations that own little men like Nixon) but with principalities and powers, with the world rulers of this present darkness, with spiritual hosts of wickedness of a superhuman sort (Eph.
the spirit of wickedness in high places is now so powerful and many - headed in its incarnations that there seems nothing more to do than personally refuse to worship any of the hydras» heads.
And if salvation was to come, the only hope of it lay in the interior cleansing of the people's spirit — «O Jerusalem, wash thy heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved.
Everyone who is saved, is saved in some fashion because of Jesus Christ, who is no mere moral paragon, no mere teacher of noble truths about righteous living who came to a sad end because of human wickedness.
But art mirrors culture and, currently, the United States» most lucrative, popular artistic output is a genre that began as fanciful depiction of fighting Nazis, and has been dedicated to the notion that good people can fight back against wickedness ever since.
It isn't wickedness but thoughtlessness which makes him cause a series of awful deaths without ever meaning to.
With the coming of the computer age and the development of computer games, Wii, PlayStation and the like, parents are not only dealing with less space for their children to run and play, also with safety issues from human wickedness as well as massively increased traffic on the roads, but they now too have to pull their children away from sedentary entertainment like those listed above and find ways to keep them more active.
«Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord God of hosts.»
When wickedness comes, contempt comes also, and with dishonor comes disgrace.
And I realized that they were far more lost than anyone they'd ever consigned to hell — hard - hearted, blind, doing wickedness in the name of good.
For he who «bestows food or raiment on the poor, yet is stained with wickedness in his soul or body, offers the lesser to righteousness and the greater to sin,» for in giving to God his possessions he abandons his soul to death.19
11 So all Israel shall hear and fear, and not again do such wickedness as this among you.
My life was pretty good and then I was saved by Jesus and my life turned upside down but God is purging my heart of wickedness so that I can live with Him forever when that time comes.
«The loan is unacceptable and sheer wickedness by a government that has scant regard for civil servants and general welfare of the indigenes.
A holy God must punish wickedness, otherwise He wouldn't be just.
Governor Fayose's Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, quoted him as saying in a release issued on Sunday, that «Allowing fuel scarcity to persist for over two weeks when Nigerians are preparing to celebrate Christmas and New Year is the height of wickedness on the part of the All Progressives Congress (APC) federal government.
Islam points out that each man must choose for himself the way to happiness through good deeds or the way to unhappiness and punishment through wickedness.
Deuteronomy 17 ~ If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant;... 17:5 Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.
and how many people feel like shit because their pastor preached on what grave sinners we all are and what vile wickedness lies in the heart of man?
... The Lord, The Lord, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin.
So, one Gnostic interpretation of the Cain and Abel story might be that it isn't really about Cain's wickedness at all.
I did not really think we have such evil people amongst us, such wickedness amongst us as a people.
What human wickedness deserved such a consequence?
When tha truth comes out of wickedness comes forth to be examined by every1..
If we may put it so, the very wickedness of men gives God a new chance of creation.
The growing implications of the messy wickedness of the climate change problem are becoming increasingly apparent.
More to the point, they believe — as an article of faith, of irreducible conviction — that the Cameroons are bad people whose wickedness expresses itself in the slashing of the state.
THE CHURCH UP TO AND INCLUDING THE POPE HAS BEEN GUILTY OF FAULTY JUDGEMENT AND EVEN WICKEDNESS THAT CAUSED MISERY AND DEATH TO REAL PEOPLE.
God did this because of the extreme wickedness of mankind.
They may love wickedness more than truth.
By learning about yourself, your ups and downs, praying to god and rejecting and hating wickedness.
Mankind will reach a point where wickedness is such that salvation is impossible.
There is a cycle of wickedness if you haven't noticed.
By Obama's total lack of action to curb the violence against Christians, one would have to conclude that Obama has no real compassion for Christians... for those who have put their hope in Jesus Christ and have renounced wickedness and worldliness.
Is it possible for the act of a man to willingly scar his soul, to take wickedness into his person, to be Christ - like act?
This is the hidden wickedness behind open worlds.
The election broadcast follows comments by party president Tim Farron yesterday that Baroness Thatcher's government pursued «organised wickedness».
But when High WASPs crave just a little wickedness, we go to the dark -LSB-...]
In Aronofsky's Noah, we are given a brief recap of the creation of Man in God's image, Adam and Eve's temptation, Cain's wickedness spreading throughout the world, and Seth's descendants holding on to the glimmer of hope of their creators vision.
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