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The Commandment and the Paraclete are yoked together with a resulting emphasis on discipleship as bearing true witness to Christ.
But sin, taking occasion by the Commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence.
Up to this point, Puritan Sabbatarians argued a dual nature of the Fourth Commandment.
God would never have left Jesus Christ, the Savior who never sinned, to violate The Fourth Commandment by observing the wrong day of the week.
In the Small Catechism, his explanations of both the First Commandment and the Sixth break the normal paraphrastic nature of the work.
What a terrible sin I was ignorantly committing, because of my lack of knowledge of the 2nd Commandment.
Hebrew letters and Commandment tablets, now faded into illegibility, were painted on the windowpanes.
Lies forbidden by the Eight Commandment aren't limited to what your clients or your employees can say!
The nearer things were to the Ark containing the Commandment tablets the more holy they were.
The Commandment forbidding adultery corresponds to legal rules that survive in American law only vestigially.
The just use of this power, far from involving the crime of murder, is an act of paramount obedience to this Commandment which prohibits murder.
The First Commandment goes to Mrs Wallström and her team.
The end of the Commandment is the preservation and security of human life.
It is a commandment we obey or a proposition we seek to uphold, not an indisputable natural fact like gravity.
We have not retained the commandment against making graven images because it is no longer relevant.
It is moreover expressed by a disannulling of the commandment, the commandment of the priesthood, and of sacrifices and rites belonging to it.
The third commandment also historically shaped American law and jurisprudence.
Now he doesn't tell people that these images are gods, per se, but he clearly violates the commandment against graven images.
Where the commandment does fall down is its lack of relevance to tenement life.
The minimum that one can give to fulfill this commandment is one-third of a shekel per year.
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He immediately points out that sins against this commandment include not helping one's neighbor in preventing unchastity.
It went totally against Jesus' commandment love thy neighbour as much as yourself.
It was the minority view that the appeal to the fifth commandment instead of to Chapter 31 of the Westminster Confession was incorrect.
My mind sped from the first commandment to Paul's advice about eating food offered to idols.
The second commandment also relates to the problem of idolatry and warns us against worship of the true God in a false way.
They are so structured that acceptance of the relationship created by the first commandment entails obedience to all the rest.
Therefore we should obey the commandment of the Prophet in order to prosper in the hereafter.
We see in the first commandment that we are not free to worship other gods.
But there is this commandment, the commandment to be holy, which prohibits such behaviors.
Sins against the first commandment, not the sixth, are still our most frequent failure.
But I find the category of grave external sin against the sixth commandment too broad for the reasons I have stated.
Paul believed in the commandment that was truly good and just, and yet the twelve kinds of sin were alive and festering in his heart.
Satan, working through unconsecrated leaders of the church, tampered with the fourth commandment also, and essayed to set aside the ancient sabbath.
This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.
The commandment to love God is one of the six constant commandments.
The ninth commandment requires that one overcome carnal concupiscence in thought and in desire.
Now, choosing the tradition of men rather than the commandment of God was openly and straightforwardly reproved by Jesus.
The Lord has been greatly dishonored by those who have not kept the Sabbath according to the commandment, either in the letter or in the spirit.
And it is in the mitzvah, the divine commandment, that this relationship of love with God is permanently renewed.
He deplored the loss of old Anglo-Saxon words like inwit, earthtillage and bodeword, replaced by conscience, agriculture and commandment.
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Too rich for a rebate Blunkett's commandment Own goal Waiting for Butler Who chooses what?
In the Holy Scriptures every commandment and order has its significance and place.
The beard is rather a sign of masculinity, partially religious commandment, a sign of ethnic affiliation or political avowal or simply a status symbol.
Receiving a commandment to Silas and Timothy that they should come to him with all speed, they departed.
His venial sin was thus raised to the level of commandment breach.
The second commandment is that intelligence assessment must be policy neutral.
A teacher of the law, who is impressed by the answers Jesus has been giving, asks him what the greatest commandment is.
This commandment also instructs them to deter public false teaching, and to punish the obstinate.
A 1791 law calls for whipping, jail time and ruinous fines for breaking the sixth commandment.
America is coming dangerously close to replacing the second commandment with the Second Amendment.
Perhaps you might find in a particular ritual or commandment a way of expressing your sense of awe.
Jesus' new commandment is that his followers practice love, agape.
It was her husband who had instructed her concerning the commandment.
That is why Paul confessed that sin took the opportunity by the commandment to produce in him all manners of evil desire.
The seventh commandment is thou shalt not admit adultery.
The first commandment was when Eve told Adam to eat the apple.
Sin, in other words, deceived Paul by taking advantage of the commandment.
According to him, suicide violated the biblical commandment against killing and was ultimately the most dangerous of sins because it precluded an opportunity for repentance.
May this commandment, through the help of our good Lord, be firmly rooted in our hearts during this Faith and Order meeting, and in our lives always.
And therefore I conclude that they who gainstood his commandment resisted not the ordinance of God.
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To become ethical, this self is to be devastated, traumatized, unthroned, by the commandment to substitute the other for itself.
I consider that in the first commandment where atheism and polytheism and allotheism are forbidden directly and principally.
See Berakhot I. 1: every commandment to be observed before sunrise should be fulfilled before midnight to remove the possibility of transgressing it.
This is another key commandment from the high priest of productivity: often, things are left undone because you haven't figured out the specific actions required in order to do them.
Since young people live in places characterised by all kinds of conflicts, they are to be catechised, strengthened in their faith and enlightened by the commandment of love, so that they can make a positive contribution.
There are class B people in each commandment of the Canadian Forces.
Jesus said that the greatest commandment is to love God.
So the two commandments are not interchangeable, as if we could automatically satisfy the commandment to love God by observing that to love our neighbour, or viceversa.
To Xerxes, this was the commandment of the god Ahura Mazda himself.
Finally, in the 1950s, '60s, and '70s Anglican churches wrestled with the issue of the remarriage of divorced persons, which was prohibited by dominical commandment.
Rather, this commandment expresses a goal that demands lifelong faithfulness, as it is lived by innumerous couples already, but cannot be guaranteed.

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Such a formula expresses the commandment of sexual ethics as we have defined it.
He gave to every one of them, said the Son of Sirach, commandment concerning his neighbour.
Then the Soldan gave commandment that they should all be slain with the sword.
These may always read the eighth commandment by leaving the negative out, and then take it in an injunctive sense.
But as no law of man can annul the commandment of God, so neither can it be done by any vow.
If any one imagines that this law is lax, let him keep its commandment one day.
So that in writing to you I run the risque of making a breech in the commandment.
With him, as with the average Frenchman, solvency was an eleventh commandment.
He said this so solemnly and paternally, it sounded like the eleventh commandment.
The commandment of love suspends every commandment, yet it perpetuates all.
But what authority have ye to convocate my subjects when ye will, without my commandment?
Be lambs in Jersey, but harry the rest of the world with a lion's tooth, was the eleventh commandment in the vier Marchi.
On the contrary, warning is given precisely against this treacherous and scandalous restriction which nullifies the commandment.
There's a commandment, isn't there, about honouring your father.
Every distinct apprehension of this central commandment agitates men with awe and delight.
The fifth commandment has not been and can not be abrogated.
For no man's law, no vow, can annul the commandment and ordinance of God.
In what ways does this commandment require us to assist our neighbor?
Sins against this Second commandment are common, but not small sins.
A special blessing is promised to those who keep this commandment.
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What does this commandment forbid, and what does it command?
This commandment forbids us to kill or injure other persons or ourselves.
And it is inspirited and cheered, and rejoices to fulfil the commandment.
Well, then, my first commandment is, Thou shalt not omit to shave every day.
I am at your commandment, body and goods, tripes and bowels.
Such a commandment, then and there, was that monition about Jenkins's Ear.
And therewithal she sent for him, for he was at her commandment.
Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
I wish I could imitate him when he came to the fifth commandment.

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