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  • Did we not tell you as much in Egypt? Leave us alone, we said, we would rather work for the Egyptians! We prefer to work for the Egyptians than to die in the desert!' (Exodus 14, 12)

  • So Gad went to David and said, 'Which do you prefer: to have three years of famine befall your country; to flee for three months before a pursuing army; or to have three days of epidemic in your country? Now think, and decide how I am to answer him who sends me.' (2 Samuel 24, 13)

  • and Ahab said to Naboth, 'Give me your vineyard to be my vegetable garden, since it adjoins my palace; I will give you a better vineyard for it or, if you prefer, I will give you its value in money.' (1 Kings 21, 2)

  • He said, 'I have been talking to Naboth of Jezreel. I said, "Give me your vineyard either for money or, if you prefer, for another vineyard in exchange." But he said, "I will not give you my vineyard." ' (1 Kings 21, 6)

  • You prefer evil to good, lying to uprightness. Pause (Psalms 52, 3)

  • We understand that the Jews do not approve our father's policy, the adoption of Greek customs, but prefer their own way of life and ask to be allowed to observe their own laws. (2 Maccabees 11, 24)

  • Faithful love is what people look for in a person; they prefer the poor to a liar. (Proverbs 19, 22)

  • He has set fire and water before you; put out your hand to whichever you prefer. (Ecclesiasticus 15, 16)

  • Would I take pleasure in the death of the wicked -- declares the Lord Yahweh -- and not prefer to see him renounce his wickedness and live? (Ezekiel 18, 23)

  • But I prefer to fall innocent into your power than to sin in the eyes of the Lord.' (Daniel 13, 23)

  • You are from your father, the devil, and you prefer to do what your father wants. He was a murderer from the start; he was never grounded in the truth; there is no truth in him at all. When he lies he is speaking true to his nature, because he is a liar, and the father of lies. (John 8, 44)

  • No; it is a fault in you, by itself, that one of you should go to law against another at all: why do you not prefer to suffer injustice, why not prefer to be defrauded? (1 Corinthians 6, 7)


Como distinguir uma tentação de um pecado e como estar certo de que não se pecou? – perguntou um penitente. Padre Pio sorriu e respondeu: “Como se distingue um burro de um homem? O burro tem de ser conduzido; o homem conduz a si mesmo!” São Padre Pio de Pietrelcina