Found 7 Results for: exacting
Blessed be your wisdom and blessed you yourself for today having restrained me from the crime of bloodshed and from exacting revenge! (1 Samuel 25, 33)
and that powerful kings have reigned in Jerusalem, governing the whole of Transeuphrates and exacting tribute, tax and toll; (Ezra 4, 20)
For as these ordeals were intended by him to search their hearts, so now this is not vengeance that God is exacting on us, but a warning inflicted by the Lord on those who are near his heart.' (Judith 8, 27)
comparable to the exacting task of someone organising a banquet, whose aim is to satisfy a variety of tastes. Nevertheless, for the sake of rendering a general service, we remain glad to endure this drudgery, (2 Maccabees 2, 27)
But do not be over-exacting with anyone, and do nothing contrary to justice. (Ecclesiasticus 33, 30)
because I was afraid of you; for you are an exacting man: you gather in what you have not laid out and reap what you have not sown." (Luke 19, 21)
He said to him, "You wicked servant! Out of your own mouth I condemn you. So you knew that I was an exacting man, gathering in what I have not laid out and reaping what I have not sown? (Luke 19, 22)