Löydetty 616 Tulokset: Good Works
Doubt not I will be a good suitor in your cause hereafter, so you abide loyal to the king’s interest. (2 Maccabees 11, 19)
And of the king’s own letter, the tenour was this: King Antiochus, to his good cousin Lysias, all health! (2 Maccabees 11, 22)
Thanking all such, and desiring them they would continue their good offices towards the Jewish folk, the army returned to Jerusalem, to keep the festival of the Weeks. (2 Maccabees 12, 31)
and himself called the elders to a council; his plan was, he told them, to march out and engage the king before he could reach Judaea and overpower the city, and the issue of it he would leave to the Lord’s good pleasure. (2 Maccabees 13, 13)
And what of Alcimus? Little it liked him to see all this good-will between the two of them, and their treaty-making; to Demetrius he betook him, and charged Nicanor with disaffection; was he not purposing to hand over his command to Judas, a traitor against the realm? (2 Maccabees 14, 26)
and Machabaeus, remarking that a coolness had sprung up, and their meetings were less courteous than hitherto, made sure this behaviour of his boded no good. Whereupon he gathered some of his company, and went into concealment. (2 Maccabees 14, 30)
It was this Nicanor that received information against one of the elders at Jerusalem, named Razias, a true patriot and a man of good repute; for the love he bore it, men called him the father of the Jewish people. (2 Maccabees 14, 37)
Thus it was his care to arm them, not with shield or spear for their defence, but with excellent words of good cheer.A dream of his he told them, most worthy of credence, that brought comfort to one and all. (2 Maccabees 15, 11)
And what saw he? Onias, that had once been high priest, appeared to him; an excellent good man this, modest of mien, courteous, well-spoken, and from his boyhood schooled in all the virtues. With hands outstretched, he stood there praying for the Jewish folk. (2 Maccabees 15, 12)
My son, here is good advice for thy heeding; listen to wise counsel, (Proverbs 5, 1)
Ay, but poverty will not wait, the day of distress will not wait, like an armed vagabond it will fall upon thee! (Wouldst thou see the good grain flow like water, wouldst thou see poverty take wing, thou must be up and doing.✻ ) (Proverbs 6, 11)
Six things I will tell thee, and name a seventh for good measure, the Lord hates and will never abide; (Proverbs 6, 16)
