Trouvé 333 Résultats pour: Foreign Gods
The creatures that made them suffer and against which they protested, those very creatures that they had taken for gods and by which they were punished they saw in their true light; and he whom hitherto they had refused to know, they realised was true God. And this is why the final condemnation fell on them. (Wisdom of Solomon 12, 27)
Fire, however, or wind, or the swift air, the sphere of the stars, impetuous water, heaven's lamps, are what they have held to be the gods who govern the world. (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 2)
If, charmed by their beauty, they have taken these for gods, let them know how much the Master of these excels them, since he was the very source of beauty that created them. (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 3)
But wretched are they, with their hopes set on dead things, who have given the title of gods to human artefacts, gold or silver, skilfully worked, figures of animals, or useless stone, carved by some hand long ago. (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 10)
and have taken all the idols of the heathen for gods; these can use neither their eyes for seeing nor their nostrils for breathing the air nor their ears for hearing nor the fingers on their hands for handling nor their feet for walking. (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 15)
It has driven the powerful from home to wander among foreign nations. (Ecclesiasticus 29, 18)
Raise your hand against the foreign nations and let them see your might. (Ecclesiasticus 36, 2)
He enters the service of princes, he is seen in the presence of rulers. He travels in foreign countries, he has experienced human good and human evil. (Ecclesiasticus 39, 4)
for they handed their power over to others and their honour to a foreign nation. (Ecclesiasticus 49, 5)
And should people say to you, 'Go and consult ghosts and wizards that whisper and mutter' -- a people should certainly consult its gods and the dead on behalf of the living! (Isaiah 8, 19)
As my hand has found the kingdoms of the false gods, where there were more images than in Jerusalem and Samaria, (Isaiah 10, 10)
as I have treated Samaria and her false gods shall I not treat Jerusalem and her statues too?' (Isaiah 10, 11)
