Trouvé 901 Résultats pour: Sword Of The Spirit
Grief-stricken in spirit, I groaned and wept aloud. Then with sobs I began to pray: (Tobit 3, 1)
That day she was deeply grieved in spirit. She went in tears to an upstairs room in her father's house with the intention of hanging herself. But she reconsidered, saying to herself: "No! People would level this insult against my father: 'You had only one beloved daughter, but she hanged herself because of ill fortune!' And thus would I cause my father in his old age to go down to the nether world laden with sorrow. It is far better for me not to hang myself, but to beg the Lord to have me die, so that I need no longer live to hear such insults." (Tobit 3, 10)
So he called his son Tobiah; and when he came, he said to him: "My son, when I die, give me a decent burial. Honor your mother, and do not abandon her as long as she lives. Do whatever pleases her, and do not grieve her spirit in any way. (Tobit 4, 3)
He answered: "As regards the fish's heart and liver, if you burn them so that the smoke surrounds a man or a woman who is afflicted by a demon or evil spirit, the affliction will leave him completely, and no demons will ever return to him again. (Tobit 6, 8)
He summoned Tobiah and made an oath in his presence, saying: "For fourteen days you shall not stir from here, but shall remain here eating and drinking with me; and you shall bring joy to my daughter's sorrowing spirit. (Tobit 8, 20)
"As for me, I exalt my God, and my spirit rejoices in the King of heaven. (Tobit 13, 7)
My spirit blesses the Lord, the great King; (Tobit 13, 15)
So, my children, note well what almsgiving does, and also what wickedness does--it kills! But now my spirit is about to leave me." (Tobit 14, 11)
Then Nebuchadnezzar fell into a violent rage against all that land, and swore by his throne and his kingdom that he would avenge himself on all the territories of Cilicia and Damascus and Syria, and also destroy with his sword all the inhabitants of Moab, Ammon, the whole of Judea, and those living anywhere in Egypt as far as the borders of the two seas. (Judith 1, 12)
Descending to the plain of Damascus at the time of the wheat harvest, he set fire to all their fields, destroyed their flocks and herds, despoiled their cities, devastated their plains, and put all their youths to the sword. (Judith 2, 27)
Then at my return, the sword of my army or the spear of my servants will pierce your sides, and you shall fall among their slain. (Judith 6, 6)
They and their wives and children will languish with hunger, and even before the sword strikes them they will be laid low in the streets of their city. (Judith 7, 14)
