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Talált 512 Eredmények: Sęć

  • He is one, and he does not have a second: no son, no brother. And yet he does not cease to labor, nor are his eyes satisfied with wealth, nor does he reflect, saying: “For whom do I labor and cheat my soul of good things?” In this, too, is emptiness and a most burdensome affliction. (Ecclesiastes 4, 8)

  • There is also another vanity, which is done upon the earth. There are the just, to whom evils happen, as though they had done the works of the impious. And there are the impious, who are very secure, as though they possess the deeds of the just. But this, too, I judge to be a very great vanity. (Ecclesiastes 8, 14)

  • Whoever slanders in secret is nothing less than a snake that bites silently. (Ecclesiastes 10, 11)

  • Therefore, keep yourselves from complaining, which benefits nothing, and refrain your tongue from slander, because secret conversation will not pass into nothingness, and the mouth that deceives kills the soul. (Wisdom of Solomon 1, 11)

  • Therefore, by thinking about her, understanding is perfected, and whoever remains watchful for her, will quickly be secure. (Wisdom of Solomon 6, 16)

  • humane, kind, steadfast, trustworthy, secure, having all virtue, watching for all things and grasping all things with a pure and most delicate understanding of spirit. (Wisdom of Solomon 7, 23)

  • Yet, even without these, they could have been killed with one breath, suffering persecution of their own making and being scattered by your spirit of virtue; but you have ordered all things in size and number and weight. (Wisdom of Solomon 11, 21)

  • so that they might worthily secure the sojourn of the children of God, in the land which is most beloved by you. (Wisdom of Solomon 12, 7)

  • For the impious, having refused to know you, have been scourged by the strength of your arm, enduring persecution by unusual waters, and by hailstorms, and by rain storms, and being consumed by fire. (Wisdom of Solomon 16, 16)

  • Indeed, at a certain time, the fire was subdued, so as not to burn away the animals, which were sent against the impious; and so that, in seeing this, they might know that they are suffering persecution by the judgment of God. (Wisdom of Solomon 16, 18)

  • And, while they thought to escape notice in their secret sins, they were scattered under a dark veil of oblivion, being horribly afraid, and having been disturbed with great astonishment. (Wisdom of Solomon 17, 3)

  • For the just children of goodness were secretly offering sacrifice, and in agreement they administered the law of justice, so that both good and bad would be able to receive justice, and so that you might now approve of their chanting to the father. (Wisdom of Solomon 18, 9)


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