Talált 886 Eredmények: Community Life

• Do not grow too high and mighty, for fear you fall and cover yourself in disgrace; for the Lord would then reveal your secrets and overthrow you before the whole community for not having practised fear of the Lord and for having a heart full of deceit. (Ecclesiasticus 1, 30)

• Long life comes to anyone who honours a father, whoever obeys the Lord makes a mother happy. (Ecclesiasticus 3, 6)

• My child, support your father in his old age, do not grieve him during his life. (Ecclesiasticus 3, 12)

• Gain the love of the community, in the presence of the great bow your head. (Ecclesiasticus 4, 7)

• Whoever loves her loves life, those who seek her early will be filled with joy. (Ecclesiasticus 4, 12)

• A loyal friend is the elixir of life, and those who fear the Lord will find one. (Ecclesiasticus 6, 16)

• Keep your distance from the man who has the power to put to death, and you will not be haunted by the fear of dying. If you do approach him, make no false move, or he may take your life. Realise that you are treading among trip-lines, that you are strolling on the battlements. (Ecclesiasticus 9, 13)

• What has dust and ashes to pride itself on? Even in life its entrails are repellent. (Ecclesiasticus 10, 9)

• Good and bad, life and death, poverty and wealth, all come from the Lord. (Ecclesiasticus 11, 14)

• A human being has life and death before him; whichever he prefers will be given him. (Ecclesiasticus 15, 17)

• Do not count on their having long life, do not put too much faith in their number; for better have one than a thousand, better die childless than have children who are godless. (Ecclesiasticus 16, 3)

• He set knowledge before them, he endowed them with the law of life. (Ecclesiasticus 17, 11)