Talált 7429 Eredmények: Fear Of The Lord
"The Lord God is watching over us and in truth has compassion on us, as Moses declared in his song which bore witness against the people to their faces, when he said, `And he will have compassion on his servants.'" (2 Maccabees 7, 6)
The mother was especially admirable and worthy of honorable memory. Though she saw her seven sons perish within a single day, she bore it with good courage because of her hope in the Lord. (2 Maccabees 7, 20)
Do not fear this butcher, but prove worthy of your brothers. Accept death, so that in God's mercy I may get you back again with your brothers." (2 Maccabees 7, 29)
And if our living Lord is angry for a little while, to rebuke and discipline us, he will again be reconciled with his own servants. (2 Maccabees 7, 33)
So he died in his integrity, putting his whole trust in the Lord. (2 Maccabees 7, 40)
They besought the Lord to look upon the people who were oppressed by all, and to have pity on the temple which had been profaned by ungodly men, (2 Maccabees 8, 2)
As soon as Maccabeus got his army organized, the Gentiles could not withstand him, for the wrath of the Lord had turned to mercy. (2 Maccabees 8, 5)
Others sold all their remaining property, and at the same time besought the Lord to rescue those who had been sold by the ungodly Nicanor before he ever met them, (2 Maccabees 8, 14)
But Maccabeus gathered his men together, to the number six thousand, and exhorted them not to be frightened by the enemy and not to fear the great multitude of Gentiles who were wickedly coming against them, but to fight nobly, (2 Maccabees 8, 16)
And when they had collected the arms of the enemy and stripped them of their spoils, they kept the sabbath, giving great praise and thanks to the Lord, who had preserved them for that day and allotted it to them as the beginning of mercy. (2 Maccabees 8, 27)
When they had done this, they made common supplication and besought the merciful Lord to be wholly reconciled with his servants. (2 Maccabees 8, 29)
having been humbled with the help of the Lord by opponents whom he regarded as of the least account, took off his splendid uniform and made his way alone like a runaway slave across the country till he reached Antioch, having succeeded chiefly in the destruction of his own army! (2 Maccabees 8, 35)
