Use "epistle" in a sentence

1. We can read the teaching of the Holy Spirit in the epistle of James,

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2. In Ephesians chapter 2 we have our first mention of these powers (at least in this epistle)

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3. From verse 4, of the purported Epistle of Paul the

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4. But the best source of toilet paper was the letters from home and many an epistle as long as it was only talking of trivialities had gone south down the hole

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5. Paul’s epistle to the Corinthians,” he muttered

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6. He carefully folded up the multi-paged epistle he was reading, gingerly forcing the corners into its tight-fitting envelope

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7. brought this epistle of Phurim, which they said was the same, and that Lysimachus the son of Ptolemeus, that was in Jerusalem, had

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8. have read the epistle which you have sent to me, therefore I commanded to make diligent search, and it has been found that that city

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9. In the Epistle to the Romans, the apostle Paul states quite clearly that no one can be

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10. the Epistle to the Romans Chapter 10: 3 to 5 Paul was probably thinking of this

11. 1 These are the words of that epistle which Baruch the son of Neriah sent to the nine and a half tribes, which were across the river

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12. how I have been the more careful to leave you the words of this epistle before I die, that you may be comforted regarding the evils

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13. 7 Moreover let this epistle be for a testimony between

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14. fathers, and forget not the festivals and the Sabbaths; 9 and deliver this epistle and the traditions of the law to your sons after you, as

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15. on the Epistle to the

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16. Epistle to the Romans

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17. 22 And this is the copy of the epistle which the senate wrote back again in tables of brass, and sent to Jerusalem, that there they

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18. his letter or Epistle to the Romans

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19. The whole of the Epistle to the Romans is one long presentation in favour of equali-

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20. 25 Then the king wrote back again to Rathumus the storywriter to Beeltethmus to Semellius the scribe and to the rest that were in commission and dwellers in Samaria and Syria and Phenice after this manner; 26 I have read the epistle which you have sent to me therefore I commanded to make diligent search and it has been found that that city was from the beginning practising against kings; 27 And the men in it were given to rebellion and war and that mighty kings and fierce were in Jerusalem who reigned and exacted tributes in Celosyria and Phenice

21. He in His mercy knows: 12 Nevertheless do this for us your people: write also to our brethren in Babylon an epistle of doctrine; And a scroll of hope that you may confirm them also before you do depart from us

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22. 1 These are the words of that epistle which Baruch the son of Neriah sent to the nine and a half tribes which were across the river Euphrates in which these things were written

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23. 4 how I have been the more careful to leave you the words of this epistle before I die that you may be comforted regarding the evils which have come on you and that you may be grieved also regarding the evil that has befallen your brethren; and again also that you may justify His judgment which 5 He has decreed against you that you should be carried away captive?for what you have suffered is disproportioned to what you have done? in order that at the last times you may be found worthy of your fathers

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24. 7 Moreover let this epistle be for a testimony between me and you that you may remember the commandments of the Mighty One and that also there may be to me a defence in the presence of Him who sent me

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25. 8 And remember you the law and Zion and the holy land and your brethren and the covenant of your fathers and forget not the festivals and the Sabbaths; 9 and deliver this epistle and the traditions of the law to your sons after you as also your fathers delivered them to you

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26. 22 And this is the copy of the epistle which the senate wrote back again in tables of brass and sent to Jerusalem that there they might have by them a memorial of peace and confederacy: 23 Good success be to the Romans and to the people of the Jews by sea and by land forever: the sword also and enemy be far from them 24 If there come first any war on the Romans or any of their confederates throughout all their dominion 25 The people of the Jews shall help them as the time shall be appointed with all their heart: 26 Neither shall they give anything to them that make war on them or aid them with victuals weapons money or ships as it has seemed good to the Romans but they shall keep their covenants without taking anything therefore

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27. Apostle James the Less(er) (Apostle and advisor to the Jews and converts writing the Epistle of James to those Jewish converts who needed advice) "Is supposed by some to have been the brother of our Lord by a former wife of Joseph

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28. He was elected to the oversight of the churches of Jerusalem; and was the author of the Epistle ascribed to James in the sacred canon

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29. But I have neither seen nor heard of any such thing among you in the midst of whom the blessed Paul laboured and who are commended in the beginning of his Epistle

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30. They are subjoined to this Epistle and by them you may be greatly profited; for they treat of faith and patience and all things that tend to edification in our Lord

31. 1 Take into your hands the epistle of the blessed Apostle Paul

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32. 2 For joy and rejoicing will you all afford us if becoming obedient to the things that have been written by us you put an end by the suggestion of the Holy Spirit to the unlawful wrath of your discord according to the supplication which we have made concerning peace and unity in this epistle

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33. THE SECOND EPISTLE OF CLEMENT TO THE CORINTHIANS (2 CLEMENT)

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34. His vigorous style was better shown in his letter known as the First Epistle of Peter; at least this was true before it was subsequently altered by a disciple of Paul

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35. The only notable exceptions to this statement, aside from certain parts of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, are the Book of Hebrews and the Epistle of James

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36. writing to the Roman believers in the epistle of Romans

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37. Second, to whom is Peter writing in this epistle? For that, we must

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38. 1 Beloved, I now write to you this second epistle (in both of which I stir

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39. this verse, chapter, and epistle support it

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40. followed God’s instructions as he wrote each epistle

41. But I did have one request to him, and it was at his convenience; “would you write a letter for me to my wife and those back home? Seeing how my hands are tied, and you’ve been such a wonderful encouragement to me with your writing thus far, I thought of maybe writing a small epistle of reassurance to those that care, and to those that love me also

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42. Now if I could change the subject a little, could you tell me what James was talking about in his epistle when he spoke of the tongue, as it were a deadly poison?”

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43. With gentle fingers he spread the soggy epistle on the kitchen bench then easily deciphered the untidy scrawl

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44. This epistle was sealed with a kiss in heavy lipstick that clung in a sticky blob to the card

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45. this epistle, note that man, and have

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46. It was just the sight which was likely to move the heart of the converted man of Tarsus, the man who wrote the Epistle to the Romans, and had seen Jesus Christ face to face

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47. A CAREFUL reader of the Epistle to the Hebrews can hardly fail to observe that the words "let us" are found no less than four times in the fourth chapter

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48. But how did it all end? He gave up his profession, and the last Epistle St

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49. The proof of this is to be seen in the seventh chapter of his Epistle to the Romans, and the fifth chapter of his Second Epistle to the Corinthians

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50. Paul's Epistle to the Philippians is a very remarkable text of Scripture

51. Paul to particular Churches? In eight cases they are addressed to "the Church, the saints, the faithful brethren"�and in only one case (the Epistle to the Philippians) is there any mention of "bishops and deacons" in the opening address

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52. �Is an Epistle written to the Christian Hebrews? Not a word is said about "rulers" until you come to the last chapter

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53. James write a General Epistle? He addresses the "twelve tribes," and only names "teachers" in the third chapter

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54. Peter write a General Epistle? He writes to the whole body of the elect, and says nothing to the "elders" till he arrives at the last chapter, and even then he is careful to remind them that they are not "lords over God's heritage

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55. " As for the Second Epistle of St

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56. All the baptized members, whether men or women, if we may judge from the 16th chapter of the Epistle to the Romans, took a direct active interest in the welfare and progress of the whole ecclesiastical body

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57. To say that such persons are "regenerate" on account of their baptism, is to say that which seems flatly contrary to the First Epistle of St

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58. John's First Epistle, most certainly means a great deal more than being admitted into a state of ecclesiastical privilege! To say, for instance, "Whosoever is baptized doth not commit sin,�and overcometh the world," would be ridiculous, because untrue,- Moreover, the Church Catechism distinctly teaches that the inward and spiritual grace in baptism is not a mere ecclesiastical change, but "a death unto sin and a new birth unto righteousness

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59. Paul in the First Epistle to the Corinthians (see Matt

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60. For consider in whose hands the government of the world lay at the time when the Epistle to Timothy was written

61. chapter 2:11-14 of Timothy I ( Paul's first epistle to a man named Timothy) about the proper attire,

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62. again in the epistle to the Hebrews, chap

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63. this epistle, too, was written after the destruction of

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64. Epistle: A letter written and sent by an apostle of Jesus Christ, in the first 95 years of the New Testament church

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65. In the Epistle to the Ephesians, we are clearly shown the Biblical precedent for submission: “Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord

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66. In the epistle to Hebrews we are exhorted to: “Have confidence in your leaders and submit to their authority, because they keep watch over you as those who must give an account

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67. 16 And when this epistle is read among you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans; and that ye likewise read the epistle from Laodicea

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68. 27 I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the holy brethren

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69. Contemplate the emphasis in the Epistle of James on works instead of faith and the

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70. Commentary On Paul's First Epistle To the Corinthians, 1979

71. Adam Clarke in his Commentary on Hebrews 12:23, "In several parts of this epistle teleiov, the just man, signifies

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72. Furthermore, the Epistle of James in the New Testament, though clearly retaining veiled allusions

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73. the “Letter to Seven Churches” match both the Dead Sea Scrolls and Epistle of James

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74. 3:21); and the author of the Epistle to the

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75. and the Epistle of James directly support Old Testament wisdom texts that also use the term spirit to

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76. Proverbs, the Epistle of James, and other wisdom texts

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77. Adam Clarke in his Commentary on Hebrews 12:23: "In several parts of this epistle teleiov, the

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78. 3:21); and the author of the Epistle to

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79. Mike Wil is, “Commentary On Paul’s First Epistle To The Corinthians,” 1979, Guardian of Truth Foundation, church of Christ

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80. of this epistle teleiov, the just man, signifies one who has a full

81. Adam Clarke in his Commentary on Hebrews 12:23, "In several parts of this epistle teleiov, the

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82. 3:21); and the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews

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83. Adam Clarke in his Commentary on Hebrews 12:23: "In several parts of this epistle teleiov, the just man, signifies one who has a full knowledge of the Christian system, who is justified and saved by Christ Jesus; and the teteleiwnemoi are the adult Christians, who are opposed to the nhpioi or babes in knowledge and grace

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84. 3:21); and the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews describe the throne of God as enduring unto the aeon of the aeons (Heb 1:8)

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85. Mike Willis, “Commentary On Paul’s First Epistle To The Corinthians,” 1979, Guardian of Truth Foundation, church of Christ

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86. But it is better to abide by the comment of the author to the Epistle to the Hebrews (xi

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87. The author of the Epistle to the Hebrews, speaking of this very command, says, 'By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure,’ ejn parabolh~, in a parable; a mode of information, either by words or actions, which consists in putting one thing for another

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88. The answer of Jacob to the Egyptian monarch, in which, when questioned as to his years, he denominates his life a pilgrimage, indicates, as is argued in the Epistle to the Hebrews, a distant aim of the weary traveller, beyond the limits of the present state

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89. At every step backwards in time we learn the primitive antiquity of these ideas; the truth of the statement of the writer of the Epistle to the Hebrews,—who at least as a learned Jewish Christian (Apollos?) was an important witness to the immemorial antiquity of the natural belief,—that the patriarchs 'all died in faith,’ 'looking for a city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God’ (Heb

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90. In the Epistle to the Roman Church S

91. The writer of the Epistle to the Hebrews, expressing himself as if giving utterance to an acknowledged belief, says, 'As it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this judgment’ (ix

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92. The Antinomian error;—against which James directed his epistle

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93. * An attempt has been made to prove that this view of the Atonement is modern; but in ecclesiastical literature it is as old as the epistle to Diognetus, to say nothing of its obvious presence in the apostolic epistles

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94. We need not add to these two declarations—one of the Lord Himself, the other of His chief apostle writing his chief explanatory sentence, in his chief epistle, addressed to the chief church of Christendom

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95. And they are supported by the whole body of apostolic teaching; as in the statements of the epistle to the Hebrews, that 'He has put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself;’—that 'by His own blood He has obtained eternal redemption for us;’—that 'the blood of Christ, who through the Eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, shall purge our conscience from dead works to serve the Living God;’—that 'Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many;’—that 'this man has offered one sacrifice for sins forever,’ having 'by one offering perfected forever them that are sanctified,’—having (Col

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