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1. “My son, if you receive my words, and store my commands within you, inclining your ear to wisdom, and applying your mind to reason; if you appeal to intelligence, and lift up your voice to reason; if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures – then will you understand reverence for the Lord, and will discover the knowledge of God; for the Lord gives wisdom, out of His mouth comes knowledge and reason; He has help in store for the upright, He is a shield to those who walk honestly; He guards the paths of justice, and protects the way of His pious ones; then will you understand rectitude and justice, and will keep to every good course; for when wisdom finds a welcome within you, and knowledge becomes a pleasure to you, discretion will watch over you, reason will guard you – saving you from the way of evil men, from men who use perverse speech; who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in ways of darkness; who delight in doing evil, exult in wanton wickedness’ who are crooked in all their ways, and tortuous in their paths – saving you from the wife of another, from the adulteress who plies you with smooth words, who forsakes the companion of her youth, and forgets her pledge to God; for her paths lead down to death, and her tracks descend to the Shades; none who go to her come back again, or reach the paths of life – helping you to walk in the way of good men, and to keep to the paths of the righteous; for the upright will live in the land, and the honest will remain in it; while the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the faithless will be rooted out of it
2. At this angle it would be easy to misinterpret her expression, but Ava had never been very pious to start with and had not closed ranks with the League and the Church once they were under attack
3. Even though we aren't getting along right now, I think Thom is a good and pious crewman and can carry out his duty in spite of getting a little too carried away with what he's finding
4. Thousands of pious
5. Although the actions of the people looked very pious it was
6. Inquisition just so they can annoy those pious sons of
7. Like him who perverts the revenues of some pious foundation to profane purposes, he pays the wages of idleness with those funds which the frugality of his forefathers had, as it were, consecrated to the maintenance of industry
8. It seems, however, to have been rather a pious exhortation, than a law to which exact obedience was required from the faithful
9. The pious purpose of converting them to Christianity sanctified the injustice of the project
10. More than a hundred years after the death of that great man, the Jesuit Gumila was still convinced of the reality of that wonderful country, and expressed, with great warmth, and, I dare say, with great sincerity, how happy he should be to carry the light of the gospel to a people who could so well reward the pious labours of their missionary
11. And such was the way the story was told from one generation to the next, as a reminder of the fallibility of even the most righteous and pious of men
12. He had not broached the subject because when he did ask the Pilgrim about things, even about relatively simple things like what they would eat or when would they stop for a break, the answers he received were nothing short of enigmatic, occluded by religious reverence and pious deference to God and his plan
13. He had to learn more; he could only think of the time they had lost preaching to themselves about Gods, trying to remain pious, while all this time they could have found out
14. One with a pious soul
15. a grief to the pious,
16. man, when his pious soul was tried with the fiery trial of tortures and rackings, move his besiegers through the religious reasoning
17. O deviser of tortures, and enemy of the truly pious
18. sin of the nation; and the Divine Providence saved Israel, previously afflicted, by the blood of those pious ones, and the propitiatory
19. The more pious it seems, the worse
20. of pious restraint in the face of sin
21. 4 Not so has ever a city when besieged held out against many and various machines as did that holy man when his pious soul was tried with the fiery trial of tortures and rackings move his besiegers through the religious reasoning that shielded him
22. 15 By the blessed death of my brethren and the eternal punishment of the tyrant and the glorious life of the pious I will not repudiate the noble brotherhood
23. 23 I too bearing with me a great avenger O deviser of tortures and enemy of the truly pious
24. 22 For they became the ransom to the sin of the nation; and the Divine Providence saved Israel previously afflicted by the blood of those pious ones and the propitiatory death
25. 30 And when the days of their purification according to the law of Moses were completed they took him up to Jerusalem to present him before the Lord as it is written in the law of the Lord Every male opening the womb shall be called the holy thing of the Lord and to give a sacrificial victim as it is said in the law of 33 the Lord A pair of doves or two young pigeons; And there was in Jerusalem a man whose name was Simeon; and this man was upright and pious and expecting the consolation of Israel; and the Holy Spirit was on him; And it had been said to him by the Holy Spirit that he should not see death till he had seen with his eyes the Messiah of the Lord; And this man came by the Spirit to the temple; and at the time when his parents brought in the child Jesus that they might present for him a sacrifice as it is written in the law he bare him in his arms and praised God and said Now loosest you the bonds of your servant O Lord in peace According to your saying; For my eye has witnessed your mercy Which you have made ready because of the whole world; A light for the unveiling of the nations And a glory to your people Israel
26. And I having been instructed in these things by him remained in Iconium many days; for there was there a holy man and a pious who also entertained us whose house also Paul had sanctified
27. 3 And you all being filled with a holy desire with excellent zeal and pious confidence stretched out your arms to Almighty God beseeching him to be merciful to you if you had in anything unwillingly done amiss
28. 3 All the generations from Adam even to this day are gone by; but they who have been made perfect in love according to the grace of God inhabit the abode of the pious and shall be made manifest in the visitation of the kingdom of Christ
29. Look, there is nothing noble or pious about being broke
30. Instead they claimed his pious ways, how he would feel more satisfied if I would give my thanks to God
31. and pious reverence – grace, blessing, fragrance, sanctification and healing
32. incorrectly by a pure, simple and pious soul, they can stil lead to miracles
33. In accepting baptism at the hands of John, Jesus was only following the example of many pious Israelites
34. The rabbis had long taught the Jews that the ignorant could not be pious or righteous
35. But Jesus' apostles were both pious and righteous; yet they were cheerfully ignorant of much of the learning of the rabbis and the wisdom of the world
36. Generalization and the certainty to have found the key is only a pious illusion, since we are convinced that following certain known rules and giving space to a rational model leads to the keys inevitably, blindly trusting our own talents, our own intelligence, but above all our past successes
37. How carefully you cleanse the outside of the cups and the platters while the spiritual-food vessels are filthy and polluted! You make sure to present a pious and holy appearance to the people, but your inner souls are filled with self-righteousness, covetousness, extortion, and all manner of spiritual wickedness
38. Do not you foolish men understand that the God of heaven looks at the inner motives of the soul as well as on your outer pretenses and your pious professions? Think not that the giving of alms and the paying of tithes will cleanse you from unrighteousness and enable you to stand clean in the presence of the Judge of all men
39. 8 Jesus blessed the poor because they were usually sincere and pious; he condemned the rich because they were usually wanton and irreligious
40. But if he did this with a view to the splendid reward that awaits who had gone to rest in godliness, it was a holy and pious thought
41. Antoninus, the illustrious archbishop of Florence, relates that a pious gentleman and a great friend of the Dominican convent in which the saint resided, died
42. Remember, you who read these lines, that the terrible fate of this pious gentleman will be the fate of all those who neglect to pray for and refuse to help the holy souls
43. Is emptied of this folk, this pious morn?
44. a pious Muslim by the Muslim community and observant of the
45. But they were pious
46. ” In spite of that conspiracy of smiles, the children became accustomed to think of their grandfather as a legendary being who wrote them pious verses in his letters and every Christmas sent them a box of gifts that barely fitted through the outside door
47. doubt, a jury and even the most skeptical judge would unquestioningly accept the word of a man of the cloth, regardless of their own religious denomination; here in the South, all holy men, whether liked or not by other congregations, were revered as pious, honest, and devout men whose sense of duty to the Master they served would never permit them to subvert the truth
48. He found it odd that such a pious man should conduct himself in such a fashion suggesting disapproval or hatred, though considering the previous meeting on the staircase this may merely have served as confirmation to the reverend’s true character
49. Would this man of the cloth, this holy and pious man, presume to break with his cherished ideals as a servant of God and take it upon himself to deliver justice? Would he rob the Lord of His vengeance so eloquently outlined in the Scriptures? Even though Feltus could testify that Preacher Cooper’s fanaticism in that he had readily admitted he would do that which God instructed him to do and even if he and the participants at the inquest could testify that he had lied about the French family, these debatable questions would surely override the entire defense that would center on this morally upright man’s character and assiduousness as a champion of righteousness
50. ostensibly to look for marks or tools of the devil, but in reality to further break the will of the accused and humiliate her, so that she might be quivering in fear and discomfort before ever being tortured by the pious henchmen