Gefunden 37 Ergebnisse für: Noble

• Turning to supplication, they prayed that the sinful deed might be fully blotted out. The noble Judas warned the soldiers to keep themselves free from sin, for they had seen with their own eyes what had happened because of the sin of those who had fallen. (2 Maccabees 12, 42)

• He then took up a collection among all his soldiers, amounting to two thousand silver drachmas, which he sent to Jerusalem to provide for an expiatory sacrifice. In doing this he acted in a very excellent and noble way, inasmuch as he had the resurrection of the dead in view; (2 Maccabees 12, 43)

• preferring to die nobly rather than fall into the hands of vile men and suffer outrages unworthy of his noble birth. (2 Maccabees 14, 42)

• When he had armed each of them, not so much with the safety of shield and spear as with the encouragement of noble words, he cheered them all by relating a dream, a kind of vision, worthy of belief. (2 Maccabees 15, 11)

• Encouraged by Judas' noble words, which had power to instill valor and stir young hearts to courage, the Jews determined not to delay, but to charge gallantly and decide the issue by hand-to-hand combat with the utmost courage, since their city and its temple with the sacred vessels were in danger. (2 Maccabees 15, 17)

• "Give heed! for noble things I speak; honesty opens my lips. (Proverbs 8, 6)

• Fine words are out of place in a fool; how much more, lying words in a noble! (Proverbs 17, 7)

• Many curry favor with a noble; all are friends of the man who has something to give. (Proverbs 19, 6)

• Blessed are you, O land, whose king is of noble birth, and whose princes dine at the right time (for vigor and not in drinking bouts). (Ecclesiastes 10, 17)

• For the fruit of noble struggles is a glorious one; and unfailing is the root of understanding. (Wisdom of Solomon 3, 15)

• terrible princes, hearing of me, would be afraid; in the assembly I should appear noble, and in war courageous. (Wisdom of Solomon 8, 15)

• Now, I was a well-favored child, and I came by a noble nature; (Wisdom of Solomon 8, 19)