It behooveth us not to waive the injunction of God, but rather acquiesce and submit to that which He hath ordained as His divine Testimony.
For it behooveth no man to interpret the holy words according to his own imperfect understanding, nor, having found them to be contrary to his inclination and desires, to reject and repudiate their truth.
It behooveth him to prize this food that cometh from heaven, that perchance, through the wondrous favours of the Sun of Truth, the dead may be brought to life, and withered souls be quickened by the infinite Spirit.
John will not be king forever, and it behooveth us not to make ourselves odious to all men by helping him to his desires too much.
It behooveth thee not to conduct thine affairs according to the dictates of thy desires.
This, if ye judge fairly, is the thing that behooveth you, and beseemeth your station.
It behooveth man to show forth that which will profit all created things, and he that bringeth forth no fruit is fit for fire.
It beseemeth the king of the age to inquire into the condition of such as have been wronged, and it behooveth him to extend his care to the weak.
It behooveth them, however, to be trustworthy among His servants, and to regard themselves as the representatives of all that dwell on earth.
It behooveth you, in this day, to proclaim aloud the Most Great Name among the nations.
And as the human heart, as fashioned by God, is one and undivided, it behooveth thee to take heed that its affections be, also, one and undivided.
Ponder this in thy heart; how it behooveth thee to be.
For since a knight is captain of a battle, the life of them that shall be under him lieth in his hand, and therefore behooveth him to be wise and well advised.
And forsomuch it behooveth to see well to that when the time of battle cometh, that he borrow not, nor make no curtailment.
This behooveth such as are firm and steadfast in the Covenant, which is throbbing within the heart of the whole creation!
Therefore, it behooveth one to first ponder over these calamities and wistfully accept them, then undertake to spread the fragrances of God and exalt His Word.
It behooveth thee to spend thy life, body and blood in the path of God, for this mighty gift.
Be isolated from the grades of self and desire, so that thou mayest succeed in that which behooveth the service of the Kingdom of God, and that thou mayest be healed from every disease and sickness.
Such prosperity, success, blessing and salvation behooveth one like you!
It behooveth one like thee to endure every trial, to be pleased with the decree and to commit all thy affairs to God, so that thou mayest be a calm, approved and pleasing soul before God.
This behooveth such as believe in the divine unity!
It behooveththee to thank God for this great gift and say: “O my Lord!
It behooveth thee to sever thyself from all desires save thy Lord, the Supreme, expecting no help or aid from anyone in the universe, not even from thy father or children.
There is no peace for thee save by renouncing thyself and turning unto Me; for it behooveth thee to glory in My name, not in thine own; to put thy trust in Me and not in thyself, since I desire to be loved alone and above all that is.
Therefore it behooveth you, O creatures of God, to help your own selves and to believe in the Verses revealed by Me.
It behooveth you all to be one indivisible people; thus should ye return unto Him Whom God shall make manifest.
May God save thee, shouldst thou seek any evidence according to thy selfish desire; rather it behooveth thee to uphold the unfailing proof which God hath appointed.
Rather it behooveth thee to be a discerning divine, or to walk with insight in the way of God by obeying a true leader of religion.
It behooveth you to proclaim the Cause of God unto all created things as a token of grace from His presence; no God is there but Him, the Most Generous, the All-Compelling.
It behooveth you to await the Day of the appearance of .
It behooveth you to await the Day of the appearance of Him Whom God shall manifest.
Since thou hast faithfully obeyed the true religion of God in the past, it behooveth thee to follow His true religion hereafter, inasmuch as every religion proceedeth from God, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.
On no account is this acceptable, inasmuch as it behooveth man, upon reaching the age of nineteen, to render thanksgiving for the day of his conception as an embryo.
Therefore it behooveth you to return unto God even as ye were brought forth into existence, and to utter not such words as why or nay, if ye wish your creation to yield fruit at the time of your return.
It behooveth you to cling to the testimony of your own Faith and to observe the ordinances laid down in the Bayán.
It behooveth you to consider how the people unto whom the Qur’án was given were debarred from the Truth, for indeed ye will act in a like manner, thinking that ye are doers of good.
It behooveth you to remain silent before His Throne, for indeed of all the things which have been created between heaven and earth nothing on that Day will be deemed more fitting than the observance of silence.
It behooveth Thy loved ones to shed tears of blood for that which hath befallen the faithful at the hands of the wicked and the oppressors on the earth.
It behooveth Thy grace and Thy bounty that have compassed Thy dominions on earth and in heaven, to vouchsafe unto Thy newly welcomed one Thy gifts and Thy bestowals, and the fruits of the tree of Thy grace!
Then saith the varlet within himself: "It behoovethme to go comfort that old man and foolish.
For even now the merchants and pilgrims, whom it behooveth me to bring to ground, fare along the highroad, and now they will go their way unhindered; and as God may aid me, this weighs heavy upon me.
His heart travaileth and his body is anguished, and it behooveth the twain to dispart, and the soul to leave the body.
But now it behooveth me to speak and tell and relate a tale I heard of a king in the land of paynimry, who of old was a right great lord and a full loyal Saracen.
Yet a little more it behooveth me to say: come what may, do ye the right.
And I indeed will show my high descent to the city, striking home to my heart with the sword; but thee, on the other hand, it behooveth to act in concert with my bold attempts.
But the Gods the arbiters of the cause shall pass on thee most sacredly their decree on the hill of Mars, in which itbehooveth thee to be victorious.
It behooveth them not to rest for a moment, neither to seek repose.
It behooveth you to call to mind with tenderness the trials of His Holiness, the Exalted One, and show your fidelity to the Ever-Blest Beauty.
Then the fiddler spake: "Sir Hagen, my friend, it behooveth us to bear these cares together.
He spake: "Sith we be now nearing my lands at home, it behooveth me to send a messenger to the dear sister of mine and to my mother, too, that we draw near the Rhine.
Haste ye to do the pleasure of God, and war ye valiantly, as it behooveth you to war, for the sake of proclaiming His resistless and immovable Cause.
It behooveth thee when thou hearest His Voice calling from the seat of glory to cast away all that thou possessest, and cry out: ‘Here am I, O Lord of all that is in heaven and all that is on earth!
At this moment it behooveth us to turn unto the Desired One, and cleave unto these most sublime words: "O God, my God!
It behooveth man to show forth that which will benefit mankind.
It behooveth whosoever hath set his face towards the Most Sublime Horizon to cleave tenaciously unto the cord of patience, and to put his reliance in God, the Help in Peril, the Unconstrained.
It behooveth them to be the trusted ones of the Merciful among men and to regard themselves as the guardians appointed of God for all that dwell on earth.
Sir Thomas then said unto William, "It behooveth thee to stand clear of yon Joseph, unless when thou mayest call to thy aid the Matthew Atterend thou speakest of.
Therefore it behooveth your tragedy-man to provide a rich assortment of them, in order to strike the auditor with awe and wonder.
Let Ephraim read them, then; it behooveth not me, a Master of Arts, to con a whelp's whining.
Wherefore it behooveth us to preserve God's tokens, nor to fling them away, nor to confound, as far as in us lies, the things that distinguish the sexes.
But let me be bold in them, and then ye shall see such a look, such a guise, as behooveth me to wear.
But it behooveth no man to be unhappy through any person, but happy through all, and most of all through God, which hath framed us to that end.
But thou, albeit thou be yet no Socrates, yet as one that would be Socrates, so it behooveth thee to live.
And it behooveth a man to play a soldier's part, and do all at the nod of his commander; yea, and if it be possible, to divine what he intendeth.
It behooveth every man to blot out the trace of every idle word from the tablet of his heart, and to gaze, with an open and unbiased mind, on the signs of His Revelation, the proofs of His Mission, and the tokens of His glory.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "behooveth" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
