And therfore of you may be saide that ye were alway stedfast and obeieng youre souvereyn unto the jupardie and perille of dethe.
Jesus puts His servants to the proof, and not all who have set their hands to the plough continue stedfast in their work till the harvest comes.
It is only by those stedfast in the faith that he can be withstood (1 Peter v.
In this way the world that then was, the world which had endured and been stedfast from the Creation to the Flood, perished.
IV With that they heard a roaring hideous sound, That all the ayre with terrour filled wide, And seemd uneath° to shake the stedfast ground.
I Ay me, how many perils doe enfold The righteous man, to make him daily fall, Were not that heavenly grace doth him uphold, And stedfast truth acquite him out of all.
At these words, he seated himself, bending his stedfast dark eyes full upon me.
She raised her beautiful liquid eyes to Lucio's face, but he was not looking her way, and her stedfast gaze met mine instead.
But his associat Sebbie with great deuotion continued stedfast in the faith which he had receiued.
The stedfast in faith weary not, though the road be long and the wayfaring grievous.
In the meantime, we dare not cast away our confidence, but trusting in the name of the Lord, and staying upon our God, shall by his grace and assistance continue stedfast in our Solemn Covenants, and faithful in all the duties of our Calling.
It is good for us to be stedfast in our duty, and therein quietly to wait and hope for the salvation of God.
A tried stedfast woman is the one jewel of the sex.
It sometimes inspires a semblance of courage; she may determine; she may be stedfast long enough for him to take his measures to bear her away.
He sailed on a tranquil sea, the husband of a stedfast woman--no rogue.
I remember the heavenly morning of my return from my travels, and the same Laetitia meeting me, stedfast and unchangeable.
Now, such a war as this would have had no existence, if human nature had, in the exercise of free will, continued stedfast in the uprightness in which it was created.
And if he were never loosed, his malicious power would be less patent, and less proof would be given of thestedfast fortitude of the holy city: it would, in short, be less manifest what good use the Almighty makes of his great evil.
It is this thought of a most stedfast and patient spirit that has made so many noble martyrs, while Romulus has not had, and could not have, so much as one to die for his divinity.
A second encouragement to stedfast adherence to the Gospel lies in the fact that it "was preached in all creation under heaven.
First there is outwardly, an ordered disciplined array; and secondly, there is a stedfast faith.
So with this distinct definition of the precise danger which he feared, and this soothing assurance of his glad confidence in their stedfast order, the Apostle at last opens his batteries.
The condition is, generally speaking, a stedfast adherence to the Gospel which the Colossians had received.
She followed him, prepar'd to view The terrible behests of law; 50 And the last scene of Jemmy's woes With calm and stedfast eye she saw.
But when the queene with stedfast eye 145 Beheld her beauteous face, She was amazed in her minde At her exceeding grace.
Holy Spirit, to the stedfast gentleness of Bishop White and the gentle stedfastness of Bishop Seabury.
I raised my head and regarded her withstedfast looks.
It was Carwin that again intruded, and who stood before me, erect in attitude, and stedfast in look!
Once more I fixed my eyes upon the bed, in hope that this more stedfast scrutiny would annihilate the object which before seemed to be there.
I restored it to order, and seating myself on the bed, again fixed stedfast eyes upon her countenance.
My reason taught me that his conclusions were right; but conscious of the impotence of reason over my own conduct; conscious of my cowardly rashness and my criminal despair, I doubted whether any one could be stedfast and wise.
The Apostle says not--stedfast by your own resolutions and purposes; but--stedfast by faith.
Nor yetstedfast in your Will, but stedfast in the faith.
In addition to this it will be well to remind the inquirer, that the stedfast conviction of the existence, personality, and moral attributes of God, is presupposed in the acceptance of the Gospel, or required as its indispensable preliminary.
We should accustom ourselves to think, and reason, in precise and stedfast terms; even when custom, or the deficiency, or the corruption of the language will not permit the same strictness in speaking.
Hee on his impious Foes right onward drove, Gloomie as Night; under his burning Wheeles The stedfast Empyrean shook throughout, All but the Throne it self of God.
The storm blew over, and they remainedstedfast at their posts.
But we cannot tell how long he may mean it; nor can we tell as yet whether such a connection would be good for Rachel, even if he should remain stedfast in such meaning.
I knew thee was minded stedfast to take her," said Mrs. Sturt, "when it came out upon the newspaper how thou hadst told them all in Baslehurst that thou wouldst wed none but a Baslehurst lass.
She was founded like a strong rock, and was, with her stedfast earnestness, a staff on which her weaker mother might lean with security.
History is full of the records of men who have honestly believed every kind of error and heresy, and have been stedfast to the death, through persecution and torture, in their mistaken belief.
Begins--'Somtyme the worlde so stedfast was and stable.
O Socrates, thou stedfast champioun, She never mighte be thy tormentour; Thou never dreddest hir oppressioun, Ne in hir chere founde thou no savour.
And thogh he made a lover love a thing, And maketh hit seme stedfast and during, Yet putteth he in hit such misaventure, That reste nis ther noon in his yeving.
She had so stedfast countenaunce, So noble port and meyntenaunce.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stedfast" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
