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Example sentences for "striveth"

Lexicographically close words:
striuing; strive; strived; striven; strives; striving; strivings; stro; stroak; stroake
  1. Sternly replies the Almighty: Woe to him that striveth with his Moulder, a potsherd among the potsherds of the ground!

  2. Woe unto him that striveth with his Moulder; shall the clay say to its moulder, What makest thou?

  3. To rise striveth life, and in rising to surpass itself.

  4. Insatiably striveth your soul for treasures and jewels, because your virtue is insatiable in desiring to bestow.

  5. For he also that striveth for the mastery is not crowned, except he strive lawfully.

  6. But his care is, not that he shall labour, nor that his life is short, but he striveth with the goldsmiths and silversmiths: and he endeavoureth to do like the workers in brass, and counteth it a glory to make vain things.

  7. And every one that striveth for the mastery refraineth himself from all things.

  8. Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things.

  9. Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker!

  10. And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things.

  11. He also that speaks to the weakest, may make the learned understand him; when he that striveth to be high, is not only for the most part understood but of a sort, but also many times is neither understood by them nor by himself.

  12. He also that speaks to the weakest may make the learned understand him; when he that striveth to be high, is not only of the most part understood but of a sort, but also many times is neither understood by them nor by himself!

  13. Would not you think, if when you are shewing your son or your servant his faults, if he should do what he could to divert and take off is mind from what you are saying, that he striveth against you, and sheweth dislike of your doings.

  14. He that striveth lawfully, must be therefore very temperate in all the good and lawful things of this life.

  15. He that striveth lawfully, must take God and Christ along with him to the work, otherwise he will certainly be undone.

  16. Nor can he stand long in peace, who striveth not to be least of all and servant of all.

  17. Happy and wise is he who now striveth to be such in life as he would fain be found in death!

  18. My Son, a man often striveth vehemently after somewhat which he desireth; but when he hath obtained it he beginneth to be of another mind, because his affections towards it are not lasting, but rather rush on from one thing to another.

  19. Who hath a harder battle to fight than he who striveth for self-mastery?

  20. The enemy, knowing what profit and exceeding strong remedy lieth in the Holy Communion, striveth by all means and occasions to draw back and hinder the faithful and devout, so far as he can.

  21. She striveth not to reach A giddy eminence; an honest heart's True love content's her, and the quiet lot Which with this hand I humbly proffer her.

  22. Accursed, who striveth after noble ends, And with deliberate wisdom forms his plans!

  23. He tells us in quaint fashion, "Physicke is so studied and practised with the Egyptians that every disease hath his several physician, who striveth to excell in healing that one disease and not to be expert in curing many.

  24. P: Count ye the slaking of a pilgrim's thirst and tendance of the Inviolable Place of Worship as (equal to the worth of) him who believeth in Allah and the Last Day, and striveth in the way of Allah?

  25. P: And who doth greater wrong than he who forbiddeth the approach to the sanctuaries of Allah lest His name should be mentioned therein, and striveth for their ruin.

  26. P: And whosoever striveth, striveth only for himself, for lo!

  27. But I will to keep it hidden, that every soul may be rewarded for that which it striveth (to achieve).

  28. And so it is here; it is not every one that runneth, nor every one that seeketh, nor every one that striveth for the mastery, that hath it.

  29. My mother hath borne me a man of contention, one that striveth with the whole earth.

  30. My mother hath borne me a man of contention, and one that striveth with the whole earth.

  31. Woe to him that striveth with his Maker," Isa.

  32. Not every one that striveth is crowned, nor every one that runneth wins the prize; but he that doth it effectually so as to attain.

  33. No true christian that is justified hath any sin but what he hateth more than loveth, and would fain be rid of, and striveth against in the use of holy means.

  34. The law, and the prophets reigned until the time of Ihon: Since that time, the kingdom of God is preached, and every man striveth to go in.

  35. And every man that striveth in the games [that striveth for the mastery].

  36. The apostle's thought is the same as in his statement above, "Every man that striveth in the games exerciseth self-control in all things.

  37. And every man that striveth in the games exerciseth self-control in all things.

  38. For various longings stir secretly the minds of various men; yet each if he attain to the thing he striveth for will hold his eager desire for the time present to him, but what a year shall bring forth, none shall foreknow by any sign.

  39. I have joy that the whole state striveth for glory.

  40. Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker!

  41. Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things.

  42. The angels merited the crown of a happy eternity in union with God: "For he also, that striveth for the mastery, is not crowned except he striveth lawfully.

  43. And so it is here; it is not every one that runneth, nor every one that seeketh, nor every one that striveth for the mastery that hath it.

  44. The Christendom that is in Babel striveth about the manner how men ought to serve God and glorify him; also, how they are to know him, and what he is in his Essence and Will.

  45. Therefore be not dismayed at the temptations of the Devil, who seeketh and striveth for the Kingdom which he once had in thee, but, having now lost it, must be confounded, and depart from thee.

  46. Yet if war come, there is a crown in death For her that striveth well and perisheth Unstained: to die in evil were the stain!

  47. An homecoming that striveth ever more And cometh to no home.


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