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Example sentences for "rebellion against"

  • The Gracchi complaining of sedition' are nothing to the Sanhedrim accusing a Jew of rebellion against Rome.

  • It is rebellion, and it is rebellion against a Father's love.

  • And he began to stir his people up in rebellion against my people; therefore they began to prepare for war, and to come up to battle against my people.

  • Surely you are not honouring God when you say, 'It is all the same to Him whether a man loves Him and serves Him, or lifts himself up in rebellion against Him, and makes himself his own centre, and earth his aim and his all.

  • There is no possibility of the tranquil sense of union and communion with my Father in heaven lasting when I am in rebellion against Him.

  • For if a man lets his own will rise up in rebellion against God's, whether that divine will command duty or impose suffering, away goes all his peace.

  • The history represents that his Divine appointment was sufficiently known to make hostility to him a manifest indication of rebellion against God.

  • Arran was now in rebellion against him, and now in alliance with him.

  • What if I should adduce the example of a king's rebellion against, and revolt from a superior king, to whom he and his fathers both acknowledged themselves subject?

  • Euthanasia is an interference with the course of nature, and its herefore an act of rebellion against God.

  • Euthanasia is an interference with the course of nature, and is therefore an act of rebellion against God.

  • If interference with nature's course be a rebellion against God, we are rebelling against God every day of our lives.

  • Korah was far too wise a man to believe that God would permit success to a rebellion against Moses, and stand by indifferently, but the very insight that enabled him to look into the future became his doom.

  • Therefore will I now stir up rebellion against Moses, and overthrow all institutions founded by him.

  • Terrified by the desertion and threats of his own princes, who were encouraged in rebellion against him by the papal mandate, Henry felt the necessity of making his peace with Rome.

  • His high position, in such close connection with the divine administration, gave greater force to his representations, and many were induced to unite with him in rebellion against Heaven’s authority.

  • The gospel presents to them principles of life which are wholly at variance with their habits and desires, and they rise in rebellion against it.

  • Therefore still, notwithstanding this fear, they were rebels to him in their hearts, and when occasion and advantage offered themselves, they showed it by rising in rebellion against Israel.

  • Men in a state of rebellion against heaven, calling upon others to submit to God's gospel.

  • Rom 8) Suppose a man should live many days in rebellion against God, and after that leave off to live any longer so rebelliously, would this help him against the guilt which he contracted before?

  • And what greater demonstration can be given that such a man feareth not God, than to cry to God to be delivered from affliction to prosperity, and to spend that prosperity in rebellion against him?

  • We are not left ignorant of the consequences: To him the "end of those things was death," eternal death, for he died in rebellion against God.

  • To neglect them was to set up the standard of rebellion against God--deny his sovereignty--his right to give law.

  • Every thing of this nature, whatever may be its design, is rebellion against God.

  • And the lesson of it is, that all sin is, however little we think it, a rebellion against God.

  • Most men are not conscious of rebellion against Him, and to charge them with it does not rouse conscience, but they cannot but plead guilty to this indictment, 'God is not in all their thoughts.

  • The persons said to be rebels are his mother and grandmother; and I again ask, Was there the least intimation given to him by Mr. Middleton, or by any other person, of their being even suspected of rebellion against him?

  • Was it ever even insinuated to him that his mother had raised a rebellion against him?


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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