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Psalm 64:7-9
But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.
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Zephaniah 3:6,7
I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passes by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant.
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1 Corinthians 10:5-11
But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
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2 Peter 2:6
And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample to those that after should live ungodly;
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This ChapterShows How, when God Bestows Greater Favours on the ...
... Other afflictions.27 ... They cry out that she is deceiving her confessors, and tell
them so, citing examples of others who ... 216] True, she had led a wicked life and ...
/.../teresa/the interior castle or the mansions/chapter i this chapter shows.htm

Matt. xxiv. 1, 2
... the fifth, "they shall deliver you into afflictions:" the sixth ... For if there are
two wicked men, who have not ... one is not sobered even by the examples of others ...
/.../chrysostom/homilies on the gospel of saint matthew/homily lxxv matt xxiv 1.htm

Meditations for the Sick.
... detests and loves not; therefore it is said, that he suffered the wicked sons of ...
8. God uses our sicknesses and afflictions as means and examples both to ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/bayly/the practice of piety/meditations for the sick.htm

Concerning Persecution
... As it is in sin, a wicked man learns to be expert in ... What if we have more afflictions
than others, if we have more ... ix) Set before your eyes suffering examples. ...
/.../the beatitudes an exposition of matthew 51-12/21 concerning persecution.htm

On Christian Doctrine. Index of Subjects.
... Church, the, purged by afflictions, [1923]526; the keys ... on different occasions,
[2053]587; examples of, from ... Wicked men, judge others by themselves, [2075]564. ...
/.../on christian doctrine in four books /on christian doctrine index of.htm

Hebrews xii. 6-Apr
... words, from our own notions, from examples in ordinary ... that so great multitude of
the wicked, should not ... for indeed to enumerate all his [afflictions] is not ...
/.../homilies on the gospel of st john and hebrews/homily xxix hebrews xii 6-apr.htm

On Christian Doctrine In Four Books.
... 16.--Christ Purges His Church by Medicinal Afflictions. ... Chapter 19.--Wicked Men Judge
Others by Themselves ... Chapter 7.--Examples of True Eloquence Drawn from the ...
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2 Timothy iii. 4-Jan
... they are fitly adduced for various images and examples. ... For the wicked will possibly
be punished, but the good ... he passed all his life in afflictions, in tears ...
/.../homily viii 2 timothy iii.htm

Letter xi. Mental Cultivation. Reading.
... The afflictions which he brings upon the former are the wholesome ... accounts of
individuals, or of bodies of wicked men, who ... You may profit from their examples. ...
/.../letter xi mental cultivation reading.htm

Fifth Sunday after Trinity Exhortation to the Fruits of Faith.
... themselves, and you must expect the same afflictions from the ... a time the company
of the wicked conduct themselves ... It is proven by all the examples of Scripture ...
/.../luther/epistle sermons vol iii/fifth sunday after trinity exhortation.htm