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promise and lion
However, tomorrow I shall fight like a lion, and this time, either I will kill Arjuna or I will make Lord Krishna break His promise of not picking up any weapons during the war.

promise and lamb
At the very beginning of the Abrahamic Covenant, the promise had been given by the God of Abraham that " God would provide Himself a lamb.

promise and will
Even today range riders will come upon mummified bodies of men who attempted nothing more difficult than a twenty-mile hike and slowly lost direction, were tortured by the heat, driven mad by the constant and unfulfilled promise of the landscape, and who finally died.
`` If you will promise to make it weak ''.
The next traditional step then was to accept it as the authoritative textbook of the Christian faith just as one would accept a treatise on any earthly `` science '', and I submitted to its conditions according to Christ's invitation and promise that, `` If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself '' ( John 7: 17 ).
Even if that's all the promise he ever gave or ever will give, the giving of it once was enough and you believed it then and you will always believe it, even when it is finally the only thing in the world you have left to believe, and the whole world is telling you that one was a lie.
Even when he is on the way to Memphis you will still have the promise resting inside you like a gift, and it is he inside of you.
" This was thought to favour the doctrine of absolute non-resistance, and accordingly the convention parliament enacted the form that has been in use since that time – " I do sincerely promise and swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to His Majesty ..."
Schweitzer found many New Testament references to apparently show that 1st-century Christians believed literally in the imminent fulfillment of the promise of the World's ending, within the lifetime of Jesus's original followers, He noted that in the gospel of Mark, Jesus speaks of a " tribulation ", with his coming in the clouds with great power and glory " ( St Mark ), and states when it will happen: " This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled " ( St Matthew, 24: 34 ) ( or, " have taken place " ( Luke 21: 32 )): " All these things shall come upon this generation " ( Matthew 23: 36 ).
“ Acts, then is a continuation of the Lucan Gospel, not in the sense that it relates what Jesus continued to do, but how his followers carried out his commission under the guidance of his Spirit .” Thus, part of the answer to the purpose of Acts is that Luke is writing to Theophilus, who is also mentioned in Luke 1: 3, in order to explain to him the occurrences that take place in the church that fulfill Jesus ’ promise to his disciples that “ you will be baptized with, the Holy Spirit not many days from now ” ( Acts 1: 5 ).
The promise has three elements: posterity ( i. e., descendants-Abraham is told that his descendants will be as innumerable as the stars ), divine-human relationship ( Israel is to be God's chosen people ), and land ( the land of Canaan, cursed by Noah immediately after the Deluge ).
* Promise: In return for Israel's promise to worship Yahweh alone, Yahweh makes promises to David and to Israel-to David, the promise that his line will rule Israel forever, to Israel, the promise of the land they will possess.
The implication, seen in the closing scenes of the book, with the release of Jehoiachin and his restoration to a place of honour in Babylon, is the promise to David of an eternal dynasty is still in effect, and the Davidic line will be restored.
## God will fulfill his promise ( )
From Aeschylus ' Agamemnon, it appears that she has made a promise to Apollo to become his consort, but broke it, thus incurring his wrath: though she has retained the power of foresight, no one will believe her predictions.
The Charge is the promise of the Goddess ( embodied by the High Priestess ) to all witches that she will teach and guide them.
" David Playing the Harp " by Jan de Bray, 1670. It is to Solomon that David gives his final instructions, including his promise that the line of Solomon and David will inherit the throne of Judah forever, and his request that Solomon kill his oldest enemies on his behalf.
Elijah tells her that God will not allow her supply of flour or oil to run out, saying, " Don't be afraid .. this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ' The jar of flour will not be used up and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the Lord gives rain on the land ," illustrating that the demand of the covenant is not given without the promise of the covenant.

promise and lie
The system should not force him to lie under oath, nor to go to trial with no promise of the ultimate outcome concerning guilt or punishment.
Many still remembered that Karmal had said he would protect private capital in 1978, a promise later proven to be a lie.
When Cyrus was sent by his father to be Satrap it was very important to him that if he should promise anything to anybody, it would not be a lie.
He will not go back on His word, nor can He act contrary to His promise and threat nor lie in what He reports, in contrast to what the Postponers ( Murjites ) hold.
Their office is of great antiquity, as is reflected by the curious phraseology of their ancient oath, during which they promise to " execute the laws of this isle justly … betwixt party and party, as indifferently as the herring's backbone doth lie in the midst of the fish.
Behind new doors lie secrets that promise to change the way people view science and politics, now threatened by a man who calls himself Mal ' akh.
Simon accepts the Hongbao from Wai-Tung's father, a symbolic admission of their relationship, but Mr. Gao makes him promise not to tell anyone ; without everyone trying to lie to him, he points out, he'd never have gotten a grandchild.
They promise each other not to tell Jack about their plan, because of his inability to lie to others.
In doing so he gave the lie to his own early promise ; for he had been a conspicuous member of the revolutionary Burschen-schaft at Göttingen, and had taken part as a volunteer in the War of Liberation.
The Honor Code reads, " Because I believe integrity is essential, I promise not to lie, cheat, or steal.
As the friends lie dying they all smile knowing they have kept their promise to Wo.

promise and down
A dark bathroom can be pretty scary, and he'd creep back to bed, proud of himself, thinking: Tomorrow, for sure, I'll go down to the rock and keep my promise to Dad.
Despite these shortcomings, and his promise to step down at the end of the transition, Bozizé contested the 13 March 2005 presidential elections in which all of the leading opposition candidates were allowed to run except for Patassé.
All three promises are more richly fulfilled in each succeeding generation, until through Joseph " all the world " is saved from famine, and by bringing the children of Israel down to Egypt he becomes the means through which the promise can be fulfilled.
They “ sit down where it pleases them, for there is no place appointed to any ”, and they “ with oath promise to do their utmost diligence, that the laws may be observed ”.
Fascinated by this find, she resolves to track down the now adult man who placed it there and return it to him, making a promise to herself in the process: if she finds him and it makes him happy, she will devote her life to bringing happiness to others.
The Mayor of Rome Gianni Alemanno included in his campaign platform a promise to tear down the big travertine wall of Meier's Ara Pacis.
The Jews accepted, however, in order to ensure they would not rise against them soon again, the Syrian king and regent broke their promise and tore down the walls of Jerusalem before leaving.
She started up and then stopped the elevator between floors and said, " Do you promise you'll ride down in my elevator with me when you're through work?
But it further holds that while the promise of the presence with individual believers is thus effective, Christ also appointed certain rites or sacraments, called ' mysteries ' in the Eastern Church, for the greater helping of his people, to be handed down in the church as special channels of power and blessing.
Lichens, Lobaria pulmonaria, may have potential for reducing the number of prions because some species contain proteases that show promise in breaking down the prion.
had become the team's leading scorer and the franchise was flirting with its first-ever playoff berth when Carr came down with a serious knee injury, which all but vanquished its playoff hopes and its hopes for its first non-losing season, however, the team did still show promise posting a near-winning finish at 40 – 42.
The Division itself is broken down into " program clusters " that are " organized around critical, cross-cutting scientific topics that hold great promise for advancing knowledge and reducing the burden of neurological disease ".
Within the year he had set down an account of his strange and turbulent visions, in which he received the homage of Solomon and Job, with their promise to grant him access to secret mystical knowledge.
Although Montana turned down the scholarship, he seriously considered NCSU because of a promise that he could play both basketball and football for the university.
: Since we know it to be handed down as a rule of the Roman Church that those who are deemed worthy to be advanced to the diaconate or presbyterate should promise no longer to cohabit with their wives, we, preserving the ancient rule and apostolic perfection and order, will that the lawful marriages of men who are in holy orders be from this time forward firm, by no means dissolving their union with their wives nor depriving them of their mutual intercourse at a convenient time.
Hahn was unable to deliver on his promise to add 1000 police officers to the Los Angeles Police Department, as the plan was turned down several times by the City Council.
During the tense period that followed the first round of voting Rifkind was one of those who advised Mrs Thatcher that it would be best for her to stand down and did not promise to support her if she stood for election.
Falwell on the water slide. The September 21, 1987 issue of Time magazine noted that Jerry Falwell " plunged " down a " hellish " water slide called the " Typhoon " with his suit on, fulfilling " a promise made during a fund-raising drive that netted $ 20 million for the debt-ridden PTL ".
In June 2006 McDowell was involved in a leadership dispute with party leader Mary Harney, over an alleged promise by Harney to step down in favour of him.
Apple had to retract the promise to deliver a 3 GHz processor one year after its introduction, and IBM could never get the power consumption down far enough for these processors to fit into a portable computer.
After giving the matter further thought, Foster stood down from the government after just two days, and later publicly accused Mr Blair of having broken his promise to him.
Olds submitted a plan for integrating civilian female pilots in the Ferrying Command to Gen. Hap Arnold, commanding general of the United States Army Air Forces, who turned it down after Jacqueline Cochran extracted a promise from him not to act on any proposal regarding women pilots that did not make them commissioned officers commanded by women.
Thus it is not possible to determine if the ACC's implied campaign promise of " free plastic bags for shoppers " as a reward for voting down the referendum was valid.
Mia breaks down and tells Lilly everything, and Mia makes Lilly promise not to tell anyone ( including Michael ) that she is a princess to avoid a frenzy with the press.

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