He can shape-shift, speaks only in verse, and lies so well that everything he says seems true.

She gives him food, and speaks to him, urging him not to " have on his conscience the staggering burden of needless bloodshed " ( verse 31, NIV ) and reminding him that God will make him a " lasting dynasty " ( verse 28 ).

The Great Commission passage speaks of believing: " He who believes and is baptized will be saved ; but he who does not believe will be condemned " ( verse 16, NKJV ).

Here, Sly speaks in prose until he begins to accept his new role as lord, then switching into blank verse and adopting the royal ' we '.

Al-Qurtubi mentions in his famous exegesis, in explanation of the above-mentioned verse, that according to Wahb ibn Munnabih, Sakinah is a spirit from God that speaks, and, in the case of the Israelites, where people disagreed on some issue, this spirit came to clarify the situation, and used to be a cause of victory for them in wars.

They base this on a verse of the Quran wherein Jesus speaks of a messenger to appear after him named Ahmad.

In Chapter Twelve, the sutra speaks in verse form about the disasters that befall a kingdom when its ruler does not uphold justice, and the benefits of kings who lead an exemplary life.

However, overwhelming majority of the scholars from the Muslim world agree that this verse speaks about the Christians of Prophet Muhammad's time and say that Christian methods of slaughtering and consumption has drastically changed over time as the diet played lesser importance in the daily practice of Christians.

The NRSV translates this as " he fixed the boundaries according to the number of the gods " Interestingly, the following verse speaks of God using the tetragrammaton:

In " Huswifery ," possibly his best known poem, Taylor speaks of the Christian faith in terms of a spinning wheel and its various components, asking, in the first verse,

When she ends up married to Gudrun's brother Gunnar instead of Sigurd, the man she intended to marry, Brynhildr speaks a verse comparing the courage of the two men:

Johnny then speaks aloud parts of 1 Corinthians 13, first verse 13 (" When I was a child ..."), then 1-2 (" Though I speak ... and have not charity, I am nothing.

Ayah ( verse ) 38 speaks of those from the right side.

The first verse referred to the Gasworks croft, which was a piece of open land adjacent to the Gasworks, and then speaks of the old canal, which was the Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal.

Drake also speaks of Chante in the second verse of his song " Deceiving " referencing Chante's mom " Tessa ", Drake rhymes ; ” What up Tessa, I love you like my own mama / And your daughter ’ s getting grown, mama / And me, I ’ m just here working, waiting / patient for her to be ready to love and leave alone drama .”

When the Zahiri school speaks of the " zahir ," they are referring to the apparent meaning that Allah intended through the verse of the Qur ' an or sayings / actions in the Sunnah.

The reference to the Spirit in verse 26, speaks of it as sent by the Son from the Father.

A medieval verse speaks of London York and Coventry and the Seven Burnhams by the sea.

The verse speaks of the greatness of Waheguru and the ways in which ones actions will assist in attaining spiritual elevation.

Bach treats the second verse similarly, but with the cantus firmus in the alto, because the text " Denn er hat seine elende Magd angesehen " speaks of the " lowly handmaid ".

Always speaks in verse.

It has been speculated that Shakespeare might have taken the part of Shakebags, who, atypically for a ruffian, often speaks in verse rather than prose.

Occasionally, the song may be re-recorded with different lyrics, ranging from just the replacement of one line being re-recorded, like James Blunt's " You're Beautiful ," which replaces " fucking high " with " flying high " in the second verse, to the entire song be completely changed, such as D12's " Purple Hills ", which replaces profanity, drug references, and other inappropriate lyrics from the original " Purple Pills ".

Poems from his earlier books display a mastery of formal verse with a modern sensibility that viewed such topics as automobiles, house flies, and drug stores as worthy of attention.

In the Hawkwind song " Lost Johnny ," the drug appears in the verse " We're all taking Tuinal to murder our young dreams.

* Featured on the TV show in the episode " The Devil and Peter Tork " and caused controversy when NBC objected to the episode, citing the song and its veiled drug reference in the third verse.

The cover removed the final verse of the song that discusses drug use.

In the 1936 movie version, alternative lyrics in the second verse were provided to replace a reference to the drug cocaine, which were not allowed due to the Hays Code.

" Most of Bizarre's verse is entirely changed, due to the strong amount of sexual and drug content in it.

Towards this end, the first conceptual verse of the song is told through the eyes of a drug dealer contemplating his relationship with God.

critic Ralph Mills described ' the amatory verse ' as a blend of ' consideration of self with qualities of eroticism and sensuality ; but more important, the poems introduce and maintain a fascination with something beyond the self, that is, with the figure of the other, or the beloved woman.

During the first taping of the Late Show with David Letterman following the attacks, CBS newsman Dan Rather cried briefly as he quoted the fourth verse.

In the third verse ( see above ), the author scolds the materialistic and self-serving robber barons of her day, and urges America to live up to its noble ideals and to honor, with both word and deed, the memory of those who died for their country.

* Giuseppe Barzilai goes back for explanation to the first verse of the prayer attributed to Rabbi Nehunya ben HaKanah, the literal rendering of which is “ O, with thy mighty right hand deliver the unhappy ,” forming from the initial and final letters of the words the word Abrakd ( pronounced Abrakad ), with the meaning “ the host of the winged ones ,” i. e., angels.

Alcaeus ( Alkaios, ) of Mytilene ( c. 620 – 6th century BC ), Greek lyric poet from Lesbos Island who is credited with inventing the Alcaic verse.

The poem was written in Sapphic stanzas, a verse form popularly associated with his compatriot, Sappho, but in which he too excelled, here paraphrased in English to suggest the same rhythms.

Rashi comments on this verse that " The entire people will be so imbued with the spirit of sanctity that God's Presence will rest upon them collectively, as if the congregation itself was the Ark of the Covenant.

A number of Roman Catholic writers connect this verse with the Woman of the Apocalypse in, which immediately follows, and argue that the Blessed Virgin Mary is the " Ark of the New Covenant.

In accentual-syllabic verse, it is a line of iambic hexameter-a line of six feet or measures (" iambs "), each of which has two syllables with an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.

As in the Spenserian stanza above, alexandrines are sometimes mixed with pentameter verse.

Late in the sixteenth century the " verse anthem ", in which passages for solo voices alternated with passages for full choir, developed.

He was able to write a letter in exile, with no access to a copy of the Scriptures, and quote from memory every verse in the Old Testament with reference to the Trinity without missing any.

After Elihu's speech ends with the last verse of Chapter 37, God appears and in the second verse of Chapter 38, God says, speaking of Job: “ Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?

As he says in verse one, " I have made a covenant with my eyes.

The first four poems ( chapters ) are acrostics, like some of the Psalms ( 25, 34, 37, 119 ), i. e., each verse begins with a letter of the Hebrew alphabet taken in order.

Several scholars consider the book to be anonymous, with verse 1: 1 being a later addition.

They also use the biblical verse of Romans 10: 9 " That if you confess with your mouth, ' Jesus is Lord ', and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

This verse, in accordance with the Mosaic Law, maintains that the punishment for murder is the death penalty.

The Prophecy of Seventy Septets ( or literally ' seventy times seven ') appears in the angel Gabriel's reply to Daniel, beginning with verse 22 and ending with verse 27 in the ninth chapter of the Book of Daniel, a work included in both the Jewish Tanakh and the Christian Bible ; as well as the Septuagint.

In Lope de Vega's miscellany La Circe-con otras rimas y prosas ( Madrid 1624 ), the story of her encounter with Ulysses appears as a verse epic in three cantos.