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  • For it is a good thing to refrain from lusts in the world, for every lust warreth against the Spirit, and neither whoremongers nor effeminate persons nor defilers of themselves with men shall inherit the kingdom of God, neither they that do untoward things.

    A Dark And Hidden God Hal Duncan 2006

  • And on these two kings warreth a mighty man of men, the King Claudas, and striveth with them for a castle, and great war is betwixt them.

    Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table 2003

  • Church; and by the other lady ye shall understand the old law and the fiend, which all day warreth against Holy Church, therefore ye did your battle with right.

    Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table 2003

  • "No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier; and if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned except he strive lawfully."

    ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

  • For it is well that they should be cut off from [371] the lusts that are in the world, since "every lust warreth against the spirit;"

    ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

  • For, though a man be delighted with the law of God after the inner man, what shall he do with that other law in his members which warreth against the law of his mind, and bringeth him into captivity to the law of sin which is in his members?

    The Confessions 1999

  • No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.

    2 Timothy 2. 1999

  • And that ye fought with the champion for the lady, this it betokeneth: for when ye took the battle for the lady, by her shall ye understand the new law of Jesu Christ and Holy Church; and by the other lady ye shall understand the old law and the fiend, which all day warreth against

    Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart

  • For, though a man be delighted with the law of God after the inner man, 56 what shall he do with that other law in his members which warreth against the law of his mind, and bringeth him into captivity to the law of sin which is in his members?

    The Seventh Book 1909

  • And that ye fought with the champion for the lady, this it betokeneth: for when ye took the battle for the lady, by her shall ye understand the new law of Jesu Christ and Holy Church; and by the other lady ye shall understand the old law and the fiend, which all day warreth against Holy Church, therefore ye did your battle with right.

    Chapter XIII. The Sixteenth Book. Of the Holy Communication of an Abbot to Sir Bors, and How the Abbot Counselled Him 1909

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