Bible Encyclopedia: Strives

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Strong's Hebrew

3478. Yisrael -- "God strives," another name of Jacob and his desc ...
... Yisrael. 3479 . "God strives," another name of Jacob and his desc. ... Word Origin
from sarah and el Definition "God strives," another name of Jacob and his desc. ...
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Library

Whether There is Delight in Contemplation?
... xiv in Ezech.) that "when the soul strives to contemplate God, it is in a state
of struggle; at one time it almost overcomes, because by understanding and ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether there is delight in.htm

Outward and Inward Morality
... abiding in God's will. Towards this union with God for which it is created
the soul strives perpetually. Fire converts wood into ...
/.../eckhart/meister eckharts sermons/vii outward and inward morality.htm

Thus Far I have Made Answer About My Crimes, and Indeed in Defence ...
... I will now come to his Apology, by which he strives to justify himself to Anastasius,
Bishop of the City of Rome, and, in order to defend himself, constructs a ...
/.../1 thus far i have.htm

One of the Duties of Fortitude is to Keep the Weak from Receiving ...
... Secondly, as it strives after those things which are the highest, and all things
in which one can see anything moral (or as the Greeks call it, prepon,) with ...
/.../ambrose/works and letters of st ambrose/chapter xxxvi one of the.htm

On the Death of a Believer.
... On the death of a believer. In vain my fancy strives to paint. The moment after
death. ... Her mansion near the throne. Faith strives, but all its efforts fail,. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/newton/olney hymns/hymn 72 on the death.htm

Toleration
... against modesty, scorn of imbecility against reverence for authority in the same
man's heart, while the mystery of the new world around him strives with the ...
/.../kingsley/discipline and other sermons/sermon xxii toleration.htm

The Twofold Wrestle --God's with Jacob and Jacob's with God
... in unbroken silence, 'a man' wrestles with Jacob, and does not prevail; in the second,
which is represented as an interchange of speech, Jacob strives with the ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture k/the twofold wrestlegods with jacob.htm

By what virtues the Ancient Romans Merited that the True God ...
... For glory, honor, and power are desired alike by the good man and by the ignoble;
but the former," he says, "strives onward to them by the true way, whilst the ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/augustine/city of god/chapter 12 by what virtues the.htm

Saints, Sages, and Saviors: the Law of Service
... Whoever fights ceaselessly against his own selfishness, and strives to supplant
it with all-embracing love, is a saint, whether he live in a cottage or in the ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/allen/the way of peace/saints sages and saviors the.htm

Eighth Tractate. On Free-Will and the Will of the One.
... the Intellectual-Principle. Will strives towards the good which the act
of Intellectual-Principle realizes. Thus that principle ...
/.../plotinus/the six enneads/eighth tractate on free-will and.htm

Thesaurus

Strives (4 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Strives (4 Occurrences). 1 Corinthians 9:25 Every man
who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. ...
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Imperishable (11 Occurrences)
... beasts or reptiles. (WEY). 1 Corinthians 9:25 Every man who strives in the
games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do ...
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Incorruptible (8 Occurrences)
... things. (WEB ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS). 1 Corinthians 9:25 Every man who strives
in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now ...
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Fashions (10 Occurrences)
... before it. (See NIV). Isaiah 45:9 Woe to him who strives with his Maker-
a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ...
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Training (32 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Training (32 Occurrences). 1 Corinthians 9:25 Every man
who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. ...
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Exercises (4 Occurrences)
... patience with them? (WEB). 1 Corinthians 9:25 Every man who strives in the
games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do ...
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Corruptible (7 Occurrences)
... (Root in WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS). 1 Corinthians 9:25 Every man who
strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. ...
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Self-control (14 Occurrences)
... For it's better to marry than to burn. (WEB WEY BBE NAS RSV). 1 Corinthians 9:25
Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. ...
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Sanctification (13 Occurrences)
... to Christ. The moral imperfections which cling to him he feels to be sins,
which he laments and strives to overcome. Believers find ...
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Sarai (13 Occurrences)
... "She that strives," a contentious person, is a name that might be given to a child
at birth (compare Hosea 12:3, 4, of Jacob), or later when the child's ...
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Bible Concordance

Strives (4 Occurrences)

1 Corinthians 9:25 Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.
(WEB)

Isaiah 45:9 Woe to him who strives with his Maker- a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it,'What are you making?' or your work,'He has no hands?'
(WEB RSV)

Isaiah 64:7 But now, O Lord, you are our father; we are the earth, and you are our maker; and we are all the work of your hand.
(See NIV)

Jeremiah 15:10 Wo to me, my mother, For thou hast borne me a man of strife, And a man of contention to all the land, I have not lent on usury, Nor have they lent on usury to me -- All of them are reviling me.
(See NIV)

Subtopics

Strives

Related Terms

Imperishable (11 Occurrences)

Incorruptible (8 Occurrences)

Fashions (10 Occurrences)

Training (32 Occurrences)

Exercises (4 Occurrences)

Corruptible (7 Occurrences)

Self-control (14 Occurrences)

Sanctification (13 Occurrences)

Sarai (13 Occurrences)