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    grievous


    1. Now that he was in it, he was very aware that he was nothing like the heroes he used to read about, courageous, mighty of thew, able to fight on in spite of grievous injuries and with an endless supply of knowledge of whatever enemy they faced


    2. She was not the stuff of legend nor of heroism, being the sort of person who worried that she was letting her whole class down when her shoes got dirty, and here she was facing down three members of an alien youth culture, whose sole intent was to inflict grievous bodily harm on another vulnerable individual


    3. hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is


    4. 13 There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to


    5. 16 This also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go


    6. Hadn’t her clan learned at grievous cost the necessary result that when one party’s lifted up, the other suffers terribly


    7. In those grievous times of famine, war, and death, this land had been notable in horror


    8. For all of his bluster, Mercer Frey was not immune to the pangs of grievous injury


    9. Her pleasure seemed to depend less on their juices than on their grievous screams


    10. But there had been no word of any grievous harm coming to Adrianus

    11. They are not only very grievous occasional taxes, but they contribute to establish perpetual taxes, of the same kind, still more grievous ; the ruinous taxes of private luxury and extravagance


    12. All of them, besides, are oppressed with a numerous race of mendicant friars, whose beggary being not only licensed but consecrated by religion, is a most grievous tax upon the poor people, who are most carefully taught that it is a duty to give, and a very great sin to refuse them their charity


    13. This mode of taxation, therefore, it seems evident, could never, without the most grievous oppression, produce a revenue nearly equal to what is derived from the present mode without any oppression


    14. Thus says The Lord to all those who call of themselves Christian, yet never cease from pushing out the lip against The Lord’s anointed: Your error is very grievous! Hold your tongue! Lest all I have spoken concerning the scoffer and the wicked come upon you, leaving your houses utterly devastated and your sanctuaries in ruinous heaps! For it shall surely be accounted to you, in accordance with your every idle word, says The Lord your God


    15. 8 And, note, you have with you Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite of Bahurim, which cursed me with a grievous curse in the day


    16. grievous, now therefore ease you somewhat the grievous servitude of your father, and his heavy yoke that he put on us, and we will


    17. Jer 16:4 They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth


    18. 5 His ways are always grievous; your judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffs at them


    19. Remember, if we are forced to be cremated and we have exhausted all other avenues to obtain the scriptural burial without success, we will not be held accountable for this grievous sin of cremation - but they will!


    20. If the believer has sinned by having themselves cremated (and you cannot deny that this is a grievous sin), God will forgive the sinner because he is a believer and he will be resurrected to everlasting life, no matter the sin

    21. Nonetheless, when we search the scriptures we find numerous guidelines and if I consider what scriptures tell us, my opinion would be that if the person or the relative was not aware that cremation was such a grievous sin, they will be forgiven and like the doctor says, grandma’s ashes will be resurrected


    22. The soft answer turns away wrath; but grievous words stir up anger; the tongue of the wise uses knowledge rightly; but the mouth of


    23. grievous to him who forsakes the way, and he who hates reproof shall die; Hell and destruction are before the Lord; how much more


    24. 17 Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous to me, for all is vanity and vexation of spirit


    25. voice shall be heard even to Jahaz; therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous to him


    26. hurt! my wound is grievous; but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it


    27. mothers that bore them, and concerning their fathers that begot them in this land; 4 They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not


    28. heard his word? who has marked his word, and heard it? 19 See, a whirlwind of the Lord is gone out in fury, even a grievous


    29. 19 There is no healing of your bruise; your wound is grievous; all who hear the bruit of you


    30. 15 He is grievous to us even to see, for his life is not like other men's, his ways are of another fashion

    31. 11 For wickedness, condemned by her own witness, is very timorous, and being pressed with conscience, always forecasts grievous


    32. 15 The strife of the proud is bloodshed, and their revilings are grievous to the ear


    33. 28 These things are grievous to a man of understanding; the upbraiding of the houseroom, and reproaching of the lender


    34. grievous to me again, 22 And my soul recovered the spirit of understanding, and I began to talk with the Most High again, 23 And


    35. place, and see they are thrown out to the heat of the sun, and to the frost of the night, and they have died in grievous pains, by famine,


    36. grievous crime, there did all men thrust him to death


    37. with anger, he rose up; and though his blood gushed out like spouts of water, and his wounds were grievous, yet he ran through the


    38. Sennacherim, the grievous King of the Assyrians, glorying in his countless hosts, had subdued the whole land with his spear, and was


    39. cup of salvation, instead of a grievous and lamentable death


    40. fettered in grievous chains as slaves, no, as traitors

    41. M: To take appearance for reality is a grievous sin and the


    42. Woe to you who build your houses through the grievous toil of others; And all their building materials are the bricks and stones of sin; I tell you, you shall have no peace


    43. In those days when He has brought a grievous fire on you; where will you flee, and where will you find deliverance? And when He launches out His Word against you; Will you not be frightened and fear? And all the luminaries shall be affrighted with great fear; And all the Earth shall be affrighted and tremble and be alarmed; And all the angels shall execute their commands; And shall seek to hide themselves from the presence of the Great Glory; And the children of Earth shall tremble and quake; And you sinners shall be cursed forever; And you shall have no peace


    44. It would be a grievous mistake to


    45. two is a grievous mistake and the cause of endless suffering


    46. 1 And in that year there was a heavy famine throughout the land of Canaan, and the inhabitants of the land could not remain on account of the famine for it was very grievous


    47. moulding oneself to a pattern is a grievous waste of time


    48. 26 And when she could not prevail over him, to persuade him, and her soul being still fixed on him, her desire threw her into a grievous sickness


    49. 55 Note the seven years that are coming there will be a great plenty throughout the land, and after that the seven years of famine will follow them, a very grievous famine; and all the plenty will be forgotten from the land, and the famine will consume the inhabitants of the land


    50. 20 For I know that many and grievous troubles will befall you in the latter days in the land, yes your children and children's children, only serve the Lord and he will save you from all trouble













































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    Synonyms for "grievous"

    dangerous grave grievous life-threatening serious severe atrocious flagitious monstrous heavy weighty heartbreaking heartrending

    "grievous" definitions

    causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm


    causing or marked by grief or anguish


    of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought


    shockingly brutal or cruel