Rather than causing someone to be afraid of God a proper fear of the Lord leads one to love Him.

What does the phrase fight me mean. Typically it would be alcoholism drug addiction or possibly mental illness. In idiomatic English the powers that be sometimes initialized as TPTB is a phrase used to refer to those individuals or groups who collectively hold authority over a particular domain. The cash me outside or cash me ousside meme is used online as an equivalent of fight me in difficult or annoying situations usually imagined as a humorous or clever responses to hypothetical scenarios.

Within this phrase the word be is an archaic variant of are rather than a subjunctive beThe use of are in this phrase the powers that are is less common. Once was the night before the crucifixion. Jesus took His disciples with Him to the Garden of Gethsemane where He prayed that this cup be taken from me Matthew 2639.

Threaten the threatener and outface the brow. Be fire with fire. When the Bible refers to the fear of the Lord it means having a deep respect reverence and awe for Gods power and authority.

The Greek word agonizomai translated fought means literally to engage in conflict The word was used in the context of competing in athletic games or engaging in military conflict. I love being Southern. Be stirring as the time.

That flag means so much to me in so many ways. One is I dont have a horse in this race and another is I dont have a dog in this fight Both mean basically what you said--that the person saying the phrase doesnt personally have anything at stake in a situation. Jesus used the phrase watch and pray on a couple of different occasions.

There are two similar phrases for this. Its just that what they say isnt always crystal clear to us because they dont want to hurt our feelings and provoke an emotional scene as a result. Origin of Beg the Question.