(16 quotes found)
“For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.”
Bible
“Certainly an Apostle has come to you from among yourselves; grievous to him is your falling into distress, excessively solicitous respecting you; to the believers (he is) compassionate, / But if they turn back, say: Allah is sufficient for me, there is no god but He; on Him do I rely, and He is the Lord of mighty power.”
quran
“They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.”
“Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.”
“Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe.”
“And when he was come, the Jews which came down from Jerusalem stood round about, and laid many and grievous complaints against Paul, which they could not prove.”
“It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure what is carried beneath them quite automatically, if one has long been a reader of the press journalism.”
Mary Ritter Beard
“Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: and he that hateth reproof shall die.”
“So far, 82 persons have been arrested and detained. Their offences include arson, grievous assault on census officials and unlawful possession of firearms.”
Haz Iwendi
“For thus saith the LORD, Thy bruise is incurable, and thy wound is grievous.”