'Sort' in the Bible
And the men were full of wonder, saying, What sort of man is this, that even the winds and the sea do his orders?
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net, which was put into the sea and took in every sort of fish:
And he said to them, Nothing will make this sort come out but prayer.
And at sundown all those who had anyone ill with any sort of disease, took them to him, and he put his hands on every one of them and made them well.
Now when the Pharisee in whose house he was saw it, he said to himself, This man, if he was a prophet, would be conscious what sort of woman this is who has put her hands on him, that she is a sinner.
But a curse is on you, Pharisees! for you make men give a tenth of every sort of plant, and give no thought to right and the love of God; but it is right for you to do these things, and not let the others be undone.
(This he said, pointing to the sort of death he would have.)
(That the word of Jesus might come true, pointing to the sort of death he would have.)
Now this he said, pointing out the sort of death by which he would give God glory. And after saying this, he said to him, Come after me.
Heaven is the seat of my power, and earth is a resting-place for my feet: what sort of house will you make for me, says the Lord, or what is my place of rest?
And he said, What sort of baptism did you have? And they said, The baptism of John.
What reason, then, is there for pride? It is shut out. By what sort of law? of works? No, but by a law of faith.
So that in him you have wealth in all things, in word and in knowledge of every sort;
If anyone seems to himself to have knowledge, so far he has not the right sort of knowledge about anything;
But someone will say, How do the dead come back? and with what sort of body do they come?
And when you put it into the earth, you do not put in the body which it will be, but only the seed, of grain or some other sort of plant;
Now to give me back payment of the same sort (I am talking as to my children), let your hearts be wide open to me.
How while they were undergoing every sort of trouble, and were in the greatest need, they took all the greater joy in being able to give freely to the needs of others.
For if anyone comes preaching another Jesus from the one whose preachers we are, or if you have got a different spirit, or a different sort of good news from those which came to you, how well you put up with these things.
I am surprised that you are being so quickly turned away from him whose word came to you in the grace of Christ, to good news of a different sort;
Which is not another sort: only there are some who give you trouble, desiring to make changes in the good news of Christ.
These things seem to have a sort of wisdom in self-ordered worship and making little of oneself, and being cruel to the body, not honouring it by giving it its natural use.
And last of all, the prayer which we make to you from our heart and in the name of the Lord Jesus, is this: that as we made clear to you what sort of behaviour is pleasing to God, as in fact you are doing now, so you will go on in these ways, but more and more.
Let it be all joy to you, my brothers, when you undergo tests of every sort;
For every sort of beast and bird and every living thing on earth and in the sea has been controlled by man and is under his authority;
For where envy is, and the desire to get the better of others, there is no order, but every sort of evil-doing.
Attempting to see what sort of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them was pointing to, when it gave witness to the pains which Christ would undergo and the glories which would come after them.
Seeing then that all these things are coming to such an end, what sort of persons is it right for you to be, in all holy behaviour and righteousness,
All evil-doing is sin: but death is not the punishment for every sort of sin.
These have the power to keep the heaven shut, so that there may be no rain in the days when they are prophets: and they have power over the waters to make them into blood, and to send every sort of disease on the earth as their pleasure is.
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