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- noun Obsolete form of
steadfastness .
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Examples
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Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.
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Nate, I admire your stedfastness in pointing out our flaws and providing a forum in which to cure them.
Is Smitherman A Pimp? Nathaniel Livingston 2006
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My stedfastness was best expressed, and surely it was sufficiently expressed (the circumstances of the case so interesting) by silence.
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Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.
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This I must insist on, as an earnest of your sincerity in all you have said, and of the stedfastness of your resolution, that you obey me in one instance.
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[2018] So that, as in the beginning, these things were enjoined you because of your wickedness, in like manner because of your stedfastness in it, or rather your increased proneness to it, by means of the same precepts He calls you to a remembrance or knowledge of it.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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Chapter I. -- His own sufferings: exhortation to stedfastness.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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Dircae, being persecuted, after they had suffered terrible and unspeakable torments, finished the course of their faith with stedfastness, [33] and though weak in body, received a noble reward.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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Since, therefore, there exist among them error and misleading influences, and magical illusions are impiously wrought in the sight of men; but in the Church, sympathy, and compassion, and stedfastness, and truth, for the aid and encouragement of mankind, are not only displayed
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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But as to those animals which do indeed chew the cud, but have not the double hoof, and are themselves unclean, we have in them a figurative description of the Jews, who certainly have the words of God in their mouth, but who do not fix their rooted stedfastness in the
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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