compellest

Updated: May 4, 2025

Nay, that will I not until thou compellest me; belike in a short while little of the staves of thee shall be left now that the life is out of thee. Let thy ghost and hers foregather if ye will.

William Morris - The Water of the Wondrous Isles

Wherefore angrily, and with a flushed face, she answered him: So shall it be then, Sir Knight; or rather so must it be, since thou compellest me. He laughed and said: Nay, now thou art angry. I compel thee not, I but say that it will not do for thee to compel me to leave thee. Go which way thou wilt, up the dale, or down it and out of it; it is all one unto me, so long as I am with thee.

William Morris - The Water of the Wondrous Isles

However, when the conflict of conscience is over and external duties must be performed, close your ears to the Gospel, and open them wide to the Law. I said unto Peter before them all, If thou being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews To live as a Jew is nothing bad.

Martin Luther - Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians

But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Cephas before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest as do the Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, how compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?"

Washington Gladden - Who Wrote the Bible? : a Book for the People

"I would not have thee entrust her to thy servants." "If thou so thinkest, lead her in thyself." "Nay, but I would give her into thy hands." "I touch her not, but my house she may enter." "'Tis only to thy hand I entrust her." "O King, thou compellest me to this against my will." "Stretch forth thy hand and touch her." "I touch her as I would touch the Gorgon's head." "Hast thou hold of her?"

Alfred John Church - Stories from the Greek Tragedians

But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews? We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,

- New Etext of Bible: [King James Version]

"I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of the Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews? We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles." You want a characteristic of true Charity. Now, listen to it. It would be exceedingly painful to Paul thus publicly to rebuke Peter.

Catherine Mumford Booth - Godliness : being reports of a series of addresses delivered at James's Hall, London, W. during 1881

"Orpheus," says the Cardinal, "could move rocks and trees, but he could not make them sing; therefore thou art greater than Orpheus, for thou compellest my aged Muse to song."

Edward J. Dent - Handel

But when I saw that they walked not directly according to the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest as the Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to judaize?

T. Haweis - A Translation of the New Testament from the original Greek