Quotes about Accomplished
If God's call to Abraham and the covenant that he made with him were designed to rescue the world from its plight, this purpose has now been accomplished in the Messiah, only more so: the Messiah has inaugurated the new creation, not simply a return to the original one.
— NT Wright
In fact, the resistance to such claims may well come from the constant impulse to resist the Lordship of Jesus, the one through whom it is accomplished. Paul lived in a world where other 'lords' reigned supreme, and resented alternative candidates for their position. So do we. ROMANS
— NT Wright
The new Passover (rescue from the enslaving power) is accomplished by dealing with sins; only now, with "sins" growing to their full extent as "Sin," the two stories finally fuse together into one.
— NT Wright
The statement that in the gospel events God has unveiled and displayed his dikaiosyn? is most naturally to be taken as the statement that the promise has been fulfilled and the purpose accomplished.
— NT Wright
Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on that day He rested from all the work of creation that He had accomplished.
— Genesis 2:3
And being very thirsty, Samson cried out to the LORD, “You have accomplished this great deliverance through Your servant. Must I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”
— Judges 15:18
For the sake of Your word and according to Your own heart, You have accomplished this great thing and revealed it to Your servant.
— 2 Samuel 7:21
Then I turned to consider wisdom and madness and folly; for what more can the king’s successor do than what has already been accomplished?
— Ecclesiastes 2:12
Raise a banner against the walls of Babylon; post the guard; station the watchmen; prepare the ambush. For the LORD has both devised and accomplished what He spoke against the people of Babylon.
— Jeremiah 51:12
Then the king will do as he pleases and will exalt and magnify himself above every god, and he will speak monstrous things against the God of gods. He will be successful until the time of wrath is completed, for what has been decreed must be accomplished.
— Daniel 11:36
Then what was spoken through the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled:
— Matthew 2:17
For I tell you truly, until heaven and earth pass away, not a single jot, not a stroke of a pen, will disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.
— Matthew 5:18