beget - use in sentences

Object

  • violence: The film sends out the same old message- violence begets violence.
  • pride: And riches naturally beget pride, love of the world, and every temper that is destructive of Christianity.
  • love: An imperfect truth begets an imperfect love in us.

Adjective complement

  • more: No-one with power in this world loves peace, only war and death which seems to beget more of the same.

Modifying Another Word

  • only: To be the " beloved " or " only begotten " of god is a kingship formula.
  • again: It is the Word of God, 1 Peter 1, by which you are begotten again.
  • first: Despite this each is his only begotten, or his first begotten, son.
  • not: The same point is made by the addition ' begotten not made, ' which makes the contrast explicit.
  • naturally: I believe the one thing naturally begets the other.

Preposition: in

  • soul: True faith is God's gift, and it is begotten in the soul by the Spirit of God.

Preposition: by

  • man: This heresy asserted that Christ was begotten by mortal man; thus denying Christ's Divine birth.

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