Godly Definition

Godly Sentence Examples

• Godly love is the highest of the spiritual gifts.

• It is impossible here to follow the course of the strife, in which the godly were led by the earls of Gowrie and Angus.

• The following year, 1532, parliament presented a petition to the king (which had been most carefully elaborated by the monarch's own advisers) containing twelve charges against the bishops, relating to their courts, fees, injudicious appointments and abusive treatment of heretics, which combined to cause an unprecedented and " marvellous disorder of the godly quiet, peace and tranquillity" of the realm.

• The preachers, with Lords Loudoun and Eglintoun, Argyll and Cassilis, armed and raised the godly, and occupied Edinburgh.

• The aim was to provoke true Godly jealousy - not to start a war among believers.