As for those who deny the signs of God, the punishment is severe for God is all powerful and great His requital.

But to those who are firm in their faith We have shown Our signs already.

But those who disbelieve and deny Our revelations are residents of Hell.

So does God reveal His signs You may haply reflect

But those who disbelieve and deny Our revelations are the people of Hell.

Thus God makes His commandments clear to you You may perhaps be grateful.

Behold, how We show men clear signs, and behold, how they wander astray!

But dissensions arose, some believed, some denied.

These are the messages of God. We recite them to you in all truth, as indeed you are one of the apostles.

And how can you disbelieve? To you are being recited the messages of God, and His prophet is among you.

These are the commandments of God We recite to you verily God does not wish injustice to the creatures of the world.

Ramadan is the month in which the Qur'an was revealed as guidance to man and clear proof of the guidance, and criterion (of falsehood and truth).

In this will be a portent for you if you do believe.

But those who deny and reject Our signs will belong to Hell, and there abide unchanged.

We have shown you the signs if you have sense.

So, therefore, do not fear men, fear Me, and barter not My messages away for a paltry gain.

According to the author Marcelo Cedro in a paper on Kubicheck and the Pampulha church, the absence of a cross caused Dom Cabral, the Archbishop of Belo Horizonte, to say without the sign of the cross, the curves seem to want to pierce the soil in search of darkness.

Thus God makes His signs clear to you that you may reflect.

The familiar gesture of making the sign of the cross called up a whole series of girlish and childish memories, and suddenly the darkness, that obscured everything from her, broke, and life showed itself to her for an instant with all its bright past joys.

That is because they denied the signs of God and killed the prophets unjustly, and rebelled, and went beyond the limit.

If you falter even after Our signs have reached you, then do not forget that God is all powerful and all wise.

In the creation of the heavens and the earth, the alternation of night and day, are signs for the wise.

If God had so willed those who came after them would never have contended when clear signs had come to them.

Thus God preserves life from death and shows you His signs that you may understand.

So does God make His signs clear to men that they may take heed for themselves.

They invite you to Hell, but God calls you to Paradise and pardon by His grace. And He makes His signs manifest that men may haply take heed.

How can God show the way to those who, having come to faith, turned away, even though they had borne witness that the Messenger was true, and the clear signs had reached them?

It contains clear signs, and the spot where Abraham had stood.

And believe in what I have sent down which verifies what is already with you and do not be the first to deny it, nor part with it for little gain and beware of Me.

So they were disgraced and became indigent, earning the anger of God, for they disbelieved the word of God, and slayed the prophets unjustly, for they transgressed and rebelled.

So does God pronounce His decrees that you may understand.

O people of the Book, why do you disbelieve the signs of God having witnessed them yourselves?

You had stood on the edge of a pit of fire and He saved you from it, thus revealing to you His clear signs that you may find the right way perchance.

So be not like those who became disunited and differed among themselves after clear proofs had come to them. For them is great suffering.

So (they were punished) for breaking the covenant and disbelieving the signs of God, and for killing the prophets unjustly, and saying Our hearts are enfolded in covers, (though) in fact God had sealed them because of their unbelief so they do not believe except a few