Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Affections » False teachers seek to captivate
Do I now seek the favor of men, or of God? Am I striving to please men? If I were still pleasing men, I would not be a servant of Christ.
They zealously (eagerly) seek you in no good way. They desire to shut you out, that you may seek them.
Among them are those who creep into houses and lead captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away with various lusts.
They speak evil words about you because of their extreme greed. They will exploit you with false evil words. Their judgment from long ago is not idle. Their destruction will not delay.
For, uttering arrogant words of vanity, they entice in the desires (lusts) of the flesh, by sensuality (lasciviousness), those who are just escaping from the ones who live in error.
I have a few things against you: you have people there who hold to the teachings of Balaam, who taught Balak to present a snare to the sons of Israel, to eat of idol sacrifices and commit fornication.
But I have this against you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and she teaches and leads my servants astray so that they commit immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols.
Captivity » Figurative
Among them are those who creep into houses and lead captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away with various lusts.
But I discipline my body, and bring it into subjection, so that after I have preached to others I will not be disqualified.
The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord Jehovah is upon me, because Jehovah has anointed me to announce good news to the lowly and meek. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to captives and freedom to prisoners.
Verse Concepts
Freedom, Through Jesus ChristBrokennessBrokenheartedBreath Of GodAnointing, Of ChristAnointing With OilBlindness, HealingsdiscouragementGospel, Descriptions OfPoverty, Remedies ForPower, HumanPoverty, SpiritualPrisonersRescueSuffering, Encouragements InSymbolsAfflictions, Consolation DuringHoly Spirit, Types OfProphecies Concerning ChristNames And Titles For The Holy SpiritBindingCaptivity, Metaphorically
The Spirit Of GodThe Anointed OneMessianic PropheciesSpirit Of ChristGood TidingsThe Spirit Of The LordThe Holy Spirit Described As OilThe Sealing Of The Holy SpiritGod's Help In DiscouragementGood NewsGod Freeing CaptivesGod Healing SorrowChristian LibertyGod's Healing LoveFreedomHealing A Broken HeartHealing And ComfortRecoveryA Broken HeartBroken Heartsheartbroken
However I see a different law at work in my body. This law fights against the law that my mind approves of. It makes me a prisoner to the law of sin that is at work in my body.
They should come to their senses out of the snare of the Devil. He has taken them captive and they do his will.
We cast down imaginations, and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God. We bring every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.
Character » Of the wicked » Enticing to evil
Among them are those who creep into houses and lead captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away with various lusts.
My son, if sinners tempt you do not consent. If they say: Come with us. Let us lie in wait to kill someone. Let us ambush the innocent without cause. Let us swallow them alive and whole just as the grave does, and just as the dead go into the pit. read more.
We will find precious material possessions and we fill our houses with plunder. Throw in with us. Let us all have one purse.
We will find precious material possessions and we fill our houses with plunder. Throw in with us. Let us all have one purse.
Character of the wicked » Enticing to evil
Among them are those who creep into houses and lead captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away with various lusts.
My son, if sinners tempt you do not consent. If they say: Come with us. Let us lie in wait to kill someone. Let us ambush the innocent without cause. Let us swallow them alive and whole just as the grave does, and just as the dead go into the pit. read more.
We will find precious material possessions and we fill our houses with plunder. Throw in with us. Let us all have one purse.
We will find precious material possessions and we fill our houses with plunder. Throw in with us. Let us all have one purse.
Corruption » Who is corrupt
([Psalm of David]) The fool says in his heart: There is no God (Jehovah) (Psalm 10:4). They are corrupt. They do disgusting things. No one does good things.
When the judge was dead they returned and corrupted themselves more than their fathers. They followed other gods to serve them, and to bow down to them. They did not give up their evil practices and stubborn ways.
Jehovah said to Moses: Go down there. Your people whom you brought out of Egypt have corrupted themselves. They have already turned from the way I commanded them to live. They made a statue of a calf for themselves. They have bowed down to it and offered sacrifices to it. They said: Israel, here is your god who brought you out of Egypt.'
([Psalm of David]) The fool has said in his heart: There is no God (Jehovah)*. They are corrupt and have done abominable (detestable) iniquity. There are none who do good. (*Possible deliberate scribal change from YHWH to Elohim)
O Israel, do not rejoice. Do not celebrate as pagan nations do. You have been unfaithful to your God. You have sold sex on every threshing floor. There will not be enough grain to feed people. There will not be enough wine to go around. The people of Ephraim will not stay in Jehovah's land. They will return to Egypt and they will eat unclean food in Assyria. read more.
They will not pour wine offerings to Jehovah. Their food will only satisfy their hunger. All who eat it will be defiled. It will not be brought as an offering to Jehovah's Temple. What will they do on the day of an appointed festival or on Jehovah's festival days? Even if they escape without being destroyed, Egypt will capture them and Memphis will bury them. Weeds will grow over their silver treasures. Thorns will grow over their tents. The time for them to be punished will come. The time for them to pay for their sins will come. When this happens, Israel will know it. They think that prophets are fools and that spiritual people are crazy. They have sinned a lot, and are filled with hostility. Prophets are God's watchmen over Ephraim. Yet, traps are set on every prophet's path and people are hostile in the Temple of their God. They have gone deep in depravity as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity. He will punish their sins.
They will not pour wine offerings to Jehovah. Their food will only satisfy their hunger. All who eat it will be defiled. It will not be brought as an offering to Jehovah's Temple. What will they do on the day of an appointed festival or on Jehovah's festival days? Even if they escape without being destroyed, Egypt will capture them and Memphis will bury them. Weeds will grow over their silver treasures. Thorns will grow over their tents. The time for them to be punished will come. The time for them to pay for their sins will come. When this happens, Israel will know it. They think that prophets are fools and that spiritual people are crazy. They have sinned a lot, and are filled with hostility. Prophets are God's watchmen over Ephraim. Yet, traps are set on every prophet's path and people are hostile in the Temple of their God. They have gone deep in depravity as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity. He will punish their sins.
Among them are those who creep into houses and lead captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away with various lusts. They are constantly learning, and never able to grasp the knowledge of the truth. And even as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also withstand the truth. Men corrupted in mind, rejected concerning the faith,
Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them are an example for they, in like manner with these surrendered to fornication and went after flesh for unnatural use. They received justice by ever burning fire. In like manner these men also in their dreams defile the flesh, reject authority and speak evil of glorious ones. Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil disputed about the body of Moses. He did not speak evil judgment against him in abusive terms, but said: Jehovah rebukes you. (Zechariah 3:2) read more.
These men speak abusively about things they do not know. What they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason, they corrupt themselves.
These men speak abusively about things they do not know. What they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason, they corrupt themselves.
Folly » Whose folly shall be made manifest
Among them are those who creep into houses and lead captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away with various lusts. They are constantly learning, and never able to grasp the knowledge of the truth. And even as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also withstand the truth. Men corrupted in mind, rejected concerning the faith, read more.
they will make no progress; for their foolishness will be evident to all men, as theirs also came to be.
they will make no progress; for their foolishness will be evident to all men, as theirs also came to be.
Knowledge » Who has no knowledge
Come here, you refugees from the nations. Ignorant people carry wooden idols and pray to gods that cannot save anyone.
If any man teaches a different doctrine, and does not consent to sound words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine that is according to godliness, he is proud, knows nothing, has a morbid interest in questions and disputes about words, which leads to envy, strife, abusive language, evil suspicions, frictions between men corrupted in mind and lacking in truth, supposing that godliness is a way of gain.
All who make idols are nothing. The things they treasure are worthless. Those who would speak up for them are blind. They are shamefully ignorant. Who shapes a god and casts a useless and good for nothing idol. He and his kind will be put to shame. Craftsmen are merely men. Let them all come together and take their stand for they will be brought down to terror and infamy. read more.
The blacksmith takes a tool and works with it in the coals. He shapes an idol with hammers; he forges it with the might of his arm. He gets hungry and loses his strength. He drinks no water and grows faint. The carpenter measures with a line and makes an outline with a red chalk marker. He roughs it out with chisels and marks it with a compass. He shapes it in the form of man in all his glory, that it may dwell in a shrine. He cut down cedars, or cypress or oak. He let it grow among the trees of the forest, or planted a pine, and the rain made it grow. It is man's fuel for burning so he takes some to warm himself. He kindles a fire and bakes bread. But he also fashions a god and worships it. Yes he makes an idol and bows down to it. Half of the wood they burn in the fire. Over this half they roast meat that they can eat until they are full. They also warm themselves and say: We are warm. We can see the fire! But the rest of the wood they make into gods, carved statues. They bow to them and worship them. They pray to them and say: Rescue us, because you are our gods. They do not know or understand anything. Their eyes are plastered shut and cannot see. Their minds are closed and therefore they cannot understand. No one stops to think. No one has enough knowledge or understanding to say: I burned half of the wood in the fire. I also baked bread over its coals. I roasted meat and ate it. Now I am making the rest of the wood into a disgusting thing and bowing to a block of wood.
The blacksmith takes a tool and works with it in the coals. He shapes an idol with hammers; he forges it with the might of his arm. He gets hungry and loses his strength. He drinks no water and grows faint. The carpenter measures with a line and makes an outline with a red chalk marker. He roughs it out with chisels and marks it with a compass. He shapes it in the form of man in all his glory, that it may dwell in a shrine. He cut down cedars, or cypress or oak. He let it grow among the trees of the forest, or planted a pine, and the rain made it grow. It is man's fuel for burning so he takes some to warm himself. He kindles a fire and bakes bread. But he also fashions a god and worships it. Yes he makes an idol and bows down to it. Half of the wood they burn in the fire. Over this half they roast meat that they can eat until they are full. They also warm themselves and say: We are warm. We can see the fire! But the rest of the wood they make into gods, carved statues. They bow to them and worship them. They pray to them and say: Rescue us, because you are our gods. They do not know or understand anything. Their eyes are plastered shut and cannot see. Their minds are closed and therefore they cannot understand. No one stops to think. No one has enough knowledge or understanding to say: I burned half of the wood in the fire. I also baked bread over its coals. I roasted meat and ate it. Now I am making the rest of the wood into a disgusting thing and bowing to a block of wood.
Know this also that in the last days perilous (dangerous) times will come. For men will be lovers of their own selves, covetous (lovers of money), arrogant, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful (ungrateful), unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, despisers of those who are good, read more.
traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying its power. Stay away from people like this! Among them are those who creep into houses and lead captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away with various lusts. They are constantly learning, and never able to grasp the knowledge of the truth.
traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying its power. Stay away from people like this! Among them are those who creep into houses and lead captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away with various lusts. They are constantly learning, and never able to grasp the knowledge of the truth.
Manifestation » What shall be manifested
Do not judge anything before the time. Wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and make apparent the counsels of the hearts. Then each man's praise will come from God.
As much as you are partakers of Christ's sufferings, rejoice; that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice with exceeding joy.
Among them are those who creep into houses and lead captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away with various lusts. They are constantly learning, and never able to grasp the knowledge of the truth. And even as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also withstand the truth. Men corrupted in mind, rejected concerning the faith, read more.
they will make no progress; for their foolishness will be evident to all men, as theirs also came to be.
they will make no progress; for their foolishness will be evident to all men, as theirs also came to be.
He asked them: Is the lamp placed under a bushel, or under a bed, and not on the stand? There is nothing hidden unless it should be made known. Nothing is made secret that should come to light.
Do not be afraid. Nothing will be hidden. Every secret will be made known. The things I tell you in darkness, speak in the light. Proclaim everything you hear from on top of the house.
No one lights a lamp and puts a cover over it or hides it under a bed. Instead he places it on a stand that everyone entering may see the light. Nothing is hidden that will not be revealed. Nothing is secret that will not be made known and come to light. Pay attention and hear! Whoever has will be given more. Whoever does not have, more will be taken away, and even what he thinks he has will be taken.
Everything covered up will be revealed. Everything hidden will be made known. That which you have said in the darkness will be heard in the light. That which you have spoken in the inner chambers will be proclaimed on the housetops.
According to the grace of God that is given to me, as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it. But let every man take heed how he builds. No other foundation can be laid than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if any man builds upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, and stubble; read more.
every man's work will be made known, for the day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will prove what sort every man's work is.
every man's work will be made known, for the day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will prove what sort every man's work is.
Resistance » Who resists the truth
Among them are those who creep into houses and lead captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away with various lusts. They are constantly learning, and never able to grasp the knowledge of the truth. And even as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also withstand the truth. Men corrupted in mind, rejected concerning the faith,
Woman » Frequently » Silly and easily led into error
Among them are those who creep into houses and lead captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away with various lusts.
Women » Wicked » Silly and wayward
Among them are those who creep into houses and lead captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away with various lusts.
Women » Silly and easily led into error
Among them are those who creep into houses and lead captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away with various lusts.