Thematic Bible: Condemned
Thematic Bible
Bribery » Condemned
Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come before them.
And you shall take no bribe: for the bribe blinds the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous.
In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.
A wicked man takes a bribe out of the bosom to pervert the ways of justice.
Who justify the wicked for a bribe, and take away the justice of the righteous from him!
He that walks righteously, and speaks uprightly; he that despises the gain of oppressions, that keeps his hands from the holding of bribes, that stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed, and shuts his eyes from seeing evil;
For I know your manifold transgressions, and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
Business life » Dishonesty » Condemned
A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loves to oppress.
Shall I count those pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
As the partridge sits on eggs, and hatches them not; so he that gets riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
It is nothing, it is nothing, says the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.
You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a great and a small.
Diverse weights, and diverse measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
Woe unto him that builds his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that uses his neighbor's service without wages, and gives him nothing for his work;
Dishonesty » Condemned
A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loves to oppress.
Shall I count those pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
As the partridge sits on eggs, and hatches them not; so he that gets riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
It is nothing, it is nothing, says the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.
You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a great and a small.
Diverse weights, and diverse measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
Woe unto him that builds his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that uses his neighbor's service without wages, and gives him nothing for his work;
Dullness » Condemned
And none considers in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon its coals; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I make the rest of it an abomination? shall I fall down to a block of wood?
Son of man, you dwell in the midst of a rebellious house, who have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not: for they are a rebellious house.
A senseless man knows not; neither does a fool understand this.
You hypocrites, you can discern the appearance of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that you do not discern this time?
Why do you not understand my speech? even because you cannot hear my word.
There is none that understands, there is none that seeks after God.
Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to explain, seeing you are dull of hearing.
Hardness (of heart) » Condemned
But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart treasure up unto yourself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
Happy is the man that is reverent always: but he that hardens his heart shall fall into calamity.
He, that being often reproved hardens his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
Therefore he has poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it has set him on fire all around, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.
But exhort one another daily, while it is called Today; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of trials in the wilderness:
Hatred » Condemned
He that says he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in darkness even until now.
Whosoever hates his brother is a murderer: and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
Hatred stirs up strife: but love covers all sins.
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a fatted ox with hatred.
If a man says, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar: for he that loves not his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?
You shall not hate your brother in your heart: you shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.
High places » Condemned
Then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their engraved stones, and destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places:
For the saying which he cried by the word of the LORD against the altar in Beth-el, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass.
And they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.
For he took away the altars of the foreign gods, and the high places, and broke down the images, and cut down the idol poles:
And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcasses upon the carcasses of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
Injustice » Condemned
You shall not pervert the justice due the stranger, nor the fatherless; nor take a widow's clothing as pledge:
You shall not pervert judgment; you shall not show partiality, neither take a bribe: for a bribe does blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
How long will you judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.
An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked.
It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink: Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the justice of any of the afflicted.
And moreover I saw under the sun the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.
He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.
Malice » Condemned
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
But now you also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy talk out of your mouth.
Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Brethren, be not children in understanding: but in malice be children, but in understanding be men.
Therefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speaking,
Murmuring » Condemned
They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.
The foolishness of man perverts his way: and his heart frets against the LORD.
Neither murmur you, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed by the destroyer.
Do all things without murmuring and disputing:
Pitilessness » Condemned
But in my adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:
They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge from the poor.
And likewise a Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked on him, and passed by on the other side.
They gave me also gall for my food; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
Thus says the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath forever:
And he would not: but went and cast him into prison, till he should pay the debt.
As he that takes away a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon soda, so is he that sings songs to a heavy heart.
A poor man that oppresses the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaves no food.
Places » High » Condemned
Then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their engraved stones, and destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places:
For the saying which he cried by the word of the LORD against the altar in Beth-el, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass.
And they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.
For he took away the altars of the foreign gods, and the high places, and broke down the images, and cut down the idol poles:
And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcasses upon the carcasses of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
Sacrilege » Condemned
What? have you not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise you the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.
Therefore every one that eats it shall bear his iniquity, because he has profaned the hallowed thing of the LORD: and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
And you shall bear no sin by reason of it, when you have offered from it the best of it: neither shall you pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, lest you die.
You that say a man should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? you that abhor idols, do you commit sacrilege?
The Nation » Bribery » Condemned
Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come before them.
And you shall take no bribe: for the bribe blinds the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous.
In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.
A wicked man takes a bribe out of the bosom to pervert the ways of justice.
Who justify the wicked for a bribe, and take away the justice of the righteous from him!
He that walks righteously, and speaks uprightly; he that despises the gain of oppressions, that keeps his hands from the holding of bribes, that stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed, and shuts his eyes from seeing evil;
For I know your manifold transgressions, and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
Unrest » Condemned
Be anxious for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
Verse Concepts
Problem SolvingComfortingAdvice, Receiving God's AdviceAttitudes Of ThankfulfnessBeing AfraidAskingCarePrayer, As Asking GodPrayer, As Praise And ThanksgivingRest, PhysicalRestlessnessThankfulnessThanksgivingWorship, Elements OfWorship, Times ForSaints, Communion With GodPrayer, Offered WithAnxiety, OvercomeFrettingCare For Your BodyRelying Upon GodBeing CalmUnrestNothingDo Not Be Anxious
Thank God!PrayerNot WorryingAnxiety And FearFear And WorryWorryingThank YouThankfulness To OthersBeing GratefulGrateful HeartThanksgiving And GratitudeGiving ThanksTrusting God And Not WorryingPrayingWorrying About The FutureThanksNervousnesstomorrowpositivityeverythingsupplicationworriesanxiouspetitionTaking Risks With Faith
But I would have you without concern. He that is unmarried cares for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:
Casting all your care upon him; for he cares for you.
Verse Concepts
CareAnxietyAcknowledging GodBankruptcyComfortingAdversityBeing A BlessingBeing AfraidBeing BlessedDespair, Remedies ForGuardiansHealthReceptivenessRest, PhysicalStressSuffering, Of The InnocentWorryHelp From GodComfort, When WorriedBrokenheartedUnrest
Asking For HelpEncouragement In LifeTurning To GodDo Not Be AnxiousA Tough Break UpMental HealthAnxiety And DepressionServiceCasting Out FearNot WorryingAnxiety And FearFear And WorryWorryingFamily ProblemsTrusting God And Not WorryingWorrying About The FutureproblemsartistsworriesanxiousOvercoming Fear With Faith
And when they bring you unto the synagogues, and unto magistrates, and powers, take you no thought how or what thing you shall answer, or what you shall say:
And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?
Vices » Dishonesty » Condemned
A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loves to oppress.
Shall I count those pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
As the partridge sits on eggs, and hatches them not; so he that gets riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
It is nothing, it is nothing, says the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.
You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a great and a small.
Diverse weights, and diverse measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
Woe unto him that builds his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that uses his neighbor's service without wages, and gives him nothing for his work;
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