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Thematic Bible



"Woe to those who are crafting iniquity, planning evil well into the night! When morning's light comes, they carry out their plans because they have the power to do so.

He devises iniquity on his bed and is determined to follow a path that is not good. He does not resist evil.

The person who plans on doing evil will be called a schemer.




Won't those who plot evil go astray? But gracious love and truth are for those who plan what is good.

Whoever winks knowingly is plotting deceit; anyone who purses his lips is bent towards evil.

Furthermore, the crimes of bad people are evil; and they devise wicked schemes, destroying the poor with lying words, even when needy people plead a just cause.

Then he told me, "Son of Man, these men are plotting evil and are giving wicked advice in this city.




So it is not surprising if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their doom will match their deeds!


For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. And if it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who refuse to obey the gospel of God?


What benefit did you get from doing those things you are now ashamed of? For those things resulted in death.

However, if it continues to produce thorns and thistles, it is worthless and in danger of being cursed, and in the end will be burned.

until I entered the sanctuaries of God. Then I understood their destiny.


For this reason, God delivered them to sexual impurity as they followed the lusts of their hearts and dishonored their bodies with one another.

"Listen, you descendants of Israel! Come back to the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so he may come back to those of you who have escaped and survived from domination by the kings of Assyria. Don't be like your ancestors and your relatives, who weren't faithful to the LORD God of their ancestors, who, as a result, made them a desolate horror, as you well know.

Look! Your house is left abandoned!


When she cried out, "The Philistines are attacking you, Samson!" he woke from his sleep and told himself, "I'll go out like I did at other times like this and shake myself free." But he didn't know that the LORD had abandoned him.

Saul inquired of the LORD, but the LORD did not answer him, either through dreams or Urim or through prophets.

So I allowed them to continue in their stubbornness, living by their own advice.


So God turned away from them and gave them over to worship the heavenly bodies. As it is written in the book of the Prophets: "O house of Israel, you didn't offer me slaughtered animals and sacrifices those 40 years in the wilderness, did you?


God, if only you would execute the wicked, so that the men guilty of bloodshed would get away from me,


They are wild waves of the sea, churning up the foam of their own shame. They are wandering stars for whom the deepest darkness has been reserved forever.

The wicked person's iniquities will capture him, and he will be held with the cords of his sin.

For there is a cup in the hand of the LORD, foaming with well-mixed wine that he will pour out, leaving only the dregs, from which all the wicked of the earth will drink.

But you, God, bring them down to the Pit of corruption; bloodthirsty and deceitful people will not live out half their days. But I put my full confidence in you. To the Director: A special Davidic psalm to the tune of "A Silent Dove Far Away," when the Philistines seized him in Gath.

The wicked person sees this and flies into a rage; his teeth gnash and wear away. The desire of the wicked will amount to nothing.

Though the wicked sprout like grass; and all who practice iniquity flourish, it is they who will be eternally destroyed.


Yet a little while longer, and the wicked will be no more. You will search for his place, but he will not be there.



Were they ashamed because they did what was repugnant to God? They were not ashamed at all they don't even know how to blush! Therefore they'll fall with those who fall. When I punish them, they'll be brought down," says the LORD.

Those who have been swearing oaths by the sin of Samaria, or who say, "As your god lives, Dan"' or who say, "As the way of Beer-sheba lives"' will fall, and will never rise again."

The righteousness of the innocent creates a level path, but the wicked fall by their wickedness.

Whoever digs a pit may fall into it, and whoever breaks through a wall may suffer a snake bite.

However, I'm not going to punish your daughters when they commit prostitution, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery, because their men are themselves immoral they offer sacrifices with prostitutes. These people who aren't discerning will stumble.

"You are to say to them, "This is what the LORD says: "Will a person fall down and then not get up? Will someone turn away and then not turn back again?


So I watched the wicked being entombed. They used to come in and out of the Holy Place, but now they are forgotten in the city, where they used to work. This, too, is pointless.

No one remembers him anywhere in the land; no one names streets in his honor.


"I said, "I will scatter them, erasing their memory from the human race,

May what they have done be continually in the LORD's presence; and may their memory be excised from the earth.

because stillborn children arrive in pointlessness, leave in darkness, and their names are covered in darkness.



The good person will gain favor from the LORD, but the man who plots evil will be condemned by him.

The LORD makes void the counsel of nations; he frustrates the plans of nations.

But when Esther came before the king, he ordered through a letter that the evil plot that Haman had devised against the Jewish people be rescinded, and that he and his sons be hanged on poles.

He frustrates the plans of the crafty; so that what they work for never succeeds.



For they run toward evil; these enticers shed blood without hesitation.


Their feet rush to evil, and they are quick to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; ruin, destruction, and violence are in their paths.



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