Thematic Bible: Increment
Thematic Bible
Sins » Increment » Misery
Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.
The wicked man travails with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden for the oppressor.
Come now, you rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
And Samuel said to Saul, Why have you disturbed me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am much distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God has departed from me, and answers me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called you, that you may make known unto me what I shall do.
In the morning you shall say, Would God it were evening! and at evening you shall say, Would God it were morning! because of the fear of your heart by which you shall fear, and because of the sight of your eyes which you shall see.
Good understanding gives favor: but the way of transgressors is hard.
Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that does evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Greek;
Wherever they went out, the hand of the LORD was against them for evil, as the LORD had said, and as the LORD had sworn unto them: and they were greatly distressed.
Destruction and misery are in their ways:
Sins » Increment » Origin
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
Then when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, brings forth death.
From where come wars and fightings among you? come they not from here, even of your lusts that war in your members?
Sins » Increment » Illustrated in the life of backsliders
For if after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
Then he goes, and takes with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.
Sins » Increment » Seen in the history of israel
And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God: for our iniquities have risen higher than our head, and our trespass has grown up unto the heavens.
They have grown fat, they shine: yea, they pass over the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not defend.
Sins » Increment » Will become more evident in the last days
But evil men and seducers shall grow worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
Sins » Increment » Shown by increasing insensitiveness of the spiritual faculties
For this people's heart has become gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
Sins » Increment » The steps in peter's fall illustrate
Then began he to curse and to swear, saying, I know not the man. And immediately the cock crowed.