Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Backsliding » Guilt and consequences of
And Jesus said to him, No one putting his hand upon the plough, and looking back, is adapted to the kingdom of God.
For this, a lion from the forest struck them, a wolf of the deserts will destroy them, the panther watched over their cities: every one going forth from thence shall be torn in pieces; for their transgressions were multiplied, their turnings away were strong.
For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye fell by the sword: for ye turned back from after Jehovah, and Jehovah will not be with you.
And those turning to their winding ways, Jehovah will cause them to go with those working iniquity: peace upon Israel.
But your iniquities were separating between you and between your God, and your sins caused to hide;the face from you from hearing.
For this judgment was far off from us, and justice shall not overtake us: we shall wait for light, and behold, darkness; for brightness, and we shall walk in thick darkness. We shall feel for the wall as the blind, and we shall feel, as no eyes: we stumbled at noon as at evening twilight; in fertile fields as the dead. We shall growl as bears all of us, and murmuring we shall murmur as doves: we shall wait for judgment, and none; for salvation, it was far from us.
Wherefore did this people of Jerusalem turn away a continual turning away? they laid hold upon deceit; they refused to turn back.
Thou didst reject me, says Jehovah; thou wilt go backward; and I will stretch forth my hand against thee, and I will destroy thee; I was weary of lamenting.
Conscience » Guilty
Straitness and distress shall terrify him; they shall overpower him as a king ready for war.
For we sinning voluntarily after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there is left no more a sacrifice for sins, But a certain terrible expectation of judgment and jealousy of fire, being about to devour the adversaries.
And king Herod heard his name; (for it was manifest:) and said, That John the Immerser was raised from the dead, and for this the powers were energetic in him.
Then Judas, he delivering him up, having seen that he was condemned, having felt regret, returned the thirty silver coins to the chief priests, and the more ancient, Saying, I have sinned, having delivered up guiltless blood. And they said, What to us? thou shalt see. And having cast down the silver coins in the temple, he withdrew and having gone away, he strangled him self.
The unjust fled and none pursuing, and the just shall be confident as the young lion.
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who by the eternal Spirit offered himself blameless to God, purify your consciousness from dead works to serve the living God?
And they having heard, and being convicted by consciousness, went out one by one, beginning from the eldest even to the last; and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.
To the overseer: chanting to David; In the coming to him of Nathan the prophet, when he went in to Bathsheba. Compassionate me, O God, according to thy mercy: according to the Multitude of thy compassions wipe away my transgressions. Multiply to wash me from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For I shall know my transgression, and my sin is always before me. read more.
Against thee, thee alone, did I sin, and I did evil in thine eyes: so that thou wilt be justified in thy speaking, and thou wilt be pure in thy judging.
Against thee, thee alone, did I sin, and I did evil in thine eyes: so that thou wilt be justified in thy speaking, and thou wilt be pure in thy judging.
Thou wilt purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: thou wilt wash me and I shall be white above snow. Thou wilt cause me to hear joy and gladness; the bones thou didst break shall rejoice. Hide thy face from my sin, and wipe away all mine iniquities. read more.
Create for me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit in my midst, Thou wilt not cast me away from thy face, and thou wilt not take thy holy spirit from me. Turn back to me the joy of thy salvation, and thy willing spirit shall uphold me. I will teach those transgressing, thy ways, and those sinning shall turn back to thee. Deliver me from bloods, O God the God of my salvation; my tongue shall rejoice in thy justice.
Create for me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit in my midst, Thou wilt not cast me away from thy face, and thou wilt not take thy holy spirit from me. Turn back to me the joy of thy salvation, and thy willing spirit shall uphold me. I will teach those transgressing, thy ways, and those sinning shall turn back to thee. Deliver me from bloods, O God the God of my salvation; my tongue shall rejoice in thy justice.
For this judgment was far off from us, and justice shall not overtake us: we shall wait for light, and behold, darkness; for brightness, and we shall walk in thick darkness. We shall feel for the wall as the blind, and we shall feel, as no eyes: we stumbled at noon as at evening twilight; in fertile fields as the dead. We shall growl as bears all of us, and murmuring we shall murmur as doves: we shall wait for judgment, and none; for salvation, it was far from us. read more.
For our transgressions were multiplied before thee, and our sins answered against us: for our transgressions are with us, and our iniquities we knew them. Transgressing and lying against Jehovah, and departing from after our God, speaking violence and apostasy, they conceived and muttered from the heart words of falsehood. And judgment was turned away behind, and justice shall stand from far off: for truth fainted in the street, and right will not be able to come in.
For our transgressions were multiplied before thee, and our sins answered against us: for our transgressions are with us, and our iniquities we knew them. Transgressing and lying against Jehovah, and departing from after our God, speaking violence and apostasy, they conceived and muttered from the heart words of falsehood. And judgment was turned away behind, and justice shall stand from far off: for truth fainted in the street, and right will not be able to come in.
In that time Herod the tetrarch heard the report of Jesus, And he said to his servants, This is John the Baptist; be was aroused from the dead; and for this, powers are energetic in him.
And Herod, having heard, said, That John whom I beheaded, this is he; he was raised from the dead.
And having heard, they were pricked in heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the sent, What shall we do, men, brethren?
In the hypocrisy of speaking falsely; burned with a hot iron in their own consciousness;
All things truly pure to the pure: and to the defiled and unbelieving nothing pure; but also their mind and consciousness are defiled.
Darkness » Illustrative of » Heavy afflictions
And they shall look to the earth, and behold, straits and darkness and fainting of distress; and to darkness being removed.
For I was not cut off from the face of darkness, and he covered misfortune from my face.
Light arose in darkness to the upright: merciful and compassionate and just
Also all his days in darkness shall he eat, and much vexation and his sickness and his anger.
And they shall groan against them in that day as the groaning of the sea: and they looked to the land and, behold, straitened darkness, and the light darkened in its clouds.
For this judgment was far off from us, and justice shall not overtake us: we shall wait for light, and behold, darkness; for brightness, and we shall walk in thick darkness.
Isaiah » Prophecies, reproofs, and exhortations of » Foretells calamities to judah
For this judgment was far off from us, and justice shall not overtake us: we shall wait for light, and behold, darkness; for brightness, and we shall walk in thick darkness. We shall feel for the wall as the blind, and we shall feel, as no eyes: we stumbled at noon as at evening twilight; in fertile fields as the dead. We shall growl as bears all of us, and murmuring we shall murmur as doves: we shall wait for judgment, and none; for salvation, it was far from us. read more.
For our transgressions were multiplied before thee, and our sins answered against us: for our transgressions are with us, and our iniquities we knew them.
For our transgressions were multiplied before thee, and our sins answered against us: for our transgressions are with us, and our iniquities we knew them.