Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Boasting » What not to boast of
Boast not thyself of tomorrow for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
Come now, ye that say, Today and tomorrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year and buy and sell and get gain; and ye do not know what shall be tomorrow. For what is your life? Certainly it is a vapour that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. Ye ought to say instead, If the Lord wills, and if we live, we shall do this or that. read more.
But now ye boast in your arrogance; all such glory is evil.
But now ye boast in your arrogance; all such glory is evil.
Commerce » Called » Buying and selling
Come now, ye that say, Today and tomorrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year and buy and sell and get gain;
Common delusions » Presuming upon unchanging conditions
Come now, ye that say, Today and tomorrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year and buy and sell and get gain; and ye do not know what shall be tomorrow. For what is your life? Certainly it is a vapour that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
Evil » What is evil
Come now, ye that say, Today and tomorrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year and buy and sell and get gain; and ye do not know what shall be tomorrow. For what is your life? Certainly it is a vapour that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. Ye ought to say instead, If the Lord wills, and if we live, we shall do this or that. read more.
But now ye boast in your arrogance; all such glory is evil.
But now ye boast in your arrogance; all such glory is evil.
And the LORD smelled a savour of rest, and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, for the intent of man's heart is evil from his childhood; neither will I again smite any more every living thing as I have done.
For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters to hew them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked; who shall know it? I the LORD search the heart; I try the kidneys, even to give each man according to his ways and according to the fruit of his doings.
Certainly the greedy use evil measures: he devises wicked devices to ensnare the simple with lying words and to speak in judgment against the poor.
And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Verse Concepts
This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all; and also that the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
There is another evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceeds from the ruler: Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich are seated in a low place. I saw slaves upon horses, and princes walking as slaves upon the earth.
Happiness of the The Wicked » Is uncertain
But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee; then whose shall those things be which thou hast stored up?
Come now, ye that say, Today and tomorrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year and buy and sell and get gain; and ye do not know what shall be tomorrow. For what is your life? Certainly it is a vapour that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
natural Life » Described as » Uncertain
Come now, ye that say, Today and tomorrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year and buy and sell and get gain; and ye do not know what shall be tomorrow. For what is your life? Certainly it is a vapour that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. Ye ought to say instead, If the Lord wills, and if we live, we shall do this or that.
Plans of men » Bold » Business man
Come now, ye that say, Today and tomorrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year and buy and sell and get gain;
Plans of men » Plans, examples of » Bold » Business man
Come now, ye that say, Today and tomorrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year and buy and sell and get gain;
Presuming upon time » Indulging in dreams of future gain
Come now, ye that say, Today and tomorrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year and buy and sell and get gain; and ye do not know what shall be tomorrow. For what is your life? Certainly it is a vapour that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
Presumption » Warnings against
and chiefly those that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise dominion; presumptuous, arrogant, they are not afraid to speak evil of the higher powers;
But the person that does something consciously, whether they are natural born or a stranger, the same reproaches the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
Woe unto him that strives with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashions it, What doth thou make; thy work has no form?
Come now, ye that say, Today and tomorrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year and buy and sell and get gain;
But the prophet which shall presume to speak a word in my name which I have not commanded him to speak or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.
Neither let us tempt the Christ, as some of them also tempted and perished by the serpents.
Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.
Presumption » Exhibited in » Planning for futurity
And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my storehouses and build greater, and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.
Come now, ye that say, Today and tomorrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year and buy and sell and get gain;
Presumption » Presuming upon time and opportunity, common ways of » Indulging in dreams of future gain
Come now, ye that say, Today and tomorrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year and buy and sell and get gain; and ye do not know what shall be tomorrow. For what is your life? Certainly it is a vapour that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
Presumptuous plans » Examples of » Bold » Business man
Come now, ye that say, Today and tomorrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year and buy and sell and get gain;
Self-delusion » Exhibited in thinking that » Our lives shall be prolonged
Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow shall be as this day, or much more excellent.
And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast many goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
Come now, ye that say, Today and tomorrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year and buy and sell and get gain;
Self-delusion » Exhibited in thinking that » Our lives will be prolonged
Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow shall be as this day, or much more excellent.
And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast many goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
Come now, ye that say, Today and tomorrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year and buy and sell and get gain;
Time » Presuming upon time and opportunity, common ways of » Indulging in dreams of future gain
Come now, ye that say, Today and tomorrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year and buy and sell and get gain; and ye do not know what shall be tomorrow. For what is your life? Certainly it is a vapour that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.