Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Boasting » What not to boast of
Boast not thyself of tomorrow, for thou know not what a day may bring forth.
Go now, men who say, Today and tomorrow we will go into this city, and will operate one year there, and will engage in trade and will get gain-- men who know not of the morrow. For what is your life? For it will be a vapor that appears for a little while, and then also vanishes away-- in place of your saying, If the Lord should will, then we will live and do this or that. read more.
But now ye boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
But now ye boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
death » Preparation for
And if ye call on a Father, him who judges impartially according to each man's work, live the time of your sojourn in fear.
I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. Night comes when no man can work.
LORD, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is. Let me know how frail I am.
In those days Hezekiah was sick to death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, Thus says LORD, Set thy house in order, for thou shall die, and not live.
Because to him who is joined with all the living there is hope, for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
For both if we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord. Both if we live and if we die, therefore, we are the Lord's.
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
For here we have no enduring city, but we seek that which is coming.
Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
O spare me, that I may recover strength before I go from here, and be no more.
So teach us to number our days, that we may get us a heart of wisdom.
Whatever thy hand finds to do, do with thy might, for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where thou go.
Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun. Yea, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all. But let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.
For Sheol cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee. Those who go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth. The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day. The father to the sons shall make known thy truth.
Let your loins be girded about, and the lights burning, and be ye like men waiting for their lord, when he may return from the wedding festivities, so that when he comes and knocks, they may straightaway open to him. Blessed are those bondmen whom the lord when he comes will find watching. Truly I say to you, that he will gird himself, and will cause them to sit down, and having come, will serve them.
in place of your saying, If the Lord should will, then we will live and do this or that.
Evil » What is evil
Go now, men who say, Today and tomorrow we will go into this city, and will operate one year there, and will engage in trade and will get gain-- men who know not of the morrow. For what is your life? For it will be a vapor that appears for a little while, and then also vanishes away-- in place of your saying, If the Lord should will, then we will live and do this or that. read more.
But now ye boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
But now ye boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
And LORD smelled the sweet savor. And LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, for that the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I again any more smite everything
For my people have committed two evils: They have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it? I, LORD, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.
And the instruments of the churl are evil. He devises wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.
And LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Verse Concepts
This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all. Yea also, 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 an evil which I have seen under the sun, as it were an error which proceeds from the ruler: Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in a low place. I have seen servants upon horses, and rulers walking like servants upon the earth.
God » Will of, submission to » The rule of every-day life
And the world passes away, and the lust of it, but he who does the will of God abides into the age.
in place of your saying, If the Lord should will, then we will live and do this or that.
natural Life » Described as » Uncertain
Go now, men who say, Today and tomorrow we will go into this city, and will operate one year there, and will engage in trade and will get gain-- men who know not of the morrow. For what is your life? For it will be a vapor that appears for a little while, and then also vanishes away-- in place of your saying, If the Lord should will, then we will live and do this or that.
The Surrendered life » Submission to the divine will » The rule of every-day life
And the world passes away, and the lust of it, but he who does the will of God abides into the age.
in place of your saying, If the Lord should will, then we will live and do this or that.
Will » God's, submission to » The rule of every-day life
And the world passes away, and the lust of it, but he who does the will of God abides into the age.
in place of your saying, If the Lord should will, then we will live and do this or that.