Thematic Bible: The Heathen
Thematic Bible
the Heathen » Employed to chastise the church
And I will straw you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you, and your land shall be waste, and your cities desolate.
Wherefore, O king, be content with my counsel, that thou mayest lose thy sins with righteousness, and thine offenses with mercy to poor people: for such things shall prolong thy peace."
For I am perfectly informed of the LORD, that he hath sent a message already unto the Heathen. Gather you together, and go forth against them: make you ready to the battle,
{Gimel} Judah is taken prisoner, because she was defiled: and for serving so many strange gods, she dwelleth now among the heathen. She findeth no rest: all they that persecuted her, took her in strait places where she could not escape.
Wherefore, I will bring the most cruel tyrants from among the Heathen to take their houses in possession. I will make the pomp of the proud to cease, and they shall take in their Sanctuary.
behold, I will stretch out mine hand over thee also, and deliver thee to be spoiled of the Heathen, and root thee out from among the people, and cause thee to be destroyed out of all lands. Yea, I will make thee be laid waste, that thou mayest know that I am the LORD.
Behold among the Heathen, and look well: wonder at it, and be abashed: For I will do a thing in your time, which though it be told you, ye shall not believe. For lo, I will raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and swift people: which shall go as wide as the land is, to take possession of dwelling places that be not their own. A grim and boisterous people is it, these shall sit in judgment and punish. read more.
Their horses are swifter than the cats of the mountain, and bite sorer than the wolves in the evening. Their horsemen come by great heaps from far, they flee hastily to devour as the Eagle. They come all to spoil: out of them cometh an east wind, which bloweth and gathereth their captives, like as the sand.
Their horses are swifter than the cats of the mountain, and bite sorer than the wolves in the evening. Their horsemen come by great heaps from far, they flee hastily to devour as the Eagle. They come all to spoil: out of them cometh an east wind, which bloweth and gathereth their captives, like as the sand.
the Heathen » Salvation of, foretold
And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curse thee. And in thee shall be blessed all the generations of the earth."
For the scripture saw aforehand, that God would justify the heathen through faith, and therefore showed beforehand glad tidings unto Abraham: "In thee shall all nations be blessed."
It shall come to pass in the last days that the mount of the house of the LORD, shall be set in the top of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills: and all nations shall resort thereto. And much people shall go and say: come, and let us go up to the hill of the LORD and unto the house of the God of Jacob: that he may teach us his ways, and that we may walk in his paths. For out of Zion shall come the law, and the word of God out of Jerusalem. And he shall be judge among the heathen and tell many nations their faults. And they shall turn their swords into mattocks and their spears into scythes. One nation shall not lift up a sword against another, neither shall they teach to war any more.
The LORD will make bare his holy arm, and show it forth in the sight of all the Gentiles, and all the ends of the earth shall see the saving health of our God.
Up and receive light, Jerusalem: for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is up over thee. For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and a thick mist the nations. But the LORD shall rise as the sun over thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. And the heathen shall walk in thy light, and the kings in the brightness that is risen over thee. read more.
Lift up thine eyes round about and see. All these are gathered together and are come unto thee. Thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be ever by thy side. Then thou shalt see, and shalt have plenty: thine heart shall wonder and break out in joy, when the multitude of the sea are turned to thee, and the armies of the heathen are come unto thee. The abundance of camels shall cover thee, and the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah shall come all of them from Sheba, and bring gold and frankincense, and shall preach the praise of the LORD. All the cattle of Cedar shall be gathered unto thee, the rams Nebaioth shall serve thee, to be offered upon mine altar, which I have chosen, and in the house of my glory which I have garnished. But what are these that flee here like clouds, and as the doves flying to their windows?
Lift up thine eyes round about and see. All these are gathered together and are come unto thee. Thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be ever by thy side. Then thou shalt see, and shalt have plenty: thine heart shall wonder and break out in joy, when the multitude of the sea are turned to thee, and the armies of the heathen are come unto thee. The abundance of camels shall cover thee, and the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah shall come all of them from Sheba, and bring gold and frankincense, and shall preach the praise of the LORD. All the cattle of Cedar shall be gathered unto thee, the rams Nebaioth shall serve thee, to be offered upon mine altar, which I have chosen, and in the house of my glory which I have garnished. But what are these that flee here like clouds, and as the doves flying to their windows?
the Heathen » God » Punishes
How thou hast driven out the Heathen with thy hand, and planted them in; how thou hast destroyed the nations and cast them out.
Muster you, and come, all ye Heathen round about. Gather you together, there shall the LORD lay all thy giants to the ground. Let the people arise, and get them to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit, and judge all Heathen round about. Lay to your scythes, for the harvest is ripe. Come, get you down: the winepress is full, yea the winepresses run over, for their wickedness is waxen great.
Thou troddest down the land in thine anger, and didst thrash the Heathen in thy displeasure.
If the kindred of Egypt go not up, and come not, it shall not rain upon them neither. This shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all Heathen, that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
the Heathen » The gospel to be preached to
Go therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the father and the son and the holy ghost;
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And this glad tidings of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world, for a witness unto all nations, and then shall the end come.
but now is opened at this time and declared opened by the scriptures of prophecy, at the commandment of the everlasting God, to stir up obedience to the faith published among all nations:
for to declare his son by me, that I should preach him among the heathen: Immediately I commended not of the matter with flesh and blood,
the Heathen » The gospel received by
The gentiles heard, and were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord, and believed even as many as were ordained unto eternal life.
and gave them letters in their hands after this manner, "The apostles, elders, and brethren send greetings unto the brethren which are of the gentiles in Antioch, Syria and Cilicia.
And the Apostles and the brethren that were throughout Jewry heard say that the Heathen had also received the word of God.
And after they were brought on their way by the congregation, they passed over Phoenicia and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles, and they brought great joy unto all the brethren.
the Heathen » Described as » Filthy
And the children of Israel which were come again out of captivity, and all such as had separated themselves unto them from the filthiness of the Heathen in the land, to seek the LORD God of Israel, ate
Which, being past repentance, have given themselves unto wantonness, to work all manner of uncleanness even with greediness.
For it is shame even to name those things which are done of them in secret:
the Heathen » The church shall be avenged of
For the day of the LORD is hard by upon all Heathen. Like as thou hast done, so shalt thou be dealt withal. Yea, thou shalt be rewarded even upon thine head.
Pour out thine indignation rather upon the Gentiles, that know thee not, and upon the people that call not on thy name: And that because they have consumed, devoured and destroyed Jacob, and have rooted out his glory.
the Heathen » Described as » Idolatrous
and turned the glory of the immortal God, unto the similitude of the image: of mortal man, and of birds, and four footed beasts and of serpents.
which turned his truth unto a lie, and worshipped and served the creatures more than the creator, which is blessed forever, Amen.
As for the images of the heathen, they are but silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
the Heathen » Described as » Ignorant
blinded in their understanding, being strangers from the life which is in God, through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their hearts.
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For when the world, through wisdom, knew not God in the wisdom of God: it pleased God through foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
the Heathen » Described as » Persecuting
In journeying often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers; in jeopardies of mine own nation, in jeopardies among the heathen. I have been in perils in cities, in perils in wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;
W hy did the heathen rage and the people imagine vain things? The kings of the earth stood up and the rulers came together against the LORD, and against his Christ.
the Heathen » Aid missions to
And when I was present with you and had need, I was grievous to no man. For that which was lacking unto me, the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I kept myself that I should not be grievous to you: and so will I keep myself.
which bare witness of thy love before all the congregation. Which brethren, when thou bringest forwards on their journey - as it beseemeth God - thou shalt do well: because that for his name's sake they went forth, and took nothing of the gentiles.
the Heathen » The glory of God to be declared amongst
Declare his honour among the Heathen, and his wonders among all people. {TYNDALE: Tell among the heathen of his glory, and among all nations of his wonderful deeds.}
the Heathen » God » Rules over
and said, "LORD God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven, and reignest not thou on all the kingdoms of the heathen? And in thine hand is power and might, that no man can stand before thee.
God reigneth over the Heathen; God sitteth upon his holy seat.
the Heathen » Evil of imitating
But went in the way of the kings of Israel, and thereto he offered his son in fire, after the abomination of the heathen which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
that ye may know that I am the LORD, in whose commandments ye have not walked, nor kept his laws: but have done after the customs of the Heathen, that lie round about you.'"
the Heathen » Cautions against imitating
"And when ye pray, babble not much, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard, for their much babbling's sake.
Thus sayeth the LORD, "Ye shall not learn after the manner of the Heathen, and ye shall not be afraid for the tokens of heaven: for the Heathen are afraid of such.
the Heathen » Salvation provided for
Be it known therefore unto you, that this salvation of God is sent to the gentiles, and they shall hear it."
And let the gentiles praise God for his mercy. As it is written, "For this cause I will praise thee among the gentiles, and sing in thy name." And again he saith, "Ye gentiles rejoice with his people." And again, "Praise the Lord all ye gentiles, and laud him all nations." read more.
And in another place Isaiah saith, "There shall be the root of Jesse, and he that shall rise to reign over the gentiles: in him shall the gentiles trust."
And in another place Isaiah saith, "There shall be the root of Jesse, and he that shall rise to reign over the gentiles: in him shall the gentiles trust."
the Heathen » God » Will be exalted among
"Be still then, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the Heathen, I will be exalted upon earth."
the Heathen » Described as » Cruel
without understanding, covenant-breakers, unloving, truce-breakers, and merciless.
Look upon the covenant, for the dark houses of the earth are full of wickedness.
the Heathen » Praise God for success of the gospel amongst
When they heard this, they held their peace and glorified God, saying, "Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life."
O sing unto the LORD a new song; for he hath done marvelous things. With his own righthand and with his holy arm hath he gotten himself the victory. The LORD hath declared his salvation, and his righteousness hath he openly showed in the sight of the heathen. He hath remembered his mercy and truth toward the house of Israel: so that all the ends of the world see the salvation of our God.
the Heathen » Conversion of, acceptable to God
for this purpose: that I should be the minister of Jesus Christ among the gentiles, and should minister the glad tidings of God, that the gentiles might be an acceptable offering, sanctified by the holy ghost.
but in all people, he that feareth him and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.
the Heathen » Given to Christ
Then gave he him power and dignity regal, that all people, tribes and tongues should serve him. His power is an everlasting power, which shall never be put down: and his kingdom endureth uncorrupt.
Desire of me, and I shall give thee the Heathen for thine inheritance; and the uttermost parts of the world for thy possession.
the Heathen » The holy ghost poured out upon
While Peter yet spake these words, the holy ghost fell on all them which heard the preaching.
And God which knoweth the heart, bare them witness, and gave unto them the holy ghost, even as he did unto us;
the Heathen » Described as » Worshippers of the devil
Nay, but I say, that these things which the gentiles offer, they offer to devils, and not to God. And I would not that ye should have fellowship with the devils.
the Heathen » Degradation of
"'If thou wilt have bondservants and maidens, thou shalt buy them of the heathen that are round about you,
the Heathen » Described as » Strangers to the covenant of promise
remember, I say, that ye were at that time without Christ, and were reputed aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and were strangers from the testaments of promise, and had no hope, and were without God in this world.
the Heathen » Described as » Having no hope
remember, I say, that ye were at that time without Christ, and were reputed aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and were strangers from the testaments of promise, and had no hope, and were without God in this world.
the Heathen » Have » Evidence of the power of God
Seeing what may be known of God, that same is manifest among them: For God did show it unto them. So that his invisible things, that is to say, his eternal power and godhead, are understood and seen by the works from the creation of the world. So that they are without excuse,
the Heathen » Have » The testimony of conscience
For if the gentiles, which have no law, do of nature the things contained in the law: then they having no law, are a law unto themselves, which show the deed of the law written in their hearts: While their conscience beareth witness unto them, and also their thoughts, accusing one another, or excusing,
the Heathen » God » Will finally judge
But whosoever hath sinned without law, shall perish without law. And as many as have sinned under the law, shall be judged by the law. For before God they are not righteous which hear the law: but the doers of the law shall be justified. For if the gentiles, which have no law, do of nature the things contained in the law: then they having no law, are a law unto themselves, read more.
which show the deed of the law written in their hearts: While their conscience beareth witness unto them, and also their thoughts, accusing one another, or excusing, at the day when God shall judge the secrets of men, by Jesus Christ according to my Gospel.
which show the deed of the law written in their hearts: While their conscience beareth witness unto them, and also their thoughts, accusing one another, or excusing, at the day when God shall judge the secrets of men, by Jesus Christ according to my Gospel.
the Heathen » Are without God and Christ
remember, I say, that ye were at that time without Christ, and were reputed aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and were strangers from the testaments of promise, and had no hope, and were without God in this world.
the Heathen » Baptism to be administered to
Go therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the father and the son and the holy ghost;
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the Heathen » Danger of intercourse with
but were mingled among the Heathen, and learned their works -
the Heathen » Necessity for preaching to
But how shall they call on him, on whom they believed not? How shall they believe on him of whom they have not heard? How shall they hear without a preacher?
the Heathen » Pray for
That we may know thy way upon earth, thy saving health among all heathen. Let the people praise thee, O God; yea, let all people praise thee. O let the nations rejoice and be glad; for thou shalt judge the folk righteously, and govern the nations upon earth. read more.
Let the people praise thee, O God; let all people praise thee.
Let the people praise thee, O God; let all people praise thee.
the Heathen » Described as » Scoffing at saints
Wherefore shall the heathen say, "Where is now their God?" O let the vengeance of thy servant's blood that is shed, be openly showed upon the heathen in our sight.
the Heathen » God » Brings to nought the counsels of
The LORD bringeth the counsel of the Heathen to naught, and maketh the devices of the people to be of none effect, and casteth out the counsels of princes.
the Heathen » Have » Evidence of the goodness of God
Nevertheless, he left not himself without witness, in that he showed his benefits, in giving us rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness."
Scoffing » Instances of » the Heathen
Thus sayeth the LORD God: Because your enemy hath said upon you, 'Aha, the high everlasting places are now become ours': prophesy therefore, and speak: thus sayeth the LORD God: Seeing ye be wasted and trod down on every side, and become a possession unto the residue of the Gentiles, which have brought you into men's mouths and unto an evil name among the people: