Thematic Bible: The church compared to


Thematic Bible



“For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.

He spoke another parable to them, The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three pecks of flour until it was all leavened.”

“Then the kingdom of heaven will be comparable to ten virgins, who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.


The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man found and hid again; and from joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.

Jesus presented another parable to them, saying, The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field.

He presented another parable to them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field;

“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a dragnet cast into the sea, and gathering fish of every kind;

And He was saying, “The kingdom of God is like a man who casts seed upon the soil;

So He was saying, What is the kingdom of God like, and to what shall I compare it?






So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God's household, having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the corner stone,












“They will be Mine,” says the Lord of hosts, “on the day that I prepare My own possession, and I will spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him.”