'Thing' in the Bible

And someone came to Him and said, “Teacher, what good thing shall I do that I may obtain eternal life?”

Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did the same thing.

Jesus said to them, “I will also ask you one thing, which if you tell Me, I will also tell you by what authority I do these things.

The man came to the second and said the same thing; and he answered, ‘I will, sir’; but he did not go.

Again he sent another group of slaves larger than the first; and they did the same thing to them.

Peter *said to Him, “Even if I have to die with You, I will not deny You.” All the disciples said the same thing too.

And He left them again, and went away and prayed a third time, saying the same thing once more.

Looking at him, Jesus felt a love for him and said to him, “One thing you lack: go and sell all you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.”

But Peter kept saying insistently, “Even if I have to die with You, I will not deny You!” And they all were saying the same thing also.

When the angels had gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds began saying to one another, “Let us go straight to Bethlehem then, and see this thing that has happened which the Lord has made known to us.”

If then you cannot do even a very little thing, why do you worry about other matters?

“He who is faithful in a very little thing is faithful also in much; and he who is unrighteous in a very little thing is unrighteous also in much.

When Jesus heard this, He said to him, “One thing you still lack; sell all that you possess and distribute it to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.”

And he said to him, ‘Well done, good slave, because you have been faithful in a very little thing, you are to be in authority over ten cities.’

And they began to discuss among themselves which one of them it might be who was going to do this thing.

Nathanael said to him, “Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?” Philip *said to him, “Come and see.”

He then answered, “Whether He is a sinner, I do not know; one thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see.”

The man answered and said to them, “Well, here is an amazing thing, that you do not know where He is from, and yet He opened my eyes.

Some of His disciples then said to one another, “What is this thing He is telling us, ‘A little while, and you will not see Me; and again a little while, and you will see Me’; and, ‘because I go to the Father’?”

you yourselves know the thing which took place throughout all Judea, starting from Galilee, after the baptism which John proclaimed.

Therefore take heed, so that the thing spoken of in the Prophets may not come upon you:

So then, some were shouting one thing and some another, for the assembly was in confusion and the majority did not know for what reason they had come together.

But among the crowd some were shouting one thing and some another, and when he could not find out the facts because of the uproar, he ordered him to be brought into the barracks.

For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate.

But if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with the Law, confessing that the Law is good.

But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me.

nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

On the contrary, who are you, O man, who answers back to God? The thing molded will not say to the molder, “Why did you make me like this,” will it?

For because of this you also pay taxes, for rulers are servants of God, devoting themselves to this very thing.

Therefore do not let what is for you a good thing be spoken of as evil;

But to me it is a very small thing that I may be examined by you, or by any human court; in fact, I do not even examine myself.

Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that there is no such thing as an idol in the world, and that there is no God but one.

What do I mean then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

This is the very thing I wrote you, so that when I came, I would not have sorrow from those who ought to make me rejoice; having confidence in you all that my joy would be the joy of you all.

For behold what earnestness this very thing, this godly sorrow, has produced in you: what vindication of yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what avenging of wrong! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be innocent in the matter.

We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ,

They only asked us to remember the poor—the very thing I also was eager to do.

This is the only thing I want to find out from you: did you receive the Spirit by the works of the Law, or by hearing with faith?

that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless.

knowing that whatever good thing each one does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether slave or free.

For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.

who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped,

Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead,

and I pray that the fellowship of your faith may become effective through the knowledge of every good thing which is in you for Christ’s sake.

It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

equip you in every good thing to do His will, working in us that which is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow.

For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every evil thing.

Therefore, to one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, to him it is sin.

Keep your behavior excellent among the Gentiles, so that in the thing in which they slander you as evildoers, they may because of your good deeds, as they observe them, glorify God in the day of visitation.

and keep a good conscience so that in the thing in which you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ will be put to shame.

Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal among you, which comes upon you for your testing, as though some strange thing were happening to you;

And every created thing which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all things in them, I heard saying,“To Him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb, be blessing and honor and glory and dominion forever and ever.”

They were told not to hurt the grass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree, but only the men who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.

The second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it became blood like that of a dead man; and every living thing in the sea died.