Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

Are spots

Carried

Bible References

Are spots

2 Peter 2:13
suffering wrong as the wages of doing wrong. They count it a pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are stains and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, as they carouse with you,

Feasts

1 Corinthians 11:21
for in your eating each one takes his own supper first; and one is hungry and another is drunk.

Feeding

Psalm 78:29
So they ate and were well filled,
And their desire He gave to them.
Isaiah 56:10
His watchmen are blind,
All of them know nothing.
All of them are mute dogs unable to bark,
Dreamers lying down, who love to slumber;
Ezekiel 34:8
“As I live,” declares the Lord God, “surely because My flock has become a prey, My flock has even become food for all the beasts of the field for lack of a shepherd, and My shepherds did not search for My flock, but rather the shepherds fed themselves and did not feed My flock;
Luke 12:19
And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years to come; take your ease, eat, drink and be merry.”’
Luke 16:19
“Now there was a rich man, and he habitually dressed in purple and fine linen, joyously living in splendor every day.
Luke 21:34
Be on guard, so that your hearts will not be weighted down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of life, and that day will not come on you suddenly like a trap;
Philippians 3:19
whose end is destruction, whose god is their appetite, and whose glory is in their shame, who set their minds on earthly things.
1 Thessalonians 5:6
so then let us not sleep as others do, but let us be alert and sober.
James 5:5
You have lived luxuriously on the earth and led a life of wanton pleasure; you have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.

Clouds

Proverbs 25:14
Like clouds and wind without rain
Is a man who boasts of his gifts falsely.
Hosea 6:4
What shall I do with you, O Ephraim?
What shall I do with you, O Judah?
For your loyalty is like a morning cloud
And like the dew which goes away early.
2 Peter 2:17
These are springs without water and mists driven by a storm, for whom the black darkness has been reserved.

Carried

Ephesians 4:14
As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming;

Trees

Psalm 1:3
He will be like a tree firmly planted by streams of water,
Which yields its fruit in its season
And its leaf does not wither;
And in whatever he does, he prospers.
Psalm 37:2
For they will wither quickly like the grass
And fade like the green herb.
Matthew 13:6
But when the sun had risen, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.
Matthew 21:19
Seeing a lone fig tree by the road, He came to it and found nothing on it except leaves only; and He *said to it, “No longer shall there ever be any fruit from you.” And at once the fig tree withered.
Mark 4:6
And after the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.
Mark 11:21
Being reminded, Peter *said to Him, “Rabbi, look, the fig tree which You cursed has withered.”
Luke 8:6
Other seed fell on rocky soil, and as soon as it grew up, it withered away, because it had no moisture.
John 15:4
Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me.

Twice

1 Timothy 5:6
But she who gives herself to wanton pleasure is dead even while she lives.
Hebrews 6:4
For in the case of those who have once been enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit,
2 Peter 2:18
For speaking out arrogant words of vanity they entice by fleshly desires, by sensuality, those who barely escape from the ones who live in error,

Plucked

2 Chronicles 7:20
then I will uproot you from My land which I have given you, and this house which I have consecrated for My name I will cast out of My sight and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
Ezekiel 17:9
Say, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “Will it thrive? Will he not pull up its roots and cut off its fruit, so that it withers—so that all its sprouting leaves wither? And neither by great strength nor by many people can it be raised from its roots again.
Matthew 15:13
But He answered and said, Every plant which My heavenly Father did not plant shall be uprooted.
Mark 11:20
As they were passing by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered from the roots up.

General references

Leviticus 14:43
“If, however, the mark breaks out again in the house after he has torn out the stones and scraped the house, and after it has been replastered,
1 Samuel 2:15
Also, before they burned the fat, the priest’s servant would come and say to the man who was sacrificing, “Give the priest meat for roasting, as he will not take boiled meat from you, only raw.”
Proverbs 23:1
When you sit down to dine with a ruler,
Consider carefully what is before you,
Luke 23:31
For if they do these things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?”