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
and receive the reward of unrighteousness. They count it pleasure to live deliciously for a season. Spots they are, and filthiness, living at pleasure, and in deceitful ways feasting with you:

Feasts

1 Corinthians 11:21
For every man beginneth afore to eat his own supper. And one is hungry, and another is drunken.

Feeding

Psalm 78:29
So they ate, and were filled, for he gave them their own desire.
Isaiah 56:10
For his watchmen are all blind, they have altogether no understanding. They are all dumb dogs, no being able to bark; they are sleepery, sluggish, and lie snorting.
Ezekiel 34:8
Thus sayeth the LORD God: As truly as I live, forsomuch as my sheep are robbed, and devoured of all the wild beasts of the field, having no shepherd: and seeing that my shepherds take no regard of my sheep, but feed themselves only, and not my sheep:
Luke 12:19
and I will say to my soul: Soul, thou hast much goods laid up in store for many years, take thine ease: eat, drink and be merry.'
Luke 16:19
"There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple, and fine bysse, and fared deliciously every day.
Luke 21:34
Take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be overcome with surfeiting and drunkenness, and cares of this world: and that, that day come on you unawares.
Philippians 3:19
whose end is damnation, whose God is their belly and whose glory is to their shame, which are worldly minded.
1 Thessalonians 5:6
Therefore let us not sleep as do others: but let us watch and be sober.
James 5:5
Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth and in wantonness. Ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.

Clouds

Proverbs 25:14
Whoso maketh great boasts and giveth nothing, is like clouds and wind without rain.
Hosea 6:4
O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, how shall I entreat thee? Seeing your love is like a morning cloud, and like a dew that goeth early away.
2 Peter 2:17
These are wells without water, and clouds carried about of a tempest, to whom the mist of darkness is reserved forever.

Carried

Ephesians 4:14
That we henceforth be no more children, wavering and carried with every wind of doctrine, by the wiliness of men and craftiness, whereby they lay a wait for us to deceive us.

Trees

Psalm 1:3
And he shall be like a tree planted by the waterside, that will bring forth his fruit in due season. His leaf, also, shall not wither; and, look, whatsoever he doeth, it shall prosper.
Psalm 37:2
For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and be withered even as the green herb.
Matthew 13:6
And when the sun was up, it caught heat, and for lack of rooting withered away.
Matthew 21:19
and spied a fig tree in the way, and came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said to it, "Never fruit grow on thee hence forwards." And anon the fig tree withered away.
Mark 4:6
but as soon as the sun was up, it caught heat: and because it had not rooting it withered away.
Mark 11:21
And Peter remembered, and said unto him, "Master, behold, the fig tree which thou cursedst, is withered away."
Luke 8:6
And some fell on stone, and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moistness.
John 15:4
Abide in me, and let me abide in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine: no more can ye, except ye abide in me.

Twice

1 Timothy 5:6
but she that liveth in pleasure, is dead even yet alive.
Hebrews 6:4
For it is not possible that they which were once lighted, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were become partakers of the holy ghost,
2 Peter 2:18
For when they have spoken the swelling words of vanity, they beguile with wantonness through the lusts of the flesh them that were clean escaped: but now are wrapped in errors.

Plucked

2 Chronicles 7:20
then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them, and will cast this house which I have sanctified for my name out of my sight, and will make a proverb and a tale of it among all nations.
Ezekiel 17:9
Speak thou therefore, 'Thus sayeth the LORD God: Shall this vine prosper? Shall not his roots be plucked out, his fruit be broken off, his green branches wither and fade away? Yea without either strong armies or many people, shall it be plucked up by the roots.
Matthew 15:13
He answered, and said, "All plants which my heavenly father hath not planted, shall be plucked up by the roots.
Mark 11:20
And in the morning as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up by the roots.

General references

Leviticus 14:43
If now the plague come again and break out in the house, after that they have taken away the stones and scraped the house, and after that the house is plastered anew:
1 Samuel 2:15
Yea, and thereto before they had offered the fat, the priest's lad came and said to the man that offered, "Give flesh to roast for the priest, for he will not have sodden flesh of thee, but raw."
Proverbs 23:1
When thou sittest at the table to eat with a lord, order thyself mannerly with the things that are set before thee.
Luke 23:31
For if they do this to a green tree: what shall be done to the dry?"