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
receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and blemishes, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you;

Feasts

1 Corinthians 11:21
For in your eating each one takes his own supper first. One is hungry, and another is drunken.

Feeding

Psalm 78:29
So they ate, and were well filled. He gave them their own desire.
Isaiah 56:10
His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all mute dogs, they can't bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
Ezekiel 34:8
As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely because my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became food to all the animals of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and didn't feed my sheep;
Luke 12:19
I will tell my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry."'
Luke 16:19
"Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.
Luke 21:34
"So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.
Philippians 3:19
whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.
1 Thessalonians 5:6
so then let's not sleep, as the rest do, but let's watch and be sober.
James 5:5
You have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

Clouds

Proverbs 25:14
As clouds and wind without rain, so is he who boasts of gifts deceptively.
Hosea 6:4
"Ephraim, what shall I do to you? Judah, what shall I do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew that disappears early.
2 Peter 2:17
These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.

Carried

Ephesians 4:14
that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

Trees

Psalm 1:3
He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.
Psalm 37:2
For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither like the green herb.
Matthew 13:6
When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root, they withered away.
Matthew 21:19
Seeing a fig tree by the road, he came to it, and found nothing on it but leaves. He said to it, "Let there be no fruit from you forever!" Immediately the fig tree withered away.
Mark 4:6
When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.
Mark 11:21
Peter, remembering, said to him, "Rabbi, look! The fig tree which you cursed has withered away."
Luke 8:6
Other seed fell on the rock, and as soon as it grew, it withered away, because it had no moisture.
John 15:4
Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can't bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.

Twice

1 Timothy 5:6
But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.
Hebrews 6:4
For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,
2 Peter 2:18
For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;

Plucked

2 Chronicles 7:20
then I will pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy 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 Yahweh: Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up its roots, and cut off its fruit, that it may wither; that all its fresh springing leaves may wither? and not by a strong arm or many people can it be raised from its roots.
Matthew 15:13
But he answered, "Every plant which my heavenly Father didn't plant will be uprooted.
Mark 11:20
As they passed by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered away from the roots.

General references

Leviticus 14:43
"If the plague comes again, and breaks out in the house, after he has taken out the stones, and after he has scraped the house, and after it was plastered;
1 Samuel 2:15
Yes, before they burnt the fat, the priest's servant came, and said to the man who sacrificed, "Give meat to roast for the priest; for he will not accept boiled meat from you, but raw."
Proverbs 23:1
When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you;
Luke 23:31
For if they do these things in the green tree, what will be done in the dry?"