Thematic Bible




Thematic Bible



Your faith and love have arisen from the hope laid up for you in heaven, which you have heard about in the message of truth, the gospel that has come to you. Just as in the entire world this gospel is bearing fruit and growing, so it has also been bearing fruit and growing among you from the first day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth.

Now I want to make clear for you, brothers and sisters, the gospel that I preached to you, that you received and on which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message I preached to you -- unless you believed in vain.


Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, "Today I recall my failures.

and by which you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message I preached to you -- unless you believed in vain.


after they were disobedient long ago when God patiently waited in the days of Noah as an ark was being constructed. In the ark a few, that is eight souls, were delivered through water. And this prefigured baptism, which now saves you -- not the washing off of physical dirt but the pledge of a good conscience to God -- through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

even though we were dead in transgressions, made us alive together with Christ -- by grace you are saved! --


He said to the woman, "Your faith has saved you; go in peace."

Jesus said to him, "Receive your sight; your faith has healed you."

Now I want to make clear for you, brothers and sisters, the gospel that I preached to you, that you received and on which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message I preached to you -- unless you believed in vain.


For in hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope, because who hopes for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with endurance.

For human anger does not accomplish God's righteousness. So put away all filth and evil excess and humbly welcome the message implanted within you, which is able to save your souls.





and by which you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message I preached to you -- unless you believed in vain.





and by which you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message I preached to you -- unless you believed in vain.