Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Deceit » Saints » Should lay aside, in seeking truth
Envy » Not envying
Let us live decently as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in discord and jealousy.
Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, being jealous of one another.
Envy » Hinders growth in grace
So get rid of all evil and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. And yearn like newborn infants for pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up to salvation,
Evil » Speech evil speaking » Warnings against
You must put away every kind of bitterness, anger, wrath, quarreling, and evil, slanderous talk.
For the one who wants to love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from uttering deceit.
And the tongue is a fire! The tongue represents the world of wrongdoing among the parts of our bodies. It pollutes the entire body and sets fire to the course of human existence -- and is set on fire by hell.
Do not speak against one another, brothers and sisters. He who speaks against a fellow believer or judges a fellow believer speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but its judge.
Remind them to be subject to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work. They must not slander anyone, but be peaceable, gentle, showing complete courtesy to all people.
Evil » Speaking » Warnings against
You must put away every kind of bitterness, anger, wrath, quarreling, and evil, slanderous talk.
For the one who wants to love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from uttering deceit.
And the tongue is a fire! The tongue represents the world of wrongdoing among the parts of our bodies. It pollutes the entire body and sets fire to the course of human existence -- and is set on fire by hell.
Do not speak against one another, brothers and sisters. He who speaks against a fellow believer or judges a fellow believer speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but its judge.
Remind them to be subject to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work. They must not slander anyone, but be peaceable, gentle, showing complete courtesy to all people.
Grace of God » Growth in
For I am sure of this very thing, that the one who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.
We pray earnestly night and day to see you in person and make up what may be lacking in your faith.
He has not held fast to the head from whom the whole body, supported and knit together through its ligaments and sinews, grows with a growth that is from God.
But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the honor both now and on that eternal day.
But the path of the righteous is like the bright morning light, growing brighter and brighter until full day.
We ought to thank God always for you, brothers and sisters, and rightly so, because your faith flourishes more and more and the love of each one of you all for one another is ever greater.
They are sustained as they travel along; each one appears before God in Zion.
And I pray this, that your love may abound even more and more in knowledge and every kind of insight so that you can decide what is best, and thus be sincere and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God.
Not that I have already attained this -- that is, I have not already been perfected -- but I strive to lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus also laid hold of me. Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself to have attained this. Instead I am single-minded: Forgetting the things that are behind and reaching out for the things that are ahead, with this goal in mind, I strive toward the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. read more.
Therefore let those of us who are "perfect" embrace this point of view. If you think otherwise, God will reveal to you the error of your ways.
Therefore let those of us who are "perfect" embrace this point of view. If you think otherwise, God will reveal to you the error of your ways.
so that you may live worthily of the Lord and please him in all respects -- bearing fruit in every good deed, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might for the display of all patience and steadfastness, joyfully
And may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love for one another and for all, just as we do for you, so that your hearts are strengthened in holiness to be blameless before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
Therefore we must progress beyond the elementary instructions about Christ and move on to maturity, not laying this foundation again: repentance from dead works and faith in God, teaching about baptisms, laying on of hands, resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. And this is what we intend to do, if God permits.
So get rid of all evil and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. And yearn like newborn infants for pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up to salvation, if you have experienced the Lord's kindness.
Guile » Abstaining from guile
Then make sure you don't speak evil words or use deceptive speech!
Hypocrisy » Abstaining from hypocrisy
Hypocrites » Spirit of, hinders growth in grace
Malice » Condemned
You must put away every kind of bitterness, anger, wrath, quarreling, and evil, slanderous talk.
But now, put off all such things as anger, rage, malice, slander, abusive language from your mouth.
So then, let us celebrate the festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of vice and evil, but with the bread without yeast, the bread of sincerity and truth.
Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking. Instead, be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.
Malice » Not being malicious
You must put away every kind of bitterness, anger, wrath, quarreling, and evil, slanderous talk.
Malice » A hindrance to growth in grace
So get rid of all evil and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. And yearn like newborn infants for pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up to salvation,
Sincerity » Exhortations to
So then, let us celebrate the festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of vice and evil, but with the bread without yeast, the bread of sincerity and truth.
Then make sure you don't speak evil words or use deceptive speech!
Slander » Saints » Should lay aside
You must put away every kind of bitterness, anger, wrath, quarreling, and evil, slanderous talk.
Speaking, evil » Warnings against
You must put away every kind of bitterness, anger, wrath, quarreling, and evil, slanderous talk.
For the one who wants to love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from uttering deceit.
And the tongue is a fire! The tongue represents the world of wrongdoing among the parts of our bodies. It pollutes the entire body and sets fire to the course of human existence -- and is set on fire by hell.
Do not speak against one another, brothers and sisters. He who speaks against a fellow believer or judges a fellow believer speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but its judge.
Remind them to be subject to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work. They must not slander anyone, but be peaceable, gentle, showing complete courtesy to all people.