Thematic Bible




Thematic Bible





If therefore you died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why do you practice ordinances as living in the world,??21 you shall not touch, you shall not taste, you shall not feel,??22 all which are to perish in the using??ccording to the commandments and instructions of men?

As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day; we are accounted as sheep for slaughter.

For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in our mortal flesh.





If therefore you died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why do you practice ordinances as living in the world,??21 you shall not touch, you shall not taste, you shall not feel,??22 all which are to perish in the using??ccording to the commandments and instructions of men?




By no means. How shall we who died to sin any longer live in it?






And I tell you, that whoever shall confess me before men, him will the Son of man confess before the angels of God; but he that has denied me before men, shall be denied before the angels of God.

Therefore I endure all things for the elect, that they may obtain the salvation in Christ Jesus with eternal glory. The saying is true, For if we died together we shall live together; if we endure patiently we shall reign together; if we deny him he will deny us;

Who is a liar but he that denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the anti-christ, [the man that] denies the Father and the Son. No one that denies the Son has the Father; he that confesses the Son has the Father also.




If therefore you died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why do you practice ordinances as living in the world,??21 you shall not touch, you shall not taste, you shall not feel,??22 all which are to perish in the using??ccording to the commandments and instructions of men?

As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day; we are accounted as sheep for slaughter.

For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in our mortal flesh.



The word is true, and I wish you to insist strongly concerning these things, that those who have believed in God may be careful to maintain good works. For these things are honorable and useful to men.



It is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation.


And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write, These things says the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God, I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot. Because therefore you are warm, and neither hot nor cold, I am about to spew you out of my mouth. read more.
For you say, I am rich and have become rich and have need of nothing, and know not that you are miserable, and pitiable, and poor, and blind, and naked. I advise you to buy of me gold purified in the fire that you may be rich, and white robes that you may put on, and the shame of your nakedness not appear, and an eye-salve to anoint your eyes that you may see. As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten; be zealous therefore and change your minds. Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any one shall hear my voice and open the door, I will enter in to him, and feast with him, and he with me. To him that conquers will I give to sit down with me on my throne, as I conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne.

Therefore I endure all things for the elect, that they may obtain the salvation in Christ Jesus with eternal glory. The saying is true, For if we died together we shall live together; if we endure patiently we shall reign together; if we deny him he will deny us;


for the Son of man goes as it has been determined, but woe to that man by whom he is betrayed. And they inquired among themselves which of them it was who was about to do this. And there was a contention among them as to which of them should be the greatest. read more.
And he said to them, The kings of the nations exercise lordship over them; and those having power are called their benefactors. But you shall not be so. But let the greater among you be as the younger, and the chief as he that serves. For which is greater, he that reclines, or he that serves? Is not he that reclines? But I am with you as he that serves. And you have continued with me in my trials, and I appoint you, as my Father has appointed me, a kingdom, that you may eat and drink at my table, in my kingdom, and sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write, These things says the Son of God, he that has his eyes like a flame of fire and his feet like fine brass, I know your works and love and faith and service and your patience, and your last works more than the first. But I have against you that you allow your wife Jezebel, who says she is a prophetess and teaches and deceives my servants to commit fornication and eat things offered to idols. read more.
And I gave her time to change her mind, and she will not change her mind from her fornication. Behold, I will cast her on a [sick] bed, and those committing adultery with her into great affliction, unless they change their minds from her works. And her children will I kill with pestilence, and all the churches shall know that I am he that searches the minds and hearts, and I will give you each one according to your works. But I say to the rest of you in Thyatira who have not this doctrine, who have not known the depths of Satan, as they say, I will put on you no other burden; but what you have, hold fast till I come. And to him that conquers and keeps my works till the end, I will give power over the nations, and he shall rule them with a rod of iron, and crush them like earthen vessels, as I also have received of my Father, and I will give him the star of the morning.

And when he took the book, the four cherubs and the twenty-four elders fell down before the lamb, each having a harp and golden bowls full of incense, which is the prayers of the saints: And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book and to open its seals, for thou wast killed and hast redeemed to God with thy blood [men] from every tribe and tongue and people and nation, and hast made them a kingdom and priests, and they shall reign on the earth.

And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given them, and the souls of those who have been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and the word of God, and who did not worship the beast nor his image and did not receive the mark on their forehead and on their right hand; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years; the rest of the dead did not live till the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is he that has part in the first resurrection; on these the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and Christ, and reign with him a thousand years.

And no curse shall be there any more. And the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and his servants shall serve him, and shall see his face, and his name shall be on their foreheads. And there shall be no night, and they shall have no need of a lamp and light, for the Lord God shall shed light on them, and they shall reign forever and ever.




If therefore you died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why do you practice ordinances as living in the world,??21 you shall not touch, you shall not taste, you shall not feel,??22 all which are to perish in the using??ccording to the commandments and instructions of men?




By no means. How shall we who died to sin any longer live in it?




For as many as are led by the Spirit of God they are sons of God. For you received not the spirit of servitude again to fear, but you received the spirit of adoption, by which we cry; Abba, Father. The Spirit itself is a co-witness with our spirits that we are children of God. read more.
And if children, [we are] also heirs, heirs indeed of God and co-heirs with Christ, if we suffer with him that we may also be glorified with him.

Christ therefore having suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind, for he that has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,


Therefore I endure all things for the elect, that they may obtain the salvation in Christ Jesus with eternal glory. The saying is true, For if we died together we shall live together; if we endure patiently we shall reign together; if we deny him he will deny us;

And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write, These things says the first and the last, who was dead and lived, I know your affliction and poverty, but you are rich, and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan. Fear not what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to cast some of you into prison, that you may be tried, and you shall have affliction ten days. Be faithful till death, and I will give you the crown of life.

And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given them, and the souls of those who have been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and the word of God, and who did not worship the beast nor his image and did not receive the mark on their forehead and on their right hand; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years; the rest of the dead did not live till the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is he that has part in the first resurrection; on these the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and Christ, and reign with him a thousand years.

But whatever things were my gain, these I have considered a loss for the sake of Christ. But for the same reason also I consider all things to be a loss on account of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and consider them worthless that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having my righteousness by the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness of God by the faith, read more.
that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the participation of his sufferings, being conformed to his death,

for the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and his ears attend to their prayer, but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil. And who is he that will injure you if you are followers of what is good? But even if you suffer on account of righteousness, you are blessed. But fear not with their fear, neither be troubled; read more.
and sanctify the anointed Lord in your hearts, and be always ready with a defense to every one that asks you a reason for the hope that is in you; but with meekness and fear, having a good conscience, that in what they speak evil of you they may be ashamed who slander your good conduct in Christ. For it is better to suffer doing good, if the will of God allows, than doing evil.




If therefore you died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why do you practice ordinances as living in the world,??21 you shall not touch, you shall not taste, you shall not feel,??22 all which are to perish in the using??ccording to the commandments and instructions of men?




By no means. How shall we who died to sin any longer live in it?






If therefore you died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why do you practice ordinances as living in the world,??21 you shall not touch, you shall not taste, you shall not feel,??22 all which are to perish in the using??ccording to the commandments and instructions of men?

As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day; we are accounted as sheep for slaughter.

For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in our mortal flesh.