Thematic Bible: Against


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For if we sin deliberately, after receiving the knowledge of the Truth, there is no longer any sacrifice for sins left, nothing but an awful outlook of doom, of that burning Wrath which will consume the foes of God.


in point of ardour a persecutor of the church, immaculate by the standard of legal righteousness. Verse ConceptseagernessRestored In Jesus ChristPerfection, HumanZealFulfilling The LawPlea Of InnocenceThe Church UniversalPersecutionzealots

there was not a synagogue where I did not often punish them and force them to blaspheme; and in my frantic fury I persecuted them even to foreign towns. Verse ConceptsForeign ThingsBlasphemy


You know the story of my past career in Judaism; you know how furiously I persecuted the church of God and harried it, Verse ConceptsPaul, Life OfZeal, Without KnowledgeDestruction Of The ChurchThe Church UniversalChurch Of GodPersecutionchristianitypasttrying

Woe to you, you impious scribes and Pharisees! you traverse sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when you succeed you make him a son of Gehenna twice as bad as yourselves. Verse ConceptsExploitationsJudaismMission, Of IsraelPharisees, Beliefs OfPassing OverSonsTravelHypocrites, Description OfGehennaProselytesSea TravelOnly One PersonDouble PenaltyCrossing To The Other SideHypocrisy










But when they saw this, everyone began to mutter that he had gone to be the guest of a sinner. Verse ConceptsGuestsLonelinessHospitality Towards ChristWelcoming ChristGrumbling At PeopleReceiving Jesus As A GuestComplaintsComplaining

But the Pharisees and their scribes complained to his disciples, "Why do you eat and drink with taxgatherers and sinners?" Verse ConceptsFaultsComplaintsSectsStatusTax CollectorsMurmuringDisputesGrumbling At PeopleOpposition To Christ From ScribesFinding Fault With Jesus

Now the Jews murmured at him for saying, "I am the bread which has come down from heaven." They said, "Is this not Jesus the son of Joseph? We know his father and mother. How can he claim now, 'I have come down from heaven'?" Jesus replied to them, "Stop murmuring to yourselves.

The Jews then wrangled with one another, saying, "How can he give us his flesh to eat?" Verse ConceptsConfusionMisunderstood TruthEating Christ's BodyDiscussionsJesus As Food

But the Pharisees and their scribes complained to his disciples, "Why do you eat and drink with taxgatherers and sinners?" Verse ConceptsFaultsComplaintsSectsStatusTax CollectorsMurmuringDisputesGrumbling At PeopleOpposition To Christ From ScribesFinding Fault With Jesus


Some of the Pharisees said, "Why are you doing what is not allowed on the sabbath?" Verse ConceptsComplaintsConfrontationRitualLegalismDisputesPharisees Concerned About ChristThe Sabbath And Christ



"Then," you will retort, "why does he go on finding fault? Who can oppose his will?" But who are you, my man, to speak back to God? Is something a man has moulded to ask him who has moulded it, "Why did you make me like this?"






Now the high priests and the whole of the Sanhedrin tried to secure false evidence against Jesus, in order to have him put to death; Verse ConceptsChief priestsLeaders, SpiritualAttempts To Kill ChristSeeking For Abstract ThingsThe Chief Priests Condemning Christaccusations










While he was still speaking, there came a mob headed by the man called Judas, one of the twelve. He approached in order to kiss Jesus, Verse ConceptsCrowdsCrowds SeekingDrawing Near To ChristWhile Still SpeakingTwelve Disciplesserenityrelentless