Thematic Bible: Characteristics of wicked servants:


Thematic Bible




Don’t work only while being watched, in order to please men, but as slaves of Christ, do God’s will from your heart. Verse ConceptsEyes, Figurative UseMen PleasersPleasing GodServants, BadPleasing MenPopularity SoughtSubmission To God's WillDoing God's WillWork As To ChristService


Don’t work only while being watched, in order to please men, but as slaves of Christ, do God’s will from your heart. Verse ConceptsEyes, Figurative UseMen PleasersPleasing GodServants, BadPleasing MenPopularity SoughtSubmission To God's WillDoing God's WillWork As To ChristService

My eyes [favor] the faithful of the land so that they may sit down with me. The one who follows the way of integrity may serve me. No one who acts deceitfully will live in my palace; no one who tells lies will remain in my presence.

“My lord the king,” he replied, “my servant Ziba betrayed me. Actually your servant said: ‘I’ll saddle the donkey for myself so that I may ride it and go with the king’—for your servant is lame. Verse ConceptsBackPreparing To TravelSaddling DonkeysThose Who Deceived

But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen and said, “The water is ours!” So he named the well Quarrel because they quarreled with him. Verse ConceptsServants, BadDishonesty, Examples OfPeople Possessing Other ThingsPeople Naming ThingsStock Keeping

and there was quarreling between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the land. Verse ConceptsLivestockServants, BadStock KeepingResolving Conflict

Gehazi said, “It’s all right. My master has sent me to say, ‘I have just now discovered that two young men from the sons of the prophets have come to me from the hill country of Ephraim. Please give them 75 pounds of silver and two changes of clothes.’” Verse ConceptsExamples Of DeceitHillsLying, Examples OfPeople Giving ClothesSons Of The ProphetsTwo Other ThingsTwo Other Men

Gehazi came and stood by his master. “Where did you go, Gehazi?” Elisha asked him.

“Your servant didn’t go anywhere,” he replied. Verse ConceptsAmbiguityMotionlessnessStaying PutWhere From?

The earth trembles under three things; it cannot bear up under four: a servant when he becomes king, a fool when he is stuffed with food,

A slave cannot be disciplined by words;
though he understands, he doesn’t respond.
Verse ConceptsResponseServanthood, In SocietyServants, BadMere Talk

But he wasn’t willing. On the contrary, he went and threw him into prison until he could pay what was owed. Verse ConceptsImprisonmentsPrisonersPitilessnessPitilessness CondemnedSettling AccountsDebtjail

and starts to beat his fellow slaves, and eats and drinks with drunkards, Verse ConceptsGluttonydrinking, abstention fromEating And Drinkingdrunkards

that slave’s master will come on a day he does not expect and at an hour he does not know. Verse ConceptsIgnorance Of Christ’s ReturnLack Of ExpectationThe Time UnknownThe Second Coming

Gehazi, the attendant of Elisha the man of God, thought: My master has let this Aramean Naaman off lightly by not accepting from him what he brought. As the Lord lives, I will run after him and get something from him. Verse ConceptsLove, Abuse OfIndividuals RunningExemptGreedservanthood

or stealing, but demonstrating utter faithfulness, so that they may adorn the teaching of God our Savior in everything. Verse ConceptsAdornment, Of WomenApplying The BibleAttractionSound DoctrineDo Not StealInternal Adornmentartistsdoctrine

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