Thematic Bible: Characteristics of wicked servants:
Thematic Bible
Servants » Characteristics of wicked servants: » Eye-servants
Servants, be obedient unto your bodily masters in all things: not with eye service as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart fearing God.
not with service in the eyesight, as men-pleasers: but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart
Servants » Characteristics of wicked servants: » Men-pleasers
Servants, be obedient unto your bodily masters in all things: not with eye service as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart fearing God.
not with service in the eyesight, as men-pleasers: but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart
Servants » Characteristics of wicked servants: » Deceit
Mine eyes shall look for such as be faithful in the land, that they may dwell with me. Whoso leadeth a godly life, he shall be my servant. There shall no deceitful person dwell in my house; he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.
And he said, "My lord king, my servant deceived me. For thy servant said: that I would have mine ass saddled to ride thereon, for to go to the king, because thy servant is lame.
Servants » Characteristics of wicked servants: » Quarrelsomeness
And the herdsmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, "The water is ours." Then called he the well Esek, because they strove with him.
And there fell a strife between the herdsmen of Abram's cattle, and the herdsmen of Lot's cattle. Moreover, the Canaanites and the Perizzites dwelled at that time in the land.
Servants » Characteristics of wicked servants: » Lying
And he said, "Yea. But my master hath sent me, saying, 'See, there be two young men come to me out of Ephraim of the children of the prophets: give them, I pray thee, one talent of silver and a couple of good garments."
Then he went and stood before his master. And Elisha said to him, "Whence cometh Gehazi?" And he said, "Thy servant went no whither."
Servants » Characteristics of wicked servants: » Do not bear to be exalted
Through three things the earth is disquieted, and the fourth may it not bear: through a servant that beareth rule, through a fool that hath great riches,
Servants » Characteristics of wicked servants: » Will not submit to correction
A servant will not be the better for words; for though he understand, yet will he not regard them.
Servants » Characteristics of wicked servants: » Unmerciful to their fellows
And he would not, but went and cast him into prison, till he should pay the debt.
Servants » Characteristics of wicked servants: » Gluttony, &c
and begin to smite his fellows: yea and to eat and to drink with the drunken:
Servants » Characteristics of wicked servants: » Shall be punished
that servant's master will come in a day when he looketh not for him: and in a hour that he is not aware of,
Servants » Characteristics of wicked servants: » Covetousness
And when he was departed from him a furlong of ground, Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, "Behold, my master hath spared Naaman, this Syrian, so that he hath not taken from him that which he brought! As surely as the LORD liveth, I will run after him and take somewhat."
Servants » Characteristics of wicked servants: » Stealing
neither be pickers, but that they show all good faithfulness, that they may do worship to the doctrine of God our saviour in all things.