Thematic Bible: Characterized as
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Fire » Characterized as » Purifying
so that the genuineness of your faith—more valuable than gold, which perishes though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
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everything that can withstand fire—you are to pass through fire, and it will be clean. It must still be purified with the purification water. Anything that cannot withstand fire, pass through the water.
Fire » Characterized as » Enlightening
and gave a fire to light up the night.
and with a fiery light throughout the night.
Fire » Characterized as » Melting
so You blow them away.
As wax melts before the fire,
so the wicked are destroyed before God.
and fire causes water to boil—
to make Your name known to Your enemies,
so that nations will tremble at Your presence!
Fire » Characterized as » Drying
for the river beds are dried up,
and fire has consumed
the pastures of the wilderness.
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flames will wither his shoots,
and by the breath of God’s mouth, he will depart.
Fire » Characterized as » Insatiable
earth, which is never satisfied with water;
and fire, which never says, “Enough!”
Fire » Characterized as » Consuming
So he went out and caught 300 foxes. He took torches, turned the foxes tail-to-tail, and put a torch between each pair of tails. Then he ignited the torches and released the foxes into the standing grain of the Philistines. He burned up the piles of grain and the standing grain as well as the vineyards and olive groves.
Fire » Characterized as » Bright
The form of the living creatures was like the appearance of burning coals of fire and torches. Fire was moving back and forth between the living creatures; it was bright, with lightning coming out of it.
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Fire » Characterized as » Heating
Peter followed Him at a distance, right into the high priest’s courtyard. He was sitting with the temple police, warming himself by the fire.
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Fire » Characterized as » Spreading
So too, though the tongue is a small part of the body, it boasts great things. Consider how large a forest a small fire ignites.
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Gentiles » Characterized as » Idolatrous
and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man, birds, four-footed animals, and reptiles.
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You know that when you were pagans, you used to be led off to the idols that could not speak.
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They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served something created instead of the Creator, who is praised forever. Amen.
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Gentiles » Characterized as » Ignorant of God
not with lustful desires, like the Gentiles who don’t know God.
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For though they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God or show gratitude. Instead, their thinking became nonsense, and their senseless minds were darkened.
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Gentiles » Characterized as » Depraved and wicked
They became callous and gave themselves over to promiscuity for the practice of every kind of impurity with a desire for more and more.
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And because they did not think it worthwhile to have God in their knowledge, God delivered them over to a worthless mind to do what is morally wrong. They are filled with all unrighteousness, evil, greed, and wickedness. They are full of envy, murder, disputes, deceit, and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, arrogant, proud, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, read more.
undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, and unmerciful. Although they know full well God's just sentence-that those who practice such things deserve to die-they not only do them, but even applaud others who practice them.
undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, and unmerciful. Although they know full well God's just sentence-that those who practice such things deserve to die-they not only do them, but even applaud others who practice them.
Gentiles » Characterized as » Superstitious
Though these nations you are about to drive out listen to fortune-tellers and diviners, the Lord your God has not permitted you to do this.
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Gentiles » Characterized as » Constant to their false gods
(But they were not gods!
Yet My people have exchanged their
for useless idols.
Gentiles » Characterized as » Blasphemous and reproachful
Then I said, “What you are doing isn’t right. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God and not invite the reproach of our foreign enemies?
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Gentiles » Characterized as » Refusing to know God
And because they did not think it worthwhile to acknowledge God, God delivered them over to a worthless mind to do what is morally wrong.
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Gentiles » Characterized as » Without the law
So, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, instinctively do what the law demands, they are a law to themselves even though they do not have the law.
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Wine » Characterized as » Strengthening
refresh me with apricots,
for I am lovesick.
The king said to Ziba, “Why do you have these?”
Ziba answered, “The donkeys are for the king’s household to ride, the bread and summer fruit are for the young men to eat, and the wine is for those to drink who become exhausted in the desert.” Verse Concepts
Ziba answered, “The donkeys are for the king’s household to ride, the bread and summer fruit are for the young men to eat, and the wine is for those to drink who become exhausted in the desert.” Verse Concepts
Wine » Characterized as » Making mirthful
On the seventh day, when the king was feeling good from the wine, Ahasuerus commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar, and Carkas, the seven eunuchs who personally served him,
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and wine makes life happy,
and money is the answer for everything.
Wine » Characterized as » Cheering God and man
Grain will make the young men flourish,
and new wine, the young women.
“Should I stop giving my wine
that cheers both God and man,
and rule
Wine » Characterized as » Gladdening the heart
making his face shine with oil—
and bread that sustains man’s heart.
Woman » Characterized as » Timid
and against all the foreigners among them,
and they will be like women.
A sword is against her treasuries,
and they will be plundered.
On that day Egypt will be like women. She will tremble with fear because of the threatening hand of the Lord of Hosts when He raises it against her.
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they sit in their strongholds.
Their might is exhausted;
they have become like women.
Babylon’s homes have been set ablaze,
her gate bars are shattered.
the gates of your land
are wide open to your enemies.
Fire will devour the bars of your gates.
Woman » Characterized as » Tender and constant to her offspring
or lack compassion for the child of her womb?
Even if these forget,
yet I will not forget you.
י YodThe hands of compassionate women
have cooked their own children;
they became their food
during the destruction of my dear people.
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have cooked their own children;
they became their food
during the destruction of my dear people.
Woman » Characterized as » Loving and affectionate
You were such a friend to me.
Your love for me was more wonderful
than the love of women.
Woman » Characterized as » Weaker than man
Husbands, in the same way, live with your wives with an understanding of their weaker nature yet showing them honor as coheirs of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.
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