Thematic Bible: Characterized as
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Fire » Characterized as » Purifying
I advise you to buy of me gold that has been refined in the fire, so that you may become rich, and white clothes to put on, to hide your shameful nakedness, and salve to put on your eyes, to make you see.
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so that the genuineness of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even after it is shown by the test of fire to be genuine, may result in your praise and glory and honor at the unveiling of Jesus Christ.
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Fire » Characterized as » Enlightening
Fire » Characterized as » Melting
Fire » Characterized as » Drying
Fire » Characterized as » Insatiable
Fire » Characterized as » Consuming
Fire » Characterized as » Bright
Fire » Characterized as » Heating
And Peter followed Him at a distance, as far as the courtyard of the high priest; he was sitting with the attendants and warming himself before the fire.
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Fire » Characterized as » Spreading
So the tongue, too, is a little organ but can boast of great achievements. See how a spark, ever so tiny, can set a vast forest on fire!
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Gentiles » Characterized as » Idolatrous
and have transformed the splendor of the immortal God into images in the form of mortal man, birds, beasts, and reptiles.
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You know that when you were heathen you were in the habit of going off, wherever you might be led, after idols that could not speak.
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for they had utterly transformed the reality of God into what was unreal, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
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Gentiles » Characterized as » Ignorant of God
not out of evil passions as the heathen do who do not know God;
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because, although they once knew God, they did not honor Him as God, or give Him thanks, but became silly in their senseless speculations, and so their insensible hearts have been shrouded in darkness.
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Gentiles » Characterized as » Depraved and wicked
for in their recklessness they have abandoned themselves to sensuality which leads to excessive practices of all sorts of immorality.
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And so, as they did not approve of fully recognizing God any longer, God gave them up to minds that He did not approve, to practices that were improper; because they overflow with every sort of evil-doing, wickedness, greed, and malice; they are full of envy, murder, quarreling, deceit, ill-will; they are secret backbiters, open slanderers, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful; inventors of new forms of evil, undutiful to parents, read more.
conscienceless, treacherous, with no human love or pity. Although they know full well God's sentence that those who practice such things deserve to die, yet they not only practice them but even applaud others who do them.
conscienceless, treacherous, with no human love or pity. Although they know full well God's sentence that those who practice such things deserve to die, yet they not only practice them but even applaud others who do them.
Gentiles » Characterized as » Superstitious
Gentiles » Characterized as » Constant to their false gods
Gentiles » Characterized as » Blasphemous and reproachful
Gentiles » Characterized as » Refusing to know God
And so, as they did not approve of fully recognizing God any longer, God gave them up to minds that He did not approve, to practices that were improper;
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Gentiles » Characterized as » Without the law
Indeed, when heathen people who have no law instinctively do what the law demands, although they have no law, they are a law to themselves,
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Wine » Characterized as » Strengthening
Wine » Characterized as » Making mirthful
Wine » Characterized as » Cheering God and man
Wine » Characterized as » Gladdening the heart
Woman » Characterized as » Timid
Woman » Characterized as » Tender and constant to her offspring
Woman » Characterized as » Loving and affectionate
Woman » Characterized as » Weaker than man
You married men, in the same way, must live with your wives in an intelligent consideration of them; you must show them deference, too, as the weaker sex, as they share with you the gracious gift of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.
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