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Thematic Bible





or anything else that can survive a refiner's fire: You are to pass it through fire, after which it will be clean. Then it is to be purified with the water of impurity. Everything that cannot survive a refiner's fire is to be washed in water.

He spread out a cloud for a cover, and fire for light at night. Verse ConceptsCoveringDivine ManifestationsLight, NaturalGod Appearing In Fireclouds

He led them with a cloud during the day, and during the night with light from the fire. Verse ConceptsDivine ManifestationsLight, NaturalHoly Spirit, Types OfProtection Day And NightGod Appearing In FireNavigation

As smoke is driven away, so you drive them away. As wax melts in the presence of fire, so the wicked die in the presence of God. Verse ConceptsSmokeWicked Described AsMeltingWaxDriven From God's PresenceThe Lord Will Drive Them OutThe Presence Of GodsmokinganniversarySmoke Used Poetically

just as fire sets twigs ablaze and the fire causes water to boil to make known your name to your enemies, yes, to your enemies before you, so that the nations might quake at your presence! Verse ConceptsTrembling

The livestock also cries out to you, because their water sources have evaporated and because fire has consumed the open pastures. Verse ConceptsdrynessWaters Drying UpBurning PlantsBrooks

He won't escape darkness; a flame will wither his shoots; and he'll depart by the breath of God's mouth. Verse ConceptsBreath Of GodFace Of GoddrynessMouthsPeople WitheredScorchingThe Outer DarknessEscaping EvilOuter Darkness


So Samson went out, caught 300 foxes, grabbed some torches, tied the foxes together in pairs at their tails, and fastened a torch between each pair of tails. Then he ignited the torches, set the foxes loose into the Philistines' unharvested grain, and burned up both the harvested shocks and the standing grain, along with their vineyards and olive groves.

Now, in the midst of the living beings there was something that appeared to glow like coals kindled by a fire, like torches that moved back and forth between the living beings. The fire was dazzling, and lightning flashed from the fire. Verse ConceptsAppearances of

Peter followed Jesus at a distance as far as the high priest's courtyard. He was sitting with the servants and warming himself at the fire. Verse ConceptsWarming

In the same way, the tongue is a small part of the body, yet it can boast of great achievements. A huge forest can be set on fire by a little flame. Verse ConceptsForestsA Time To SpeakSuperiorityTongueEcological ConcernsSpeaking, EvilArrogance, Characterizes The WickedBig ThingsSmall ThingsFire Of EvilBurning PlantsBeware Of Your SpeechThe Tongue

and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images that looked like mortal human beings, birds, four-footed animals, and reptiles. Verse ConceptsIncorruptibleImmortality, In NtNations DescribedBirds, Features OfNature DecayingNo DecayPeople Are CorruptibleIdolatryExchanging Good For BadNature Of IdolatryBirdscatsimage

You know that when you were unbelievers, you were enticed and led astray to worship idols that couldn't even speak. Verse ConceptsDumbnessMutenessPagansPolytheismCarrying IdolsDumbdiscriminationstatuesHinduism





Furthermore, because they did not think it worthwhile to keep knowing God fully, God delivered them to degraded minds to perform acts that should not be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, quarreling, deceit, and viciousness. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, haughty, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to their parents, read more.
foolish, faithless, heartless, and ruthless. Although they know God's just requirement that those who practice such things deserve to die they not only do these things but even applaud others who practice them.

because those nations that you are about to dispossess listen to those who practice witchcraft and divination. But the LORD does not allow you to act this way." Verse ConceptsDivination, Practiced ByAvoid SorceryGod ForbiddingSorcery

Has a nation ever changed gods when they aren't even gods? But my people have exchanged their glory for that which does not profit. Verse ConceptsNegotiationPolytheismExchanging Good For BadGod Bestowing GloryNo Help In Other Gods

So I said, "What you're doing isn't right! Shouldn't you live in the fear of our God to avoid shame from our foreign enemies? Verse ConceptsReproachFear God!


For whenever gentiles, who do not possess the Law, do instinctively what the Law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the Law. Verse ConceptsBeing Born In SinAtheism, Evidence AgainstForeigners Included In The LawWithout The LawGentilesDoing The Right ThingPositive ThinkingMoralitylawconscience

Sustain me with raisin cakes, refresh me with apples, for I'm weak with love. Verse ConceptsLove Towards Christ, The Nature Of

The king asked Ziba, "What are those for?" Ziba replied, "The donkeys are for the king's household to ride, the bread and summer fruit are for your young men to eat, and the wine is for whoever wants to drink if they get weary in the wilderness." Verse ConceptsSummerRiding DonkeysSummer FruitTired In Flight

A week later, when the king was under the influence of all that wine, he ordered Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven eunuchs who served King Ahasuerus, Verse ConceptsMerrinessChamberlainsSeven PeopleThe Seventh Day Of The WeekDay 7Drunk Individuals

Festivals are for laughter, wine makes life pleasant, and money speaks to everything. Verse ConceptsEffect Of WineMoney As ProtectionBeauty And Self WorthBeing Happy And Enjoying Lifeeverythingmakeupanswers

For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! Grain will make the young men thrive, and new wine the virgins. Verse ConceptsAlcoholAttractionEffect Of WineWomen's BeautyBeauty Of NatureThe Beauty Of Naturefruitfulness

But the grape vine asked them, "Should I leave my new wine, which cheers God and man, and go take dominion over trees?' Verse ConceptsAlcoholEffect Of WineHuman Comfort


A sword against her horses, against her chariots, and against all the foreign troops in her midst. They'll become women. A sword against her treasures. They'll be plundered. Verse ConceptsChariotsBabylonPowerlessnessMixed MultitudeEffeminacyDestroying ChariotsWeak Women

At that time, the Egyptians will be like women they will shudder and be afraid before the uplifted hand of the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, when he brandishes his hand against her. Verse ConceptsHand Of GodPowerlessnessEffeminacyGod's HandWaving The HandGroups TremblingWeak WomenTerror Of GodGod's Hands In Opposition

The warriors of Babylon have stopped fighting. They stay in their strongholds; their strength is dried up; they have become like women. Her buildings are set on fire; the bars of her gates are broken. Verse ConceptsGatesPowerlessnessEffeminacyCessationStopping FightingWeak WomenBurning CitiesNo Strength LeftWomen's Strength

Look at your people they are women! Your borders stand wide open to your enemies, while fire consumes the bars of your gates." Verse ConceptsFeeblenessPowerlessnessEffeminacyThe Act Of OpeningOpening GatesWeak WomenLocks And BarsWomen's Strength


With their own hands, compassionate women boil their own children they become their food when my beloved people were destroyed. Verse ConceptsCannibalismMotherhoodcookingtenderheartedness

I am in distress for you, my brother Jonathan. You have been most kind to me. Your love for me was extraordinary beyond love from women. Verse ConceptsGood FriendsTendernessUnhappinessValuesFriendship, Examples OfThose Who LovedWoman's PlaceFriendship And LoveLosing A FriendTrue FriendsheartbrokenThe Love Of Women


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