Thematic Bible: Characterized as
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Fire » Characterized as » Purifying
Therefore I counsel you to buy of Me gold refined in the fire that you may become rich, and white robes to put on, so as to hide your shameful nakedness, and eye-salve to anoint your eyes with, so that you may be able to see.
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The sorrow comes in order that the testing of your faith--being more precious than that of gold, which perishes and yet is proved by fire--may be found to result in praise and glory and honour at the re-appearing 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
Peter followed Jesus at a distance, as far as the outer court of the High Priest's palace. But there he remained sitting among the officers, and warming himself by the fire.
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Fire » Characterized as » Spreading
In the same way the tongue is an insignificant part of the body, but it is immensely boastful. Remember how a mere spark may set a vast forest in flames.
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Gentiles » Characterized as » Idolatrous
and, instead of worshipping the imperishable God, they worshipped images resembling perishable man or resembling birds or beasts or reptiles.
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You know that when you were heathens you went astray after dumb idols, wherever you happened to be led.
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For they had bartered the reality of God for what is unreal, and had offered divine honours and religious service to created things, rather than to the Creator--He who is for ever blessed. Amen.
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Gentiles » Characterized as » Ignorant of God
that you be not overmastered by lustful cravings, like the Gentiles who have no knowledge of God;
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For when they had come to know God, they did not give Him glory as God nor render Him thanks, but they became absorbed in useless discussions, and their senseless minds were darkened.
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Gentiles » Characterized as » Depraved and wicked
Such men being past feeling have abandoned themselves to impurity, greedily indulging in every kind of profligacy.
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And just as they had refused to continue to have a full knowledge of God, so it was to utterly worthless minds that God gave them up, for them to do things which should not be done. Their hearts overflowed with all sorts of dishonesty, mischief, greed, malice. They were full of envy and murder, and were quarrelsome, crafty, and spiteful. They were secret backbiters, open slanderers; hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful; inventors of new forms of sin, disobedient to parents, destitute of common sense, read more.
faithless to their promises, without natural affection, without human pity. In short, though knowing full well the sentence which God pronounces against actions such as theirs, as things which deserve death, they not only practise them, but even encourage and applaud others who do them.
faithless to their promises, without natural affection, without human pity. In short, though knowing full well the sentence which God pronounces against actions such as theirs, as things which deserve death, they not only practise them, but even encourage and 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 just as they had refused to continue to have a full knowledge of God, so it was to utterly worthless minds that God gave them up, for them to do things which should not be done.
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Gentiles » Characterized as » Without the law
For when Gentiles who have no Law obey by natural instinct the commands of the Law, they, without having a Law, 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
Married men, in the same way, live with your wives with a clear recognition of the fact that they are weaker than you. Yet, since you are heirs with them of God's free gift of Life, treat them with honour; so that your prayers may not be hindered.
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