Thematic Bible: Condemned


Thematic Bible



Your chiefs have gone against the Lord, they have become friends of thieves; every one of them is looking for profit and going after rewards; they do not give right decisions for the child who has no father, and they do not let the cause of the widow come before them. Verse ConceptsGiftsBribery, Results OfExploitationsWicked RulersOppression, Nature OfOrphansReward, HumanRiches, Dangers OfRulersStealingLeadershipRulers, WickedCovetousness, Example OfEvil AssociationsCompanionshipNot Helping Widows

Take no rewards in a cause: for rewards make blind those who have eyes to see, and make the decisions of the upright false. Verse ConceptsBribery, Results OfBribery, Is Sinethics, socialAcceptance Of BribesMoney, Stewardship OfRighteous, TheMagistratesEffect Of BribesAvoiding BribesBlindingOther BlindingBribery

In whose hands are evil designs, and whose right hands take money for judging falsely. Verse ConceptsBribery, Results OfInjustice, Examples OfEffect Of BribesEvil For The Right HandBribery

A sinner takes an offering out of his robe, to get a decision for himself in a cause. Verse ConceptsBribery, Results OfAcceptance Of BribesSecrecyEffect Of Bribes

Who for a reward give support to the cause of the sinner, and who take away the righteousness of the upright from him. Verse ConceptsAcquittalGuiltAcquitting The Guilty

He whose ways are true, and whose words are upright; he who gives no thought to the profits of false acts, whose hands have not taken rewards, who will have no part in putting men to death, and whose eyes are shut against evil; Verse ConceptsAcceptance Of BribesEyes, GuardedBeing FairFinancial AdviceAvoiding Bribes

For I have seen how your evil-doing is increased and how strong are your sins, you troublers of the upright, who take rewards and do wrong to the cause of the poor in the public place. Verse ConceptsGod, All knowingCruelty, examples ofBribery, Results OfInjustice, Examples OfOffenceGod's Knowledge Of PeopleRighteous, TheRighteousness, Of BelieversSin, And God's CharacterExposure Of SinBusiness At The GatewayNot Helping The Pooroppression





A poor thing, a poor thing, says he who is giving money for goods: but when he has gone on his way, then he makes clear his pride in what he has got. Verse ConceptsDishonesty, Kinds OfBuying and sellingNegotiationDishonesty CondemnedWorthLosing FriendsValuecheaterssales




A curse is on him who is building his house by wrongdoing, and his rooms by doing what is not right; who makes use of his neighbour without payment, and gives him nothing for his work; Verse ConceptsDishonesty, Kinds OfInjustice, Nature And Source OfLeaders, PoliticalMastersRiches, Dangers OfServants, Working Conditions OfWagesUnjust GainDishonesty CondemnedEmployersPresumptuous PlansWoe To The WickedInjustice





A poor thing, a poor thing, says he who is giving money for goods: but when he has gone on his way, then he makes clear his pride in what he has got. Verse ConceptsDishonesty, Kinds OfBuying and sellingNegotiationDishonesty CondemnedWorthLosing FriendsValuecheaterssales




A curse is on him who is building his house by wrongdoing, and his rooms by doing what is not right; who makes use of his neighbour without payment, and gives him nothing for his work; Verse ConceptsDishonesty, Kinds OfInjustice, Nature And Source OfLeaders, PoliticalMastersRiches, Dangers OfServants, Working Conditions OfWagesUnjust GainDishonesty CondemnedEmployersPresumptuous PlansWoe To The WickedInjustice

And no one takes note, no one has enough knowledge or wisdom to say, I have put part of it in the fire, and made bread on it; I have had a meal of the flesh cooked with it: and am I now to make the rest of it into a false god? am I to go down on my face before a bit of wood? Verse ConceptsAbominationsAbominations, Idolatry IsIgnorance Towards God, Leads ToDullnessBowing To False GodsBaking BreadFirewoodHalf Of ThingsThose Who Were Ignorant

Son of man, you are living among an uncontrolled people, who have eyes to see but see not, and ears for hearing but they do not give ear; for they are an uncontrolled people. Verse ConceptsSpiritual Blindness, In UnbelieversLack Of DiscernmentHearingIndifferenceSensitivityApathyDullnessSpiritual DeafnessNot Seeing Spiritual ThingsUnhearingrebellion


O false ones! the face of the earth and the heaven is clear to you; how is it that the signs of these times are not as clear to you? Verse ConceptsDullnessThe Present AgeAppearances ofHypocritesHypocrisyDiscernmentSigns Of The End TimesEnd TimesWeather In The Last DaysSeasons Changingweather





Happy is the man in whom is the fear of the Lord at all times; but he whose heart is hard will come into trouble. Verse ConceptsFreedom, Of The WillHardness Of HeartIrreverenceStubbornness, Consequences OfFear Of God, Results OfObstinacy Against GodStiffnecked PeopleObstinate Individuals


For this reason he let loose on him the heat of his wrath, and his strength was like a flame; and it put fire round about him, but he did not see it; he was burned, but did not take it to heart. Verse ConceptsHardened HeartsHeart, Fallen And RedeemedChastisementSensitivityInsensibilityBurning PeopleStrength In Battle


Let not your hearts be hard, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the waste land; Verse ConceptsFreedom, Of The WillTestingInsensitivityAvoiding Obstinacy

He who says that he is in the light, and has hate in his heart for his brother, is still in the dark. Verse ConceptsDarkness, As A Symbol Of SinBullyingLove To Others, Evidence OfLight And DarknessDarkness Of EvilMere TalkDarknessSibling Love

Anyone who has hate for his brother is a taker of life, and you may be certain that no taker of life has eternal life in him. Verse ConceptsHatredBullyingAccepting OthersNot Maintaining LifeJudged As MurderersEternal lifeHateForgiving Others Who Hurt YouSibling Lovehaters



If a man says, I have love for God, and has hate for his brother, his words are false: for how is the man who has no love for his brother whom he has seen, able to have love for God whom he has not seen? Verse ConceptsLiesLoveHatredLove To Others, Evidence OfNot Seeing GodNot Loving GodSeeing PeopleThose Who Are LiarsUnlovingBrotherhood Of ManLove to ChristLoving YourselfHateSiblingsGod's Love For UsLove And FamilyTrue LoveBeing LovedLoving One AnotherBrothers LoveThose Loving GodSibling Loveloving

Let there be no hate in your heart for your brother; but you may make a protest to your neighbour, so that he may be stopped from doing evil. Verse ConceptsAngerConfrontationChallengesIncurring GuiltParticipation, In SinRebukeLove To Others Shown InDuties To NeighboursReproving PeopleGuiltSibling Love

See that all the people of the land are forced out from before you, and put to destruction all their pictured stones, and all their metal images, and all their high places: Verse ConceptsHigh PlacesShrinesGoldsmithsDestruction Of Satan's Works

For the outcry he made by the word of the Lord against the altar in Beth-el and against all the houses of the high places in the towns of Samaria, will certainly come about. Verse ConceptsShrinesMan's Words Fulfilled

And they have put up the high place of Topheth in the valley of the son of Hinnom, burning their sons and their daughters there in the fire; a thing which was not ordered by me and never came into my mind. Verse ConceptsGod, Human Descriptions OfBalaams DonkeyFalse GodsChild sacrificeAbsence Of ThoughtShrines

For he took away the altars of strange gods and the high places, and had the upright stones broken and the wood pillars cut down; Verse ConceptsHigh PlacesShrinesDestruction Of Satan's WorksObelisks

And I will send destruction on your high places, overturning your perfume altars, and will put your dead bodies on your broken images, and my soul will be turned from you in disgust. Verse ConceptsHigh PlacesDestruction Of Satan's WorksInadequate BurialsNo IncenseFate Of IdolatersGod Hating People

Be upright in judging the cause of the man from a strange country and of him who has no father; do not take a widow's clothing on account of a debt: Verse ConceptsForeignersethics, socialSocial JusticeOppression, Nature OfOrphansPledgesWidowsWidows, Should Not BeAliens, Believers DutyOppressing ForeignersInstruction About ClothesLaws About PledgesAliens

You are not to be moved in your judging by a man's position, you are not to take rewards; for rewards make the eyes of the wise man blind, and the decisions of the upright false. Verse ConceptsFavouritismBlindness, SymbolicInjustice, Hated By GodReward, HumanRighteous, TheMagistratesAvoiding BribesBlindingOther Blinding


An evil man is disgusting to the upright, and he who is upright is disgusting to evil-doers. Verse ConceptsAbominationsHating EvilHating The RighteousHate

It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to take wine, or for rulers to say, Where is strong drink? For fear that through drinking they may come to have no respect for the law, wrongly judging the cause of those who are in trouble.

And again, I saw under the sun, in the place of the judges, that evil was there; and in the place of righteousness, that evil was there. Verse ConceptsUnder The SunInjusticeSunfairnesswickedness



But now it is right for you to put away all these things; wrath, passion, bad feeling, curses, unclean talk; Verse ConceptsAngerBackbitingAggressionGrudgesSpiteVulgarityConversationMaliceSlanderCursingCrude LanguageAnger ManagementLanguageEmotionsAbuseSpeechjoking

Let us then keep the feast, not with old leaven, and not with the leaven of evil thoughts and acts, but with the unleavened bread of true thoughts and right feelings. Verse ConceptsDeceit, Practice OfDeception, Christians Must Not PracticeHonestySpiteSincereityLeavenedGod's Truthnot celebrating christmasthe anniversary FeastsSexual Puritycelebrating



What protest may a living man make, even a man about the punishment of his sin? Verse ConceptsAfflicted SaintsResentment, Against GodComplaintsComplaining

Those whose hearts were turned away from him will get knowledge, and those who made an outcry against him will give attention to his teaching. Verse ConceptsFolly, Effects OfUnderstandingAcceptance, Of InstructionDo Not GrumbleComplainingcriticismdoctrine


Jesus made answer and said, Do not say things against me, one to another. Verse ConceptsMurmuringGrumblingDo Not Grumble

And do not say evil things against the Lord, as some of them did, and destruction overtook them. Verse ConceptsCriticism, amongst believersResentment, Against GodUnbelieversMurmuringDiscontentGrumblingThe DestroyerDo Not GrumbleComplaining


But they took pleasure in my trouble, and came together, yes, low persons came together against me without my knowledge; they never came to an end of wounding me. Verse ConceptsUnkindnessCharacter Of WickedPitilessnessPitilessness CondemnedPeople StumblingNot Knowing PeopleRejoicing In Evil

The child without a father is forced from its mother's breast, and they take the young children of the poor for debt. Verse ConceptsBreasts, Nursing MothersDebtorsPitilessnessPitilessness CondemnedNot Helping The PoorTaking Other PeopleMotherhoodPurgatorybaby

And in the same way, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, went by on the other side. Verse ConceptsOccupationsPassing ByHeartlessnessPitilessnessPitilessness Condemned


These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Edom, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because his sword was turned against his brother, without pity, and his wrath was burning at all times, and he was angry for ever. Verse ConceptsTemperUnkindnessAbominations, Judgments OfPitilessnessPitilessness CondemnedHatred Between RelativesThree Or FourEternal JudgementPeople Without Mercyrelentless

And he would not: but went and put him into prison till he had made payment of the debt. Verse ConceptsImprisonmentsPrisonersPitilessnessPitilessness CondemnedSettling AccountsDebtjail


A man of wealth who is cruel to the poor is like a violent rain causing destruction of food. Verse ConceptsRich, ThePitilessnessPitilessness CondemnedNot Helping The Poor

See that all the people of the land are forced out from before you, and put to destruction all their pictured stones, and all their metal images, and all their high places: Verse ConceptsHigh PlacesShrinesGoldsmithsDestruction Of Satan's Works

For the outcry he made by the word of the Lord against the altar in Beth-el and against all the houses of the high places in the towns of Samaria, will certainly come about. Verse ConceptsShrinesMan's Words Fulfilled

And they have put up the high place of Topheth in the valley of the son of Hinnom, burning their sons and their daughters there in the fire; a thing which was not ordered by me and never came into my mind. Verse ConceptsGod, Human Descriptions OfBalaams DonkeyFalse GodsChild sacrificeAbsence Of ThoughtShrines

For he took away the altars of strange gods and the high places, and had the upright stones broken and the wood pillars cut down; Verse ConceptsHigh PlacesShrinesDestruction Of Satan's WorksObelisks

And I will send destruction on your high places, overturning your perfume altars, and will put your dead bodies on your broken images, and my soul will be turned from you in disgust. Verse ConceptsHigh PlacesDestruction Of Satan's WorksInadequate BurialsNo IncenseFate Of IdolatersGod Hating People

What? have you not houses to take your meals in? or have you no respect for the church of God, putting the poor to shame? What am I to say to you? am I to give you praise? certainly not. Verse ConceptsSacrilegeLiving In HousesShaming PeopleEating And DrinkingNot Helping The PoorThe Church UniversalAlcoholic BeveragesChurch Of GodGoing To Churchcommunion

And as for anyone who takes it for food, his sin will be on him, for he has put shame on the holy thing of the Lord: he will be cut off from his people. Verse ConceptsProfanitySacrilegeThose To Be Cut Off From Israel

And no sin will be yours on account of it, when the best of it has been lifted up on high; you are not to make a wrong use of the holy things of the children of Israel, so that death may not overtake you. Verse ConceptsSacrilegeDeath Due To God's PresenceNot Guilty

You who say that a man may not be untrue to his wife, are you true to yours? you who are a hater of images, do you do wrong to the house of God? Verse ConceptsChastitySacrilegeHating EvilNature Of IdolatryRobbing GodsThose Who Committed AdulteryInfidelityadultry

Your chiefs have gone against the Lord, they have become friends of thieves; every one of them is looking for profit and going after rewards; they do not give right decisions for the child who has no father, and they do not let the cause of the widow come before them. Verse ConceptsGiftsBribery, Results OfExploitationsWicked RulersOppression, Nature OfOrphansReward, HumanRiches, Dangers OfRulersStealingLeadershipRulers, WickedCovetousness, Example OfEvil AssociationsCompanionshipNot Helping Widows

Take no rewards in a cause: for rewards make blind those who have eyes to see, and make the decisions of the upright false. Verse ConceptsBribery, Results OfBribery, Is Sinethics, socialAcceptance Of BribesMoney, Stewardship OfRighteous, TheMagistratesEffect Of BribesAvoiding BribesBlindingOther BlindingBribery

In whose hands are evil designs, and whose right hands take money for judging falsely. Verse ConceptsBribery, Results OfInjustice, Examples OfEffect Of BribesEvil For The Right HandBribery

A sinner takes an offering out of his robe, to get a decision for himself in a cause. Verse ConceptsBribery, Results OfAcceptance Of BribesSecrecyEffect Of Bribes

Who for a reward give support to the cause of the sinner, and who take away the righteousness of the upright from him. Verse ConceptsAcquittalGuiltAcquitting The Guilty

He whose ways are true, and whose words are upright; he who gives no thought to the profits of false acts, whose hands have not taken rewards, who will have no part in putting men to death, and whose eyes are shut against evil; Verse ConceptsAcceptance Of BribesEyes, GuardedBeing FairFinancial AdviceAvoiding Bribes

For I have seen how your evil-doing is increased and how strong are your sins, you troublers of the upright, who take rewards and do wrong to the cause of the poor in the public place. Verse ConceptsGod, All knowingCruelty, examples ofBribery, Results OfInjustice, Examples OfOffenceGod's Knowledge Of PeopleRighteous, TheRighteousness, Of BelieversSin, And God's CharacterExposure Of SinBusiness At The GatewayNot Helping The Pooroppression


But it is my desire for you to be free from cares. The unmarried man gives his mind to the things of the Lord, how he may give pleasure to the Lord: Verse ConceptsCare, WorldlyCelibacyLibertyPriorityUnrestDo Not Be AnxiousUnmarriedNot WorryingAnxiety And FearWorryingFocusBeing Singledistractionsfreeworriesanxious


And when they take you before the Synagogues and the authorities and the rulers, take no thought about what answers you will give, or what you will say: Verse ConceptsJesus Statements About The SpiritRulersSynagogueHoly Spirit, Personhood OfMagistratesUnrestDo Not Be AnxiousNot WorryingAnxiety And FearFear And WorryWorryingTrusting God And Not Worryinganswersworriesanxious






A poor thing, a poor thing, says he who is giving money for goods: but when he has gone on his way, then he makes clear his pride in what he has got. Verse ConceptsDishonesty, Kinds OfBuying and sellingNegotiationDishonesty CondemnedWorthLosing FriendsValuecheaterssales




A curse is on him who is building his house by wrongdoing, and his rooms by doing what is not right; who makes use of his neighbour without payment, and gives him nothing for his work; Verse ConceptsDishonesty, Kinds OfInjustice, Nature And Source OfLeaders, PoliticalMastersRiches, Dangers OfServants, Working Conditions OfWagesUnjust GainDishonesty CondemnedEmployersPresumptuous PlansWoe To The WickedInjustice

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