Thematic Bible: Condemned
Thematic Bible
Bribery » Condemned
Your princes [are] rebels and companions of thieves. Every one loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not defend [the] orphan and [the] legal dispute of [the] widow does not come before them.
And you will not take a bribe, because the bribe makes [the] sighted blind and ruins [the] words of [the] righteous.
in whose hands [is] an evil plan, and whose right hand is full of bribes.
The wicked will accept a bribe from the lap, [in order] to pervert the ways of justice.
Those who acquit the guilty because of a bribe and remove [the] justice of [the] innocent from him.
He who walks [in] righteousness and speaks uprightness, who rejects [the] gain of extortion, who {refuses} bribe, who stops up his ears from hearing {bloodshed} and shuts his eyes from seeing evil.
For I know your transgressions [are] many and your sins [are] numerous, [you] foes of [the] righteous, those who take a bribe, and {those who} push aside [the] poor [ones] in the gate!
Business life » Dishonesty » Condemned
Balances of deceit [are] an abomination of Yahweh, but {an accurate weight} delights him.
[The] trader, in his hand [are] scales of deceit; he loves to oppress.
Shall I regard as pure [the one] with scales of wickedness, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
[Like] a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay [is] one who amasses wealth without justice. In the middle of his days it will leave him, and at his end he will [prove to] be a fool."
"Bad, bad," the buyer will say, but [when] one goes to him, then he will boast.
"There shall not be {for your use} in your bag {two kinds of stone weights, a large one and a small one}.
Stone and stone, measure and measure, {both of them} [are] an abomination of Yahweh.
He who makes treasure by a lying tongue [is a] fleeting vapor [and] seeker of death.
Woe [to the one who] builds his house without righteousness, and his upper rooms without justice. His fellow countryman, he works for nothing, and he does not give to him his wages.
Dishonesty » Condemned
Balances of deceit [are] an abomination of Yahweh, but {an accurate weight} delights him.
[The] trader, in his hand [are] scales of deceit; he loves to oppress.
Shall I regard as pure [the one] with scales of wickedness, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
[Like] a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay [is] one who amasses wealth without justice. In the middle of his days it will leave him, and at his end he will [prove to] be a fool."
"Bad, bad," the buyer will say, but [when] one goes to him, then he will boast.
"There shall not be {for your use} in your bag {two kinds of stone weights, a large one and a small one}.
Stone and stone, measure and measure, {both of them} [are] an abomination of Yahweh.
He who makes treasure by a lying tongue [is a] fleeting vapor [and] seeker of death.
Woe [to the one who] builds his house without righteousness, and his upper rooms without justice. His fellow countryman, he works for nothing, and he does not give to him his wages.
Dullness » Condemned
And {no one takes it to heart}, and [there is] no knowledge and no understanding to say, "I burned half of it in [the] fire and also I baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat, and I have eaten. And I shall make [the] rest of it into an abomination! I shall bow down to a block of wood!"
"Son of man, you [are] dwelling in the midst of the house of rebellion {who has eyes to see and they do not see}; {they have ears to hear}, and they do not hear, for they [are] a house of rebellion.
[The] brutish man does not know, and [the] fool cannot understand this.
Hypocrites! You know how to evaluate the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how [is it] you do not know how to evaluate this present time?
{Why} do you not understand my way of speaking? Because you are not able to listen to my message.
[there] is no one who understands; [there] is no one who seeks God.
Concerning this {we have much to say and it is difficult to explain}, since you have become sluggish in hearing.
Hardness (of heart) » Condemned
But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart, you are storing up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God,
Happy is the person who fears continuously, but he who is stubborn of heart, will fall into calamity.
A man who is reproved, being stubborn of neck-- suddenly he will be broken, and there will not be healing.
So he poured [the] wrath [of] his anger upon him and [the] strength of war. And it set him afire all around, but he did not understand; and it burned him, but he did not take [it] to heart.
But encourage one another {day by day}, as long as it is called "today," so that {none of you become hardened} by the deception of sin.
"Do not harden your heart as [at] Meribah, as [in] the day of Massah in the wilderness,
Hatred » Condemned
The one who says [he] is in the light and hates his brother is in the darkness until now.
Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that every murderer does not have eternal life residing in him.
Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers over all offenses.
Better [is] a dinner of vegetables when love [is] there than a fattened ox and hatred with it.
If anyone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar, for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen is not able to love God whom he has not seen.
" 'You shall not hate your brother in your heart; you shall surely rebuke your fellow citizen, so that you do not incur sin {along with} him.
High places » Condemned
you will drive out the inhabitants of the land from your presence, and you will destroy all their idols and all the images of their molten idols, and you will demolish all their high places;
For surely, the thing which he proclaimed by the word of Yahweh against the altar which [is] in Bethel will happen, [as it will] against all the houses of the high places which [are] in the cities of Samaria."
And they built the high place of Topheth, which [is] in [the] Valley of Ben Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I have not commanded, and it did not come into my mind.
He removed the foreign altars and high places, broke down the stone pillars, and cut down the Asherahs.
And I will destroy your high places, and I will cut down your incense altars, and I will place your corpses on your idols' corpses; and my inner self shall abhor you.
Injustice » Condemned
You shall not subvert the rights of an alien [or] an orphan, and you shall not take as pledge [the] garment of a widow.
You shall not subvert justice; you shall not {show partiality}; and you shall not take a bribe, for the bribe makes blind [the] eyes of [the] wise and misrepresents [the] words of [the] righteous.
"How long will you judge unjustly and {show favoritism to the wicked}? Selah
A man of injustice is an abomination to the righteous, but the {upright} is an abomination to the wicked.
[It is] not for the kings, O Lemuel; drinking wine [is] not for the kings, nor [is] strong drink for rulers. Or else he will drink and forget what has been decreed, and he will pervert the rights of all the {afflicted}.
I saw something else under the sun: instead of justice [there was] evil; instead of righteousness [there was] wickedness.
"The one who [is] faithful in very little is also faithful in much, and the one who [is] dishonest in very little is also dishonest in much.
Malice » Condemned
All bitterness, and rage, and wrath, and clamor, and abusive speech, must be removed from you, together with all wickedness.
But now you also lay aside all [these] things: anger, rage, wickedness, slander, abusive language from your mouth.
So then, let us celebrate the feast, not with the old leaven or with the leaven of wickedness and sinfulness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Brothers, do not become children in [your] understanding, but with respect to wickedness be as a child, and in [your] understanding be mature.
Therefore, ridding yourselves of all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander,
Murmuring » Condemned
And those who err [in] spirit will {acquire} understanding, and those who grumble will learn instruction.
As for the folly of humankind, its way leads to ruin, and against Yahweh his heart will rage.
nor grumble, just as some of them grumbled, and were destroyed by the destroyer.
Do all [things] without grumbling and disputing,
Pitilessness » Condemned
But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered together; smiters whom I did not know gathered against me. They tore and did not cease.
"They snatch [the] orphan from [the] breast, and they take a pledge against [the] needy.
And in the same way also a Levite, [when he] came down to the place and saw [him], passed by on the opposite side.
They also gave me gall for food, and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Edom and for four I will not revoke [the punishment], because he pursued his brother with the sword! He stifled his compassion and his anger tore [them] apart {continually}, and he kept his rage forever.
But he did not want to, but rather he went [and] threw him into prison until he would repay what was owed.
[Like] one who removes a garment on a cold day, [or like] vinegar on natron, [is] he who sings songs to a heavy heart.
A man [who is] poor and oppresses the impoverished [is] a beating rain {that leaves} no food.
Places » High » Condemned
you will drive out the inhabitants of the land from your presence, and you will destroy all their idols and all the images of their molten idols, and you will demolish all their high places;
For surely, the thing which he proclaimed by the word of Yahweh against the altar which [is] in Bethel will happen, [as it will] against all the houses of the high places which [are] in the cities of Samaria."
And they built the high place of Topheth, which [is] in [the] Valley of Ben Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I have not commanded, and it did not come into my mind.
He removed the foreign altars and high places, broke down the stone pillars, and cut down the Asherahs.
And I will destroy your high places, and I will cut down your incense altars, and I will place your corpses on your idols' corpses; and my inner self shall abhor you.
Sacrilege » Condemned
For do you not have houses for eating and drinking? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who do not have [anything]? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this I will not praise [you]!
And the one who eats it shall bear his guilt, because he has profaned Yahweh's holiness, and that person shall be cut off from his people.
You will not bear any sin because {you have presented} its fat; you will not defile the holy objects of the {Israelites}, or you will die.'"
The one who says not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? The one who abhors idols, do you rob temples?
The Nation » Bribery » Condemned
Your princes [are] rebels and companions of thieves. Every one loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not defend [the] orphan and [the] legal dispute of [the] widow does not come before them.
And you will not take a bribe, because the bribe makes [the] sighted blind and ruins [the] words of [the] righteous.
in whose hands [is] an evil plan, and whose right hand is full of bribes.
The wicked will accept a bribe from the lap, [in order] to pervert the ways of justice.
Those who acquit the guilty because of a bribe and remove [the] justice of [the] innocent from him.
He who walks [in] righteousness and speaks uprightness, who rejects [the] gain of extortion, who {refuses} bribe, who stops up his ears from hearing {bloodshed} and shuts his eyes from seeing evil.
For I know your transgressions [are] many and your sins [are] numerous, [you] foes of [the] righteous, those who take a bribe, and {those who} push aside [the] poor [ones] in the gate!
Unrest » Condemned
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
Verse Concepts
Problem SolvingComfortingAdvice, Receiving God's AdviceAttitudes Of ThankfulfnessBeing AfraidAskingCarePrayer, As Asking GodPrayer, As Praise And ThanksgivingRest, PhysicalRestlessnessThankfulnessThanksgivingWorship, Elements OfWorship, Times ForSaints, Communion With GodPrayer, Offered WithAnxiety, OvercomeFrettingCare For Your BodyRelying Upon GodBeing CalmUnrestNothingDo Not Be Anxious
Thank God!PrayerNot WorryingAnxiety And FearFear And WorryWorryingThank YouThankfulness To OthersBeing GratefulGrateful HeartThanksgiving And GratitudeGiving ThanksTrusting God And Not WorryingPrayingWorrying About The FutureThanksNervousnesstomorrowpositivityeverythingsupplicationworriesanxiouspetitionTaking Risks With Faith
But I want you to be free from care. The unmarried person cares for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord.
casting all your cares on him, because {he cares} for you.
Verse Concepts
CareAnxietyAcknowledging GodBankruptcyComfortingAdversityBeing A BlessingBeing AfraidBeing BlessedDespair, Remedies ForGuardiansHealthReceptivenessRest, PhysicalStressSuffering, Of The InnocentWorryHelp From GodComfort, When WorriedBrokenheartedUnrest
Asking For HelpEncouragement In LifeTurning To GodDo Not Be AnxiousA Tough Break UpMental HealthAnxiety And DepressionServiceCasting Out FearNot WorryingAnxiety And FearFear And WorryWorryingFamily ProblemsTrusting God And Not WorryingWorrying About The FutureproblemsartistsworriesanxiousOvercoming Fear With Faith
But when they bring you before the synagogues and the rulers and the authorities, do not be anxious how or what you should speak in your own defense or what you should say,
And which of you [by] being anxious is able to add an hour to his life span?
Vices » Dishonesty » Condemned
Balances of deceit [are] an abomination of Yahweh, but {an accurate weight} delights him.
[The] trader, in his hand [are] scales of deceit; he loves to oppress.
Shall I regard as pure [the one] with scales of wickedness, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
[Like] a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay [is] one who amasses wealth without justice. In the middle of his days it will leave him, and at his end he will [prove to] be a fool."
"Bad, bad," the buyer will say, but [when] one goes to him, then he will boast.
"There shall not be {for your use} in your bag {two kinds of stone weights, a large one and a small one}.
Stone and stone, measure and measure, {both of them} [are] an abomination of Yahweh.
He who makes treasure by a lying tongue [is a] fleeting vapor [and] seeker of death.
Woe [to the one who] builds his house without righteousness, and his upper rooms without justice. His fellow countryman, he works for nothing, and he does not give to him his wages.
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