Thematic Bible: Condemned
Thematic Bible
Bribery » Condemned
Your officials are rebels, they associate with thieves. All of them love bribery, and look for payoffs. They do not take up the cause of the orphan, or defend the rights of the widow.
"You must not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and subverts the words of the righteous.
who are always ready to do wrong or offer a bribe.
A wicked person receives a bribe secretly to pervert the ways of justice.
They pronounce the guilty innocent for a payoff, they ignore the just cause of the innocent.
The one who lives uprightly and speaks honestly; the one who refuses to profit from oppressive measures and rejects a bribe; the one who does not plot violent crimes and does not seek to harm others --
Certainly I am aware of your many rebellious acts and your numerous sins. You torment the innocent, you take bribes, and you deny justice to the needy at the city gate.
Business life » Dishonesty » Condemned
The Lord abhors dishonest scales, but an accurate weight is his delight.
The businessmen love to cheat; they use dishonest scales.
I do not condone the use of rigged scales, or a bag of deceptive weights.
The person who gathers wealth by unjust means is like the partridge that broods over eggs but does not hatch them. Before his life is half over he will lose his ill-gotten gains. At the end of his life it will be clear he was a fool."
"It's worthless! It's worthless!" says the buyer, but when he goes on his way, he boasts.
You must not have in your bag different stone weights, a heavy and a light one.
Diverse weights and diverse measures -- the Lord abhors both of them.
Making a fortune by a lying tongue is like a vapor driven back and forth; they seek death.
"'Sure to be judged is the king who builds his palace using injustice and treats people unfairly while adding its upper rooms. He makes his countrymen work for him for nothing. He does not pay them for their labor.
Dishonesty » Condemned
The Lord abhors dishonest scales, but an accurate weight is his delight.
The businessmen love to cheat; they use dishonest scales.
I do not condone the use of rigged scales, or a bag of deceptive weights.
The person who gathers wealth by unjust means is like the partridge that broods over eggs but does not hatch them. Before his life is half over he will lose his ill-gotten gains. At the end of his life it will be clear he was a fool."
"It's worthless! It's worthless!" says the buyer, but when he goes on his way, he boasts.
You must not have in your bag different stone weights, a heavy and a light one.
Diverse weights and diverse measures -- the Lord abhors both of them.
Making a fortune by a lying tongue is like a vapor driven back and forth; they seek death.
"'Sure to be judged is the king who builds his palace using injustice and treats people unfairly while adding its upper rooms. He makes his countrymen work for him for nothing. He does not pay them for their labor.
Dullness » Condemned
No one thinks to himself, nor do they comprehend or understand and say to themselves: 'I burned half of it in the fire -- yes, I baked bread over the coals; I roasted meat and ate it. With the rest of it should I make a disgusting idol? Should I bow down to dry wood?'
"Son of man, you are living in the midst of a rebellious house. They have eyes to see, but do not see, and ears to hear, but do not hear, because they are a rebellious house.
The spiritually insensitive do not recognize this; the fool does not understand this.
You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how can you not know how to interpret the present time?
Why don't you understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot accept my teaching.
there is no one who understands, there is no one who seeks God.
On this topic 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 your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourselves in the day of wrath, when God's righteous judgment is revealed!
Blessed is the one who is always cautious, but whoever hardens his heart will fall into evil.
The one who stiffens his neck after numerous rebukes will suddenly be destroyed without remedy.
So he poured out his fierce anger on them, along with the devastation of war. Its flames encircled them, but they did not realize it; it burned against them, but they did notice.
But exhort one another each day, as long as it is called "Today," that none of you may become hardened by sin's deception.
He says, "Do not be stubborn like they were at Meribah, like they were that day at Massah in the wilderness,
Hatred » Condemned
The one who says he is in the light but still hates his fellow Christian is still in the darkness.
Everyone who hates his fellow Christian is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him.
Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers all transgressions.
Better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox where there is hatred.
If anyone says "I love God" and yet hates his fellow Christian, he is a liar, because the one who does not love his fellow Christian whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.
You must not hate your brother in your heart. You must surely reprove your fellow citizen so that you do not incur sin on account of him.
High places » Condemned
you must drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. Destroy all their carved images, all their molten images, and demolish their high places.
for the prophecy he announced with the Lord's authority against the altar in Bethel and against all the temples on the high places in the cities of the north will certainly be fulfilled."
They have also built places of worship in a place called Topheth in the Valley of Ben Hinnom so that they can sacrifice their sons and daughters by fire. That is something I never commanded them to do! Indeed, it never even entered my mind to command such a thing!
He removed the pagan altars and the high places, smashed the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles.
I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars, and I will stack your dead bodies on top of the lifeless bodies of your idols. I will abhor you.
Injustice » Condemned
You must not pervert justice due a resident foreigner or an orphan, or take a widow's garment as security for a loan.
You must not pervert justice or show favor. Do not take a bribe, for bribes blind the eyes of the wise and distort the words of the righteous.
He says, "How long will you make unjust legal decisions and show favoritism to the wicked? (Selah)
An unjust person is an abomination to the righteous, and the one who lives an upright life is an abomination to the wicked.
It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to crave strong drink, lest they drink and forget what is decreed, and remove from all the poor their legal rights.
I saw something else on earth: In the place of justice, there was wickedness, and in the place of fairness, there was wickedness.
"The one who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and the one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.
Malice » Condemned
You must put away every kind of bitterness, anger, wrath, quarreling, and evil, slanderous talk.
But now, put off all such things as anger, rage, malice, slander, abusive language from your mouth.
So then, let us celebrate the festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of vice and evil, but with the bread without yeast, the bread of sincerity and truth.
Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking. Instead, be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.
Murmuring » Condemned
Those who stray morally will gain understanding; those who complain will acquire insight.
A person's folly subverts his way, and his heart rages against the Lord.
And do not complain, as some of them did, and were killed by the destroying angel.
Do everything without grumbling or arguing,
Pitilessness » Condemned
But when I stumbled, they rejoiced and gathered together; they gathered together to ambush me. They tore at me without stopping to rest.
The fatherless child is snatched from the breast, the infant of the poor is taken as a pledge.
So too a Levite, when he came up to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side.
They put bitter poison into my food, and to quench my thirst they give me vinegar to drink.
This is what the Lord says: "Because Edom has committed three crimes -- make that four! -- I will not revoke my decree of judgment. He chased his brother with a sword; he wiped out his allies. In his anger he tore them apart without stopping to rest; in his fury he relentlessly attacked them.
But he refused. Instead, he went out and threw him in prison until he repaid the debt.
Like one who takes off a garment on a cold day, or like vinegar poured on soda, so is one who sings songs to a heavy heart.
A poor person who oppresses the weak is like a driving rain without food.
Places » High » Condemned
you must drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. Destroy all their carved images, all their molten images, and demolish their high places.
for the prophecy he announced with the Lord's authority against the altar in Bethel and against all the temples on the high places in the cities of the north will certainly be fulfilled."
They have also built places of worship in a place called Topheth in the Valley of Ben Hinnom so that they can sacrifice their sons and daughters by fire. That is something I never commanded them to do! Indeed, it never even entered my mind to command such a thing!
He removed the pagan altars and the high places, smashed the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles.
I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars, and I will stack your dead bodies on top of the lifeless bodies of your idols. I will abhor you.
Sacrilege » Condemned
Do you not have houses so that you can eat and drink? Or are you trying to show contempt for the church of God by shaming those who have nothing? What should I say to you? Should I praise you? I will not praise you for this!
and the one who eats it will bear his punishment for iniquity because he has profaned what is holy to the Lord. That person will be cut off from his people.
And you will bear no sin concerning it when you offer up the best of it. And you must not profane the holy things of the Israelites, or else you will die.'"
You who tell others not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?
The Nation » Bribery » Condemned
Your officials are rebels, they associate with thieves. All of them love bribery, and look for payoffs. They do not take up the cause of the orphan, or defend the rights of the widow.
"You must not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and subverts the words of the righteous.
who are always ready to do wrong or offer a bribe.
A wicked person receives a bribe secretly to pervert the ways of justice.
They pronounce the guilty innocent for a payoff, they ignore the just cause of the innocent.
The one who lives uprightly and speaks honestly; the one who refuses to profit from oppressive measures and rejects a bribe; the one who does not plot violent crimes and does not seek to harm others --
Certainly I am aware of your many rebellious acts and your numerous sins. You torment the innocent, you take bribes, and you deny justice to the needy at the city gate.
Unrest » Condemned
Do not be anxious about anything. Instead, in every situation, through prayer and petition with thanksgiving, tell your requests 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
And I want you to be free from concern. An unmarried man is concerned about the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord.
by 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, the rulers, and the authorities, do not worry about how you should make your defense or what you should say,
And which of you by worrying can add an hour to his life?
Vices » Dishonesty » Condemned
The Lord abhors dishonest scales, but an accurate weight is his delight.
The businessmen love to cheat; they use dishonest scales.
I do not condone the use of rigged scales, or a bag of deceptive weights.
The person who gathers wealth by unjust means is like the partridge that broods over eggs but does not hatch them. Before his life is half over he will lose his ill-gotten gains. At the end of his life it will be clear he was a fool."
"It's worthless! It's worthless!" says the buyer, but when he goes on his way, he boasts.
You must not have in your bag different stone weights, a heavy and a light one.
Diverse weights and diverse measures -- the Lord abhors both of them.
Making a fortune by a lying tongue is like a vapor driven back and forth; they seek death.
"'Sure to be judged is the king who builds his palace using injustice and treats people unfairly while adding its upper rooms. He makes his countrymen work for him for nothing. He does not pay them for their labor.
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