Thematic Bible: Desired


Thematic Bible



When I send Artemas or Tychicus to you, make every effort to come to me in Nicopolis, for I have decided to spend the winter there. Verse ConceptsMissionaries, Support ForPaul, Life OfWinterVisiting

Taking along Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, He began to be sorrowful and deeply distressed. Verse ConceptsChrist Going With PeopleTwo SonsDepression

Make every effort to come before winter. Eubulus greets you, as do Pudens, Linus, Claudia, and all the brothers. Verse ConceptsWinterBrotherhoodeffort

since he has been longing for all of you and was distressed because you heard that he was sick. Verse ConceptsAffection, ExpressingOther Sad People



If only You would hide me in Sheol
and conceal me until Your anger passes.
If only You would appoint a time for me
and then remember me.
Verse ConceptsGrave, TheSheolDesire For DeathGod Hiding People

If only my request would be granted and God would provide what I hope for: that He would decide to crush me, to unleash His power and cut me off! It would still bring me comfort, and I would leap for joy in unrelenting pain that I have not denied the words of the Holy One. read more.
What strength do I have that I should continue to hope? What is my future, that I should be patient?

Isn't mankind consigned to forced labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand? Like a slave he longs for shade; like a hired man he waits for his pay. So I have been made to inherit months of futility, and troubled nights have been assigned to me.

so that I prefer strangling, death rather than life in this body. I give up! I will not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are a breath.

Indeed, we groan in this body, desiring to put on our dwelling from heaven, Verse ConceptsThirstWearinessClothed With Good ThingsChanging DirectionRight DesiresTaken To Heaven


My eager expectation and hope is that I will not be ashamed about anything, but that now as always, with all boldness, Christ will be highly honored in my body, whether by life or by death. For me, living is Christ and dying is gain. Now if I live on in the flesh, this means fruitful work for me; and I don't know which one I should choose. read more.
I am pressured by both. I have the desire to depart and be with Christ-which is far better-

Death will be chosen over life by all the survivors of this evil family, those who remain wherever I have banished them.” This is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts. Verse ConceptsBanishmentDespair, Description OfHope, Results Of Its AbsenceDesire For DeathSurvivors Of The NationsSurvivors ThreatenedFamily LoveLove And FamilyFamily Death


If You are going to treat me like this, please kill me right now. If You are pleased with me, don’t let me see my misery anymore.” Verse ConceptsHope, Results Of Its AbsenceUniversality Of DeathDepression, SymptomsUnwise PrayersApproval To Kill Oneself

but he went on a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. He said, “I have had enough! Lord, take my life, for I’m no better than my fathers.” Verse ConceptsDisappointments, Examples OfHope, Results Of Its AbsenceJourneyUniversality Of DeathLonelinessPrayer, As Asking GodPrayer, Doubts AboutSelf PitySittingTreesComplaintsUnwise PrayersDesire For DeathDimensions Of Other ThingsTemporary Stay In The WildernessDeathDepression


As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind. The sun beat down so much on Jonah’s head that he almost fainted, and he wanted to die. He said, “It’s better for me to die than to live.” Verse ConceptsFaintingeastDespondency, Examples OfHeatHopelessnessThe SunWeather, God's Sovereignty OverWindCynicismWanting To DieAdvantagesOut Of The EastGod Dispensing WindDesire For DeathHot WeatherGod Appointing OthersLife DespisedrelaxingjonahThe East Wind


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