Thematic Bible: Desired


Thematic Bible



When I send Artemas or Tychicus to you, do your best to come to me at Nicopolis: for it is my purpose to be there for the winter. Verse ConceptsMissionaries, Support ForPaul, Life OfWinterVisiting

And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and became sad and very troubled. Verse ConceptsChrist Going With PeopleTwo SonsDepression

Do your best to come before the winter. Eubulus sends you his love, and Pudens and Linus and Claudia, and all the brothers. Verse ConceptsWinterBrotherhoodeffort

Because his heart was with you all, and he was greatly troubled because you had news that he was ill: Verse ConceptsAffection, ExpressingOther Sad People


My soul is tired of life; I will let my sad thoughts go free in words; my soul will make a bitter outcry. Verse ConceptsComplaintsHealthBeing BitterResentment, Against GodSelf PitySuicideWeariness Of LifeLife DespisedDeath DesiredComplainingBitternesstiredventing

If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again! Verse ConceptsGrave, TheSheolDesire For DeathGod Hiding People

If only I might have an answer to my prayer, and God would give me my desire! If only he would be pleased to put an end to me; and would let loose his hand, so that I might be cut off! So I would still have comfort, and I would have joy in the pains of death, for I have not been false to the words of the Holy One. read more.
Have I strength to go on waiting, or have I any end to be looking forward to?

Has not man his ordered time of trouble on the earth? and are not his days like the days of a servant working for payment? As a servant desiring the shades of evening, and a workman looking for his payment: So I have for my heritage months of pain to no purpose, and nights of weariness are given to me.

So that a hard death seems better to my soul than my pains. I have no desire for life, I would not be living for ever! Keep away from me, for my days are as a breath.

For in this we are crying in weariness, greatly desiring to be clothed with our house from heaven: Verse ConceptsThirstWearinessClothed With Good ThingsChanging DirectionRight DesiresTaken To Heaven


In the measure of my strong hope and belief that in nothing will I be put to shame, but that without fear, as at all times, so now will Christ have glory in my body, by life or by death. For to me life is Christ and death is profit. But if I go on living in the flesh--if this is the fruit of my work--then I do not see what decision to make. read more.
I am in a hard position between the two, having a desire to go away and be with Christ, which is very much better:

And death will be desired more than life by the rest of this evil family who are still living in all the places where I have sent them away, says the Lord of armies. Verse ConceptsBanishmentDespair, Description OfHope, Results Of Its AbsenceDesire For DeathSurvivors Of The NationsSurvivors ThreatenedFamily LoveLove And FamilyFamily Death


If this is to be my fate, put me to death now in answer to my prayer, if I have grace in your eyes; and let me not see my shame. Verse ConceptsHope, Results Of Its AbsenceUniversality Of DeathDepression, SymptomsUnwise PrayersApproval To Kill Oneself

While he himself went a day's journey into the waste land, and took a seat under a broom-plant, desiring for himself only death; for he said, It is enough: now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am 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


Then when the sun came up, God sent a burning east wind: and so great was the heat of the sun on his head that Jonah was overcome, and, requesting death for himself, said, Death is better for me than life. 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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