Thematic Bible: Desired


Thematic Bible



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

And taking along Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be distressed and troubled. Verse ConceptsChrist Going With PeopleTwo SonsDepression

Make haste to come before winter. Eubulus and Pudens and Linus and Claudia and all the brothers greet you. Verse ConceptsWinterBrotherhoodeffort

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


"My inner self loathes my life; {I want to give vent to my complaint}; I want to speak out of [the] bitterness of my inner self. Verse ConceptsComplaintsHealthBeing BitterResentment, Against GodSelf PitySuicideWeariness Of LifeLife DespisedDeath DesiredComplainingBitternesstiredventing

"{O that} you would conceal me in Sheol, [that] you would hide me {until your wrath is past}, [that] you would appoint a set time for me and remember me. Verse ConceptsGrave, TheSheolDesire For DeathGod Hiding People

"{O that} my request may come, and [that] God may grant my hope, that God would decide that he would crush me, [that] he would let loose his hand and {kill me}. But it will still be my consolation, and I would recoil in {unrelenting} pain, for I have not denied [the] words of [the] Holy One. read more.
What [is] my strength, that I should wait? And what [is] my end, that {I should hold out}?

"Does not {a human being have hard service} on earth? And [are not] his days like the days of a laborer? Like a slave he longs for [the] shadow, and like a laborer he waits for his wages. So {I had to inherit} months of worthlessness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.

So my inner self will choose strangling-- death more than my {existence}. I loathe [my life]; I would not live forever; depart from me, for my days [are] a breath.

For indeed, in this [house] we groan, [because we] desire to put on our dwelling from heaven, Verse ConceptsThirstWearinessClothed With Good ThingsChanging DirectionRight DesiresTaken To Heaven


according to my eager expectation and hope, that I will be put to shame in nothing, but with all boldness, even now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether through life or through death. For to me to live [is] Christ and to die [is] gain. But if [it is] to live in the flesh, this [is] fruitful work for me, and which I will prefer [I do] not know. read more.
But I am hard pressed {between the two options}, having the desire to depart and to be with Christ, {for this is very much better}.

And death will be preferred to life by all the remaining of this evil clan in all the remaining places where I have driven them away," {declares} Yahweh. Verse ConceptsBanishmentDespair, Description OfHope, Results Of Its AbsenceDesire For DeathSurvivors Of The NationsSurvivors ThreatenedFamily LoveLove And FamilyFamily Death


If this is how you [are] going to treat me, please kill me immediately if I find favor in your eyes, and do not let me see my misery." Verse ConceptsHope, Results Of Its AbsenceUniversality Of DeathDepression, SymptomsUnwise PrayersApproval To Kill Oneself

Then he went into the wilderness one day's journey, and he went and sat under a certain broom tree. Then {he asked Yahweh that he might die}, and he said, "It is enough now, Yahweh; take my life, for I am no better than my ancestors." 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


{And when the sun rose}, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah's head and he grew faint. {And he asked that he could die} and said, "My death [is] better than my 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