Thematic Bible: Desired


Thematic Bible



When I send Artemas to you, or Tychicus, hasten to come to me at Nicopolis, for I have determined to winter there. Verse ConceptsMissionaries, Support ForPaul, Life OfWinterVisiting

And He took Peter and the two sons of Zebedee with Him, and He began to be sorrowful and very heavy. Verse ConceptsChrist Going With PeopleTwo SonsDepression

Try to come before winter. Eubulus greets you, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brothers. Verse ConceptsWinterBrotherhoodeffort

For he longed after you all and was full of heaviness, because you had heard that he had been sick. Verse ConceptsAffection, ExpressingOther Sad People


My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint on my self; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. Verse ConceptsComplaintsHealthBeing BitterResentment, Against GodSelf PitySuicideWeariness Of LifeLife DespisedDeath DesiredComplainingBitternesstiredventing

Who will grant that You would hide me in the grave, that You would keep me secret, until Your wrath is past, that You would set me a fixed time and remember me? Verse ConceptsGrave, TheSheolDesire For DeathGod Hiding People

Oh that I might have my desire, and that God would grant the thing that I long for! Even that it would please God to destroy me; that He would loose His hand and cut me off! And it is yet my comfort; yea, I would rejoice in pain, though He did not spare me; for I have not hidden the words of the Holy One. read more.
What is my strength, that I should hope? And what is my end, that I should be patient?

Is there not a warfare to man on earth? Are not his days also like the days of a hireling? As a servant earnestly desires the shadow, and as a hireling looks for his wages, so I am made to possess months of vanity, and weary nights are appointed to me.

so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my life. I despise them; I will not live always; let me alone, for my days are vanity.

For indeed in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our dwelling-place out of Heaven; Verse ConceptsThirstWearinessClothed With Good ThingsChanging DirectionRight DesiresTaken To Heaven


according to my earnest expectation and hope that I shall be ashamed in nothing, but as always now Christ shall be magnified in my body with all boldness, whether it is by life or by death. For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labor. Yet I do not know what I shall choose. read more.
For I am pressed together by the two: having a desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better.

And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the rest of those who remain of this evil family, who remain in all the places where I have driven them, says Jehovah of Hosts. Verse ConceptsBanishmentDespair, Description OfHope, Results Of Its AbsenceDesire For DeathSurvivors Of The NationsSurvivors ThreatenedFamily LoveLove And FamilyFamily Death


And if You are going to part this way with me, I beg You to kill me at once, if I have found favor in Your sight, and let me not see my misery. Verse ConceptsHope, Results Of Its AbsenceUniversality Of DeathDepression, SymptomsUnwise PrayersApproval To Kill Oneself

And he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he begged for his life, that he might die. And he said, It is enough. O Jehovah, 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


And it happened when the sun shone, God ordained a scorching east wind. And the sun beat on the head of Jonah, so that he fainted. And he asked for his life to die. And he said, Better is my death 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