Thematic Bible: Desired


Thematic Bible



When I send Artemas to you, or Tychicus, be diligent to come to me to Nicopolis, for I have determined to winter there.

He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and severely troubled.

Be diligent to come before winter. Eubulus salutes you, as do Pudens, Linus, Claudia, and all the brothers.

since he longed for you all, and was very troubled, because you had heard that he was sick.



"My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

"Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me.

"Oh that I might have my request, that God would grant the thing that I long for, even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off. Be it still my consolation, yes, let me exult in pain that doesn't spare, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One. read more.
What is my strength, that I should wait? What is my end, that I should be patient?

"Isn't a man forced to labor on earth? Aren't his days like the days of a hired hand? As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, as a hireling who looks for his wages, so am I made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights are appointed to me.

so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones. I loathe my life. I do not want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.


For truly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven,


according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death. For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. But if I live on in the flesh, this will bring fruit from my work; yet I do not make known what I will choose. read more.
But I am in a dilemma between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.


Death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue that remain of this evil family, that remain in all the places where I have driven them," says the LORD of hosts.



If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and do not let me see my wretchedness."


But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he requested for himself that he might die, and said, "It is enough. Now, O LORD, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers."


"Now you are releasing your servant, Sovereign Lord, according to your word, in peace;


It happened, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah's head, so that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, "It is better for me to die than to live."