Thematic Bible: Devices of


Thematic Bible



"Woe to those who are crafting iniquity, planning evil well into the night! When morning's light comes, they carry out their plans because they have the power to do so. Verse Conceptsevil, warnings againstPlansPower, HumanEvil PlansRising EarlyEvil DevicesPlottingDecadenceDeliberationIn The MorningWoe To The WickedGod's People SinningPowerNatural Disasterswickednessaccomplishment

He devises iniquity on his bed and is determined to follow a path that is not good. He does not resist evil. Verse ConceptsEvil WaysImagination, Evil SchemingEvil PlansBedsEvil DevicesMischiefPlottingContinuing In SinStaying Positive

The person who plans on doing evil will be called a schemer. Verse ConceptsIntentionsEvil PlansCharacter Of WickedEvil Devices




Won't those who plot evil go astray? But gracious love and truth are for those who plan what is good. Verse Conceptsevil, warnings againstImagination, Evil SchemingPlansEvil PlansEvil DevicesFinding LoveMaking Mistakes

Whoever winks knowingly is plotting deceit; anyone who purses his lips is bent towards evil. Verse ConceptsLipsEvil DevicesPlottingWinkingMoving Onmovement

Furthermore, the crimes of bad people are evil; and they devise wicked schemes, destroying the poor with lying words, even when needy people plead a just cause. Verse ConceptsDishonesty, Kinds OfEvil PlansTrapEvil DevicesPlottinginstruments

Then he told me, "Son of Man, these men are plotting evil and are giving wicked advice in this city. Verse ConceptsEvil PlansEvil DevicesThe Entrance Of Sin



So it is not surprising if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their doom will match their deeds! Verse ConceptsServants Of The LorddisguisesServants Of PeoplePeople EndedRepaid For DeedsMinisterssurprises


For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. And if it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who refuse to obey the gospel of God? Verse ConceptsGod, As JudgeFamily, Showing God's RelationshipFaith, Testing OfPeople EndedJudgmentsFamiliesChurch Of Goda new beginningFamily FirstGoing To ChurchJudgement DayJudgementServing The Churchrevivalfateprocesspeter


What benefit did you get from doing those things you are now ashamed of? For those things resulted in death. Verse ConceptsLifestylesPunishment, Nature OfFruitful LabourSin Producing DeathShame Of Bad ConductSin Produces Death

However, if it continues to produce thorns and thistles, it is worthless and in danger of being cursed, and in the end will be burned. Verse ConceptsCreation Spoilt By SinBarren, LandThornsBurning PlantsPeople EndedGod CursingRejectionFarmingcultureapostasy

until I entered the sanctuaries of God. Then I understood their destiny. Verse ConceptsFate Of The UngodlyPeople Endedfateprospering

For this reason, God delivered them to sexual impurity as they followed the lusts of their hearts and dishonored their bodies with one another. Verse ConceptsCondemned Heartsevil, origins ofdesiresHeart, Fallen And RedeemedSexual Sin, Nature OfSexualitySin, Causes OfImpurityGod Handing OverIdolatryThey Committed ImmoralitysexDishonoring God

"Listen, you descendants of Israel! Come back to the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so he may come back to those of you who have escaped and survived from domination by the kings of Assyria. Don't be like your ancestors and your relatives, who weren't faithful to the LORD God of their ancestors, who, as a result, made them a desolate horror, as you well know. Verse ConceptsGod Of The FathersBeing A Good FatherParents Being Wrong

Look! Your house is left abandoned! Verse ConceptsEmpty Places


When she cried out, "The Philistines are attacking you, Samson!" he woke from his sleep and told himself, "I'll go out like I did at other times like this and shake myself free." But he didn't know that the LORD had abandoned him. Verse ConceptsSelf ConfidenceWeakness, PhysicalGod Abandoning Individualsresilienceflexibilitypremonitions

Saul inquired of the LORD, but the LORD did not answer him, either through dreams or Urim or through prophets. Verse Conceptsenquiring of GodThe Urim And ThummimGod Not AnsweringProphecy AbolishedUrim And ThummimRevelation Through Prophetssaul

So I allowed them to continue in their stubbornness, living by their own advice. Verse ConceptsGod Hardening PeoplePassionimaginationfollowing


So God turned away from them and gave them over to worship the heavenly bodies. As it is written in the book of the Prophets: "O house of Israel, you didn't offer me slaughtered animals and sacrifices those 40 years in the wilderness, did you? Verse ConceptsBody40 To 50 YearsIsrael In The WildernessBooks Of ProphecyWorshiping Together

God, if only you would execute the wicked, so that the men guilty of bloodshed would get away from me, Verse ConceptsSinnersViolenceThe Fate Of The WickedEvil AssociationsChrist Driving Out PeopleGod KillingGod KillsReady To Kill


They are wild waves of the sea, churning up the foam of their own shame. They are wandering stars for whom the deepest darkness has been reserved forever. Verse ConceptsBlackAstronomyRageColors, BlackHopelessnessThe Fate Of The WickedWanderersWavesEternal JudgementFoamsGod KeepsOuter DarknessShame Has Comewandering

The wicked person's iniquities will capture him, and he will be held with the cords of his sin. Verse ConceptsSin, Effects OfSin, Consequences OfThe Fate Of The WickedContinuing In SinPunishment of the The Wicked

For there is a cup in the hand of the LORD, foaming with well-mixed wine that he will pour out, leaving only the dregs, from which all the wicked of the earth will drink. Verse ConceptsCup, God's WrathAlcoholdrinkingHand Of GodHerbs And SpicesWineThe Fate Of The WickedMetaphorical WineMixed WineGod Making DrunkMark Of The Beast On Forehead

But you, God, bring them down to the Pit of corruption; bloodthirsty and deceitful people will not live out half their days. But I put my full confidence in you. To the Director: A special Davidic psalm to the tune of "A Silent Dove Far Away," when the Philistines seized him in Gath. Verse ConceptsDeceit, Practice OfDeceit Leading to JudgmentHell, As An ExperienceLiesPitsLiarsThe Fate Of The WickedAbasing PeopleHalf Of ThingsPits As A Term For Graves

The wicked person sees this and flies into a rage; his teeth gnash and wear away. The desire of the wicked will amount to nothing. Verse ConceptsFutilityBitingDecayRest, SpiritualTeethGnashing Of TeethThe Fate Of The WickedFrustration

Though the wicked sprout like grass; and all who practice iniquity flourish, it is they who will be eternally destroyed. Verse ConceptsGrassWicked Described AsThe Fate Of The WickedEvildoersEternal JudgementDestruction Of The WickedGod Judges The WickedLike GrassProsperity Of The Wicked


Yet a little while longer, and the wicked will be no more. You will search for his place, but he will not be there. Verse ConceptsThe Fate Of The WickedPeople Passing Away


Were they ashamed because they did what was repugnant to God? They were not ashamed at all they don't even know how to blush! Therefore they'll fall with those who fall. When I punish them, they'll be brought down," says the LORD. Verse ConceptsAbominationsRegretCorrupted ConsciencesThe Insecurity Of The WickedBlushingPeople StumblingRed FacesUnknown ThingsAbsence Of RegretFeeling Lost

Those who have been swearing oaths by the sin of Samaria, or who say, "As your god lives, Dan"' or who say, "As the way of Beer-sheba lives"' will fall, and will never rise again." Verse ConceptsThe Insecurity Of The WickedHarlotsLiving ThingsShame Of IdolatrySwearing

The righteousness of the innocent creates a level path, but the wicked fall by their wickedness. Verse ConceptsGod's WaysThe Insecurity Of The WickedDistinctives Of Righteousnesswickedness

Whoever digs a pit may fall into it, and whoever breaks through a wall may suffer a snake bite. Verse ConceptsThe Insecurity Of The WickedDigging Pits

However, I'm not going to punish your daughters when they commit prostitution, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery, because their men are themselves immoral they offer sacrifices with prostitutes. These people who aren't discerning will stumble. Verse ConceptsThe Insecurity Of The WickedBeing Without UnderstandingMale Prostitutesadultrywhores

"You are to say to them, "This is what the LORD says: "Will a person fall down and then not get up? Will someone turn away and then not turn back again? Verse ConceptsThe Insecurity Of The Wicked

So I watched the wicked being entombed. They used to come in and out of the Holy Place, but now they are forgotten in the city, where they used to work. This, too, is pointless. Verse ConceptsOblivionVanityUseless EndeavourBurying places

No one remembers him anywhere in the land; no one names streets in his honor. Verse ConceptsOblivionDeath Of The WickedForgetting Peopleremembrance

The face of the LORD is set against those who do evil, and he will remove people's recollection of them from the earth. Verse ConceptsGod, Joy OfFace Of GodOblivionevil, warnings againstEvildoersSinnersDeath Of The WickedDispleasureForgetting PeopleGod OpposingRemoving People From Your Liferemembrance

"I said, "I will scatter them, erasing their memory from the human race, Verse ConceptsOblivionPeople Cut In PiecesForgetting Peopleremembrance

May what they have done be continually in the LORD's presence; and may their memory be excised from the earth. Verse ConceptsOblivionBlotted Out

because stillborn children arrive in pointlessness, leave in darkness, and their names are covered in darkness. Verse ConceptsOblivionOvertaken By DarknessUseless PeopleMiscarriages And Stillborn


The good person will gain favor from the LORD, but the man who plots evil will be condemned by him. Verse ConceptsBehaviourShrewdnessDivine FavourEvil DevicesCondemnation Of The WickedA Good Man

The LORD makes void the counsel of nations; he frustrates the plans of nations. Verse ConceptsAdvice, From GodPlansEvil DevicesPlans Of MenNothingGod Hindering

But when Esther came before the king, he ordered through a letter that the evil plot that Haman had devised against the Jewish people be rescinded, and that he and his sons be hanged on poles. Verse ConceptsEvil DevicesPeople Hung To Death

He frustrates the plans of the crafty; so that what they work for never succeeds. Verse ConceptsGuidance, Need For God'sEvil DevicesDeviousnessFrustrationDisappointmentSuccess And Hard Work


For they run toward evil; these enticers shed blood without hesitation. Verse ConceptsSheddingRunning After EvilFeet In ActionReady To Kill


Their feet rush to evil, and they are quick to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; ruin, destruction, and violence are in their paths. Verse ConceptsFeetevil, origins ofInnocence, Teaching OnCharacter Of WickedInnocent BloodSheddingPaths Of The WickedDestructionThoughts Of The WickedReady To Kill


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