Thematic Bible: Devices of


Thematic Bible



Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand. Verse Conceptsevil, warnings againstPlansPower, HumanEvil PlansRising EarlyEvil DevicesPlottingDecadenceDeliberationIn The MorningWoe To The WickedGod's People SinningPowerNatural Disasterswickednessaccomplishment

He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn't abhor evil. Verse ConceptsEvil WaysImagination, Evil SchemingEvil PlansBedsEvil DevicesMischiefPlottingContinuing In SinStaying Positive

One who plots to do evil will be called a schemer. Verse ConceptsIntentionsEvil PlansCharacter Of WickedEvil Devices

But they say, It is in vain; for we will walk after our own devices, and we will do everyone after the stubbornness of his evil heart. Verse ConceptsFools, Characteristics OfHardened Heartsevil, origins ofHardness Of HeartHeart, Fallen And RedeemedPlansEvil DevicesGod's PlanGods PlanGod's Plan For Usimagination



Don't they go astray who plot evil? But love and faithfulness belong to those who plan good. Verse Conceptsevil, warnings againstImagination, Evil SchemingPlansEvil PlansEvil DevicesFinding LoveMaking Mistakes

One who winks his eyes to plot perversities, one who compresses his lips, is bent on evil. Verse ConceptsLipsEvil DevicesPlottingWinkingMoving Onmovement

The ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked devices to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right. Verse ConceptsDishonesty, Kinds OfEvil PlansTrapEvil DevicesPlottinginstruments

He said to me, Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity, and who give wicked counsel in this city; Verse ConceptsEvil PlansEvil DevicesThe Entrance Of Sin



It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works. Verse ConceptsServants Of The LorddisguisesServants Of PeoplePeople EndedRepaid For DeedsMinisterssurprises


For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don't obey the Good News of God? Verse ConceptsGod, As JudgeFamily, Showing God's RelationshipFaith, Testing OfPeople EndedJudgmentsFamiliesChurch Of Goda new beginningFamily FirstGoing To ChurchJudgement DayJudgementServing The Churchrevivalfateprocesspeter

As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together. The future of the wicked shall be cut off. Verse ConceptsEternal DeathSin, God's Judgment OnSinnersDestruction Of The WickedChildren SufferingGod Judges The WickedThe Future

What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. Verse ConceptsLifestylesPunishment, Nature OfFruitful LabourSin Producing DeathShame Of Bad ConductSin Produces Death

but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burned. Verse ConceptsCreation Spoilt By SinBarren, LandThornsBurning PlantsPeople EndedGod CursingRejectionFarmingcultureapostasy

Until I entered God's sanctuary, and considered their latter end. Verse ConceptsFate Of The UngodlyPeople Endedfateprospering

Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves, Verse ConceptsCondemned Heartsevil, origins ofdesiresHeart, Fallen And RedeemedSexual Sin, Nature OfSexualitySin, Causes OfImpurityGod Handing OverIdolatryThey Committed ImmoralitysexDishonoring God

Don't be like your fathers, and like your brothers, who trespassed against Yahweh, the God of their fathers, so that he gave them up to desolation, as you see. Verse ConceptsGod Of The FathersBeing A Good FatherParents Being Wrong

Behold, your house is left to you desolate. Verse ConceptsEmpty Places


She said, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" He awoke out of his sleep, and said, "I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free." But he didn't know that Yahweh had departed from him. Verse ConceptsSelf ConfidenceWeakness, PhysicalGod Abandoning Individualsresilienceflexibilitypremonitions

When Saul inquired of Yahweh, Yahweh didn't answer him, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets. Verse Conceptsenquiring of GodThe Urim And ThummimGod Not AnsweringProphecy AbolishedUrim And ThummimRevelation Through Prophetssaul

So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels. Verse ConceptsGod Hardening PeoplePassionimaginationfollowing


But God turned, and gave them up to serve the army of the sky, as it is written in the book of the prophets, 'Did you offer to me slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel? Verse ConceptsBody40 To 50 YearsIsrael In The WildernessBooks Of ProphecyWorshiping Together



wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever. Verse ConceptsBlackAstronomyRageColors, BlackHopelessnessThe Fate Of The WickedWanderersWavesEternal JudgementFoamsGod KeepsOuter DarknessShame Has Comewandering

The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly. Verse ConceptsSin, Effects OfSin, Consequences OfThe Fate Of The WickedContinuing In SinPunishment of the The Wicked

For in the hand of Yahweh there is a cup, full of foaming wine mixed with spices. He pours it out. Indeed the wicked of the earth drink and drink it to its very dregs. 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, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Silent Dove in Distant Lands." A poem by David, 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 will see it, and be grieved. He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away. The desire of the wicked will perish. Verse ConceptsFutilityBitingDecayRest, SpiritualTeethGnashing Of TeethThe Fate Of The WickedFrustration



For yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more. Yes, though you look for his place, he isn't there. Verse ConceptsThe Fate Of The WickedPeople Passing Away


Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; at the time that I visit them, they shall be cast down," says Yahweh. Verse ConceptsAbominationsRegretCorrupted ConsciencesThe Insecurity Of The WickedBlushingPeople StumblingRed FacesUnknown ThingsAbsence Of RegretFeeling Lost

Those who swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, 'As your god, Dan, lives;' and, 'As the way of Beersheba lives;' they will fall, and never rise up again." Verse ConceptsThe Insecurity Of The WickedHarlotsLiving ThingsShame Of IdolatrySwearing

The righteousness of the blameless will direct his way, but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness. Verse ConceptsGod's WaysThe Insecurity Of The WickedDistinctives Of Righteousnesswickedness

He who digs a pit may fall into it; and whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake. Verse ConceptsThe Insecurity Of The WickedDigging Pits

I will not punish your daughters when they play the prostitute, nor your brides when they commit adultery; because the men consort with prostitutes, and they sacrifice with the shrine prostitutes; so the people without understanding will come to ruin. Verse ConceptsThe Insecurity Of The WickedBeing Without UnderstandingMale Prostitutesadultrywhores

Moreover you shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh: Shall men fall, and not rise up again? Shall one turn away, and not return? Verse ConceptsThe Insecurity Of The Wicked

So I saw the wicked buried. Indeed they came also from holiness. They went and were forgotten in the city where they did this. This also is vanity. Verse ConceptsOblivionVanityUseless EndeavourBurying places

His memory shall perish from the earth. He shall have no name in the street. Verse ConceptsOblivionDeath Of The WickedForgetting Peopleremembrance


I said, I would scatter them afar. I would make the memory of them to cease from among men; Verse ConceptsOblivionPeople Cut In PiecesForgetting Peopleremembrance

Let them be before Yahweh continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth; Verse ConceptsOblivionBlotted Out

for it comes in vanity, and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness. Verse ConceptsOblivionOvertaken By DarknessUseless PeopleMiscarriages And Stillborn


A good man shall obtain favor from Yahweh, but he will condemn a man of wicked devices. Verse ConceptsBehaviourShrewdnessDivine FavourEvil DevicesCondemnation Of The WickedA Good Man

Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect. Verse ConceptsAdvice, From GodPlansEvil DevicesPlans Of MenNothingGod Hindering

but when this became known to the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he had devised against the Jews, should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows. Verse ConceptsEvil DevicesPeople Hung To Death

He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands can't perform their enterprise. Verse ConceptsGuidance, Need For God'sEvil DevicesDeviousnessFrustrationDisappointmentSuccess And Hard Work


for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood. Verse ConceptsSheddingRunning After EvilFeet In ActionReady To Kill


Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths. Verse ConceptsFeetevil, origins ofInnocence, Teaching OnCharacter Of WickedInnocent BloodSheddingPaths Of The WickedDestructionThoughts Of The WickedReady To Kill