Thematic Bible: Economy


Thematic Bible



They took their wine and gave praise to the gods of gold and silver, of brass and iron and wood and stone. Verse ConceptsGoldIronDrunkenness, Examples OfBrassDrinking WineWood And StoneBronze For Idols

You are conscious that when you were Gentiles, in whatever way you were guided, you went after images without voice or power. Verse ConceptsDumbnessMutenessPagansPolytheismCarrying IdolsDumbdiscriminationstatuesHinduism

Has any nation ever made a change in their gods, though they are no gods? but my people have given up their glory in exchange for what is of no profit. Verse ConceptsNegotiationPolytheismExchanging Good For BadGod Bestowing GloryNo Help In Other Gods

For all the gods of the nations are false gods; but the Lord made the heavens. Verse ConceptsAstronomyCreation Of The Physical Heavens

Then the towns of Judah and the people of Jerusalem will go crying for help to the gods to whom they have been burning perfumes: but they will give them no salvation in the time of their trouble. Verse ConceptsGod, As SaviorFalse ReligionemptinessIncense Offered AmissIdolatryThings Which Cannot SaveServing One's Own GodsNo Help In Other Gods

Their land is full of images; they give worship to the work of their hands, even to that which their fingers have made. Verse ConceptsFingersBowingFilling PlacesPolytheismIdol WorshipWorshiping God


For though there are those who have the name of gods, in heaven or on earth, as there are a number of gods and a number of lords, Verse ConceptsPolytheism

Will a man make for himself gods which are no gods? Verse ConceptsFalse Religionpeople

And they come to you as my people come, and are seated before you as my people, hearing your words but doing them not: for deceit is in their mouth and their heart goes after profit for themselves. And truly you are to them like a love song by one who has a very pleasing voice and is an expert player on an instrument: for they give ear to your words but do them not.



Smooth lips and an evil heart are like a vessel of earth plated with silver waste. Verse ConceptsCoatsNominal ReligionWicked Described AsProfessingArtificialnessOverlaid With SilverShowing Hypocrisy

Why do you say to me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say? Verse ConceptsDeception, Forbidden By GodProfessingChrist Is LordCalling


In the memory that God was their Rock, and the Most High God their saviour. But their lips were false to him, and their tongues were untrue to him;

Give ear to this, O family of Jacob, you who are named by the name of Israel, and have come out of the body of Judah; who take oaths by the name of the Lord, and make use of the name of the God of Israel, but not truly and not in good faith. Verse ConceptseagernessPerjuryProfessingSwearing Oaths FalselyGod Renaming PeopleSwearingListening To Godisrael

And he said, Well did Isaiah say of you, you false ones: These people give me honour with their lips, but their heart is far from me. Verse ConceptsHoliness, Purpose OfLegalismLipsPretenceProfessingLack Of MeaningGod And The HeartMere TalkNamed Prophets Of The LordProphecies concerningHypocritesHypocrisy

So is the end of all who do not keep God in mind; and the hope of the evil-doer comes to nothing: Verse ConceptsHope, Of The WickedFalse HopesCharacter Of Wicked


But the eyes of the evil-doers will be wasting away; their way of flight is gone, and their only hope is the taking of their last breath. Verse ConceptsGod, As JudgeFalse ConfidenceHope, Of The WickedFalse HopesHopelessnessHope, Nature OfDesire For DeathThe Wicked Will PerishStaying Strong And Not Giving Upbreathingexpectations

For what is the hope of the sinner when he is cut off, when God takes back his soul? Verse ConceptsHope, Of The WickedHopelessnessHope, Nature OfUngodlinessFalse HopesWithout HopeDeath Of The WickedHypocrisy

He has said in his heart, I will not be moved: through all generations I will never be in trouble. Verse ConceptsFalse ConfidenceSelf DelusionFalse HopesNot MovedNo Troublerehabilitation

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