Thematic Bible: Economy
Thematic Bible
FALSE » Economy » God's
As they drank the wine, they praised gods of gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.
You know that when you were unbelievers, you were enticed and led astray to worship idols that couldn't even speak.
Has a nation ever changed gods when they aren't even gods? But my people have exchanged their glory for that which does not profit.
For all of the gods of the other nations are mere idols, but the LORD fashioned the heavens!
The towns of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods to whom they burn incense, but they'll be no help at all to them in the time of their disaster.
Their land is filled with idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their own fingers have made.
However, in the past, when you did not know God, you were slaves to things that are not really gods at all.
For even if there are "gods" in heaven and on earth (as indeed there are many so-called "gods" and "lords"),
FALSE » Economy » Profession of religion
Then they come to you as a group, sit down right in front of you as if they were my people, hear your words and then they don't do what you say because they're seeking only their own desires, they pursue ill-gotten profits, and they keep following their own self-interests. As far as they are concerned, you sing romantic songs with a beautiful voice and play a musical instrument well. They'll listen to what you have to say, but they won't put it into practice!
They claim to know God, but they deny him by their actions. They are detestable, disobedient, and disqualified to do anything good.
"Not everyone who keeps saying to me, "Lord, Lord,' will get into the kingdom from heaven, but only the person who keeps doing the will of my Father in heaven.
A clay vessel plated with a thin veneer of silver that's what smooth lips with a wicked heart are.
Little children, we must stop expressing love merely by our words and manner of speech; we must love also in action and in truth.
Then they remembered that God was their rock, and the Most High God was their deliverer. But they deceived him with their mouths; they lied to him with their tongues.
"Listen to this, house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, and who have come forth from Judah's loins; you who swear oaths in the name of the LORD and invoke the God of Israel but not in truth, nor in good faith.
He told them, "Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites. As it is written, "These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.
FALSE » Economy » Hopes
Such are the paths of everyone who forgets God the hope of the godless will be destroyed:
What the righteous hope for brings joy, but the expectation of the wicked dies.
But what the wicked look for will fail; their way of escape will be taken away from them; their only hope is to take their final breath."
For where is the hope of the godless when he is eliminated; when God takes away his life?
They say to themselves, "We will not be moved throughout all time, and we will not experience adversity."