Thematic Bible: Economy


Thematic Bible



They drank the wine and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood and stone. Verse ConceptsGoldIronDrunkenness, Examples OfBrassDrinking WineWood And StoneBronze For Idols

You know that when you were pagans, you were led astray to the speechless idols, however you were led. Verse ConceptsDumbnessMutenessPagansPolytheismCarrying IdolsDumbdiscriminationstatuesHinduism

Has a nation exchanged gods? And they [are] not gods! But my people have exchanged their glory for that which does not profit. Verse ConceptsNegotiationPolytheismExchanging Good For BadGod Bestowing GloryNo Help In Other Gods

For all the gods of the nations [are] idols, but Yahweh made the heavens. Verse ConceptsAstronomyCreation Of The Physical Heavens

Then the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods [to] whom they [are] making smoke offerings, but they will certainly not save them in the time of their trouble. Verse ConceptsGod, As SaviorFalse ReligionemptinessIncense Offered AmissIdolatryThings Which Cannot SaveServing One's Own GodsNo Help In Other Gods

Its land is filled [with] idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what they made [with] their fingers. Verse ConceptsFingersBowingFilling PlacesPolytheismIdol WorshipWorshiping God


For even if after all [there] are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth, just as [there] are many gods and many lords, Verse ConceptsPolytheism

Can a human make for himself gods? Yet they [are] not gods!" Verse ConceptsFalse Religionpeople

And they come to you {as people do}, and they sit {before you}, and my people hear your words, and they do not do them, for they [are] showing passion in their mouth, but their heart [is] going after ill-gotten gain. Now, look! You [are] to them like {a sensual song}, beautiful of voice and {played well on an instrument}, and they hear your words, {but they are not doing them}.



[Like] {impure silver} which overlays an earthen vessel, [so are] smooth lips and an evil heart. Verse ConceptsCoatsNominal ReligionWicked Described AsProfessingArtificialnessOverlaid With SilverShowing Hypocrisy

"And why do you call me 'Lord, Lord,' and do not do what I tell [you]? Verse ConceptsDeception, Forbidden By GodProfessingChrist Is LordCalling


And they remembered that God [was] their rock, and God Most High their redeemer. But they enticed him with their mouth and lied to him with their tongue.

Hear this, house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel and came out from the waters of Judah, who swear by the name of Yahweh, and {invoke} the God of Israel, [but] not in truth and not in righteousness. Verse ConceptseagernessPerjuryProfessingSwearing Oaths FalselyGod Renaming PeopleSwearingListening To Godisrael

So he said to them, "Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written, 'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far, far away from me. Verse ConceptsHoliness, Purpose OfLegalismLipsPretenceProfessingLack Of MeaningGod And The HeartMere TalkNamed Prophets Of The LordProphecies concerningHypocritesHypocrisy

So [are] the paths of all who forget God; and [the] hope of [the] godless will perish, Verse ConceptsHope, Of The WickedFalse HopesCharacter Of Wicked


But [the] eyes of [the] wicked will fail; and refuge will be lost to them, and their hope [is] {to breathe 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] godless when he cuts [them] off, when God takes away his life? Verse ConceptsHope, Of The WickedHopelessnessHope, Nature OfUngodlinessFalse HopesWithout HopeDeath Of The WickedHypocrisy

He says in his heart, "I shall not be moved {throughout all generations}, [during] which [I will have] no trouble." Verse ConceptsFalse ConfidenceSelf DelusionFalse HopesNot MovedNo Troublerehabilitation