Thematic Bible: Economy


Thematic Bible



As they drank wine, they 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 often led astray by speechless idols, however you were led. Verse ConceptsDumbnessMutenessPagansPolytheismCarrying IdolsDumbdiscriminationstatuesHinduism

Has a nation ever changed its gods (even though they are not really gods at all)? But my people have exchanged me, their glorious God, for a god that cannot help them at all! Verse ConceptsNegotiationPolytheismExchanging Good For BadGod Bestowing GloryNo Help In Other Gods

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

Then those living in the towns of Judah and in Jerusalem will go and cry out for help to the gods to whom they have been sacrificing. However, those gods will by no means be able to save them when disaster strikes them. Verse ConceptsGod, As SaviorFalse ReligionemptinessIncense Offered AmissIdolatryThings Which Cannot SaveServing One's Own GodsNo Help In Other Gods

Their land is full of worthless idols; they worship the product of their own hands, what their own fingers have fashioned. Verse ConceptsFingersBowingFilling PlacesPolytheismIdol WorshipWorshiping God


If after all there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many gods and many lords), Verse ConceptsPolytheism

Can people make their own gods? No, what they make are not gods at all." Verse ConceptsFalse Religionpeople

They come to you in crowds, and they sit in front of you as my people. They hear your words, but do not obey them. For they talk lustfully, and their heart is set on their own advantage. Realize that to them you are like a sensual song, a beautiful voice and skilled musician. They hear your words, but they do not obey them.



Like a coating of glaze over earthenware are fervent lips with an evil heart. Verse ConceptsCoatsNominal ReligionWicked Described AsProfessingArtificialnessOverlaid With SilverShowing Hypocrisy

"Why do you call me 'Lord, Lord,' and don't do what I tell you? Verse ConceptsDeception, Forbidden By GodProfessingChrist Is LordCalling


They remembered that God was their protector, and that the sovereign God was their deliverer. But they deceived him with their words, and lied to him.

Listen to this, O family of Jacob, you who are called by the name 'Israel,' and are descended from Judah, who take oaths in the name of the Lord, and invoke the God of Israel -- but not in an honest and just manner. Verse ConceptseagernessPerjuryProfessingSwearing Oaths FalselyGod Renaming PeopleSwearingListening To Godisrael

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 from me. Verse ConceptsHoliness, Purpose OfLegalismLipsPretenceProfessingLack Of MeaningGod And The HeartMere TalkNamed Prophets Of The LordProphecies concerningHypocritesHypocrisy

Such is the destiny of all who forget God; the hope of the godless perishes, Verse ConceptsHope, Of The WickedFalse HopesCharacter Of Wicked



For what hope does the godless have when he is cut off, when God takes away his life? Verse ConceptsHope, Of The WickedHopelessnessHope, Nature OfUngodlinessFalse HopesWithout HopeDeath Of The WickedHypocrisy

He says to himself, "I will never be upended, because I experience no calamity." Verse ConceptsFalse ConfidenceSelf DelusionFalse HopesNot MovedNo Troublerehabilitation

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