Thematic Bible: Effects of


Thematic Bible



But the one who hates his brother is in the darkness, walks in the darkness, and doesn’t know where he’s going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

Jesus answered, “The light will be with you only a little longer. Walk while you have the light so that darkness doesn’t overtake you. The one who walks in darkness doesn’t know where he’s going.


We grope along a wall like the blind;
we grope like those without eyes.
We stumble at noon as though it were twilight;
we are like the dead among those who are healthy.


One person could not see another, and for three days they did not move from where they were. Yet all the Israelites had light where they lived.






[He did this so] that He might reconcile both to God in one body through the cross and put the hostility to death by it. When [Christ] came, He proclaimed the good news of peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near.










A gossip’s words are like choice food
that goes down to one’s innermost being.

A gossip’s words are like choice food
that goes down to one’s innermost being.


I have heard the gossip of many;
terror is on every side.
When they conspired against me,
they plotted to take my life.

There are men within you who slander in order to shed blood. People who live in you eat at the mountain shrines; they commit immoral acts within you.




a lying witness who gives false testimony,
and one who stirs up trouble among brothers.


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