Thematic Bible: Effects of


Thematic Bible



But the person who hates his brother is in the darkness and lives in the darkness. He does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

Jesus replied to the crowd, "The light is among you only for a short time. Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness may not overtake you. The person who walks in the darkness is in the darkness and does not know where he is going.


Let's grope along the wall like the blind; let us grope like those who have no eyes. We stumble at midday as if it were twilight, in desolate places like dead people.


No one could see anyone else, nor could anyone get up from his place for three days. But there was light for all the Israelis in their dwellings.






and reconciling both groups to God in one body through the cross, on which he eliminated the hostility. He came and proclaimed peace for you who were far away and for you who were near.





For it is he who is our peace. Through his mortality he made both groups one by tearing down the wall of hostility that divided them.





The words of a gossip are like choice morsels as they descend to the innermost parts of the body.

The words of a gossip are like delicate morsels; they sink down deep within.


I have heard the slander of many; it is like terror all around me, as they conspire together and plot to take my life.

Slanderous men live among you, intent on shedding blood. They've eaten at the top of mountain shrines. They've crafted plans to do evil things among you.






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