Thematic Bible: Evil people


Thematic Bible



who by the Holy Spirit, through the mouth of our father David Your servant, said,
Why did the Gentiles rage,
And the peoples devise futile things?
Verse ConceptsMinistry, Nature OfMouthsTrapThe Holy Spirit, And ScriptureWhat Foreigners DoSpeaking By The SpiritAngry With GodSpeaking The Word God Gives


Why are the nations in an uproar
And the peoples devising a vain thing?
Verse ConceptsFutilityOutsidersRageEvil PlansHeathenWhat Foreigners DoUseless Words And Thinking

Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him,
And what would we gain if we entreat Him?’
Verse ConceptsPrayerlessnessProfitsSkepticismCharacter Of WickedWho Is God?Serving God

You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we have kept His charge, and that we have walked in mourning before the Lord of hosts? Verse ConceptsFutilityProfitsUseless ReligionServing Godimprovement



And when he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood;
His heart gathers wickedness to itself;
When he goes outside, he tells it.
Verse ConceptsFaultsSinful HeartsHeart, Fallen And RedeemedSpreading Storiesgossiping

“When you cry out, let your collection of idols deliver you.
But the wind will carry all of them up,
And a breath will take them away.
But he who takes refuge in Me will inherit the land
And will possess My holy mountain.”
Verse ConceptsFalse ReligionFalse ConfidenceemptinessTrust, Importance OfLight As ChaffSalvation By Other Things

So He brought their days to an end in futility
And their years in sudden terror.
Verse ConceptsDeath As PunishmentUseless EndeavourFear Will ComeSpilling Your Seed On The Groundterrorism

“They have sown wheat and have reaped thorns,
They have strained themselves to no profit.
But be ashamed of your harvest
Because of the fierce anger of the Lord.”
Verse ConceptsHarvestProfitsSin, Effects OfSowing And ReapingThornsWheatUnprofitable SinsNot Reaping What You SowToiling In Vain

He who sows iniquity will reap vanity,
And the rod of his fury will perish.
Verse Conceptsevil, warnings againstSeedDestinySowing And ReapingFruits Of SinReapingInjusticeReaping What You Sow

“Surely every man walks about as a phantom;
Surely they make an uproar for nothing;
He amasses riches and does not know who will gather them.
Verse ConceptsBusynessFutilityWealthHuman IgnoranceRest, PhysicalRiches, Ungodly Use OfTreasureCare, WorldlyCovetousness, Nature ofNot Knowing The FutureDrawbacks To Richesgathering

So this I say, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, Verse ConceptsConformityThe Carnal MindWorldly Pleasures, Characteristic Of The WickedNot Imitating EvilUseless PeopleWhat Foreigners Are LikeGentiles

O Lord, my strength and my stronghold,
And my refuge in the day of distress,
To You the nations will come
From the ends of the earth and say,
“Our fathers have inherited nothing but falsehood,
Futility and things of no profit.”
Verse ConceptsFutilityAfflicted SaintsConversion, examples ofFalse GodsGod, The RockIdolatry, Objections ToUseless ThingsMission, Of IsraelRefugeesGod Being Our RefugeVanityGod Our StrengthThe Gospel To The NationsFamily Strength

An idiot will become intelligent
When the foal of a wild donkey is born a man.
Verse ConceptsColtsWicked Described AsWorldly WisdomWild DonkeysWise ProverbsWisdom

“For He knows false men,
And He sees iniquity without investigating.
Verse ConceptsGod, All knowingUseless People

For speaking out arrogant words of vanity they entice by fleshly desires, by sensuality, those who barely escape from the ones who live in error, Verse ConceptsFutilityFaultsemptinessEloquenceCharmdesiresTemptation, Sources OfEnticersBoastersAllurements Of SinWantonnessLiving For The MaterialEnticingUseless WordsEscaping From PeopleEvil DesiresError

Thus says the Lord,
What injustice did your fathers find in Me,
That they went far from Me
And walked after emptiness and became empty?
Verse ConceptsFutilityFalse ReligionIdolatry, Objections ToPrayerlessnessSyncretismWord Of GodEstrangementVanityBeing Found OutUseless PeopleIs God Unjust?

He plans wickedness upon his bed;
He sets himself on a path that is not good;
He does not despise evil.
Verse ConceptsEvil WaysImagination, Evil SchemingEvil PlansBedsEvil DevicesMischiefPlottingContinuing In SinStaying Positive

O sons of men, how long will my honor become a reproach?
How long will you love what is worthless and aim at deception? Selah.
Verse ConceptsFalse GodsUseless ThingsTrust, Lack OfAvoiding DeceitLoving EvilPsalm Interjections