Thematic Bible: Examples of piety


Thematic Bible



This Hezekiah did through all Judah; he did what was good and right and true before the Lord his God.


And Jabez made a prayer to the God of Israel, saying, If only you would truly give me a blessing, and make wider the limits of my land, and let your hand be with me, and keep me from evil, so that I may not be troubled by it! And God gave him his desire.








And Daniel, on hearing that the writing had been signed, went into his house; (now he had windows in his room on the roof opening in the direction of Jerusalem;) and three times a day he went down on his knees in prayer and praise before his God, as he had done before.


And one Ananias, a God-fearing man, who kept the law, and of whom all the Jews in that place had a high opinion,


Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him and said of him, See, here is a true son of Israel in whom there is nothing false.








There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. He was without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil.


So now, go in fear of the Lord, and be his servants with true hearts: put away the gods worshipped by your fathers across the River and in Egypt, and be servants of the Lord.


Let us then keep the feast, not with old leaven, and not with the leaven of evil thoughts and acts, but with the unleavened bread of true thoughts and right feelings.






This Hezekiah did through all Judah; he did what was good and right and true before the Lord his God.


And Jabez made a prayer to the God of Israel, saying, If only you would truly give me a blessing, and make wider the limits of my land, and let your hand be with me, and keep me from evil, so that I may not be troubled by it! And God gave him his desire.








And Daniel, on hearing that the writing had been signed, went into his house; (now he had windows in his room on the roof opening in the direction of Jerusalem;) and three times a day he went down on his knees in prayer and praise before his God, as he had done before.




And one Ananias, a God-fearing man, who kept the law, and of whom all the Jews in that place had a high opinion,




Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him and said of him, See, here is a true son of Israel in whom there is nothing false.








There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. He was without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil.


So now, go in fear of the Lord, and be his servants with true hearts: put away the gods worshipped by your fathers across the River and in Egypt, and be servants of the Lord.


Let us then keep the feast, not with old leaven, and not with the leaven of evil thoughts and acts, but with the unleavened bread of true thoughts and right feelings.






This Hezekiah did through all Judah; he did what was good and right and true before the Lord his God.


And Jabez made a prayer to the God of Israel, saying, If only you would truly give me a blessing, and make wider the limits of my land, and let your hand be with me, and keep me from evil, so that I may not be troubled by it! And God gave him his desire.








And Daniel, on hearing that the writing had been signed, went into his house; (now he had windows in his room on the roof opening in the direction of Jerusalem;) and three times a day he went down on his knees in prayer and praise before his God, as he had done before.


And one Ananias, a God-fearing man, who kept the law, and of whom all the Jews in that place had a high opinion,


Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him and said of him, See, here is a true son of Israel in whom there is nothing false.








There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. He was without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil.


Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain