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Thematic Bible




Yet David vowed again, saying, “Your father knows well that I have found favor in your sight, and he has said, ‘Do not let Jonathan know this, or he will be grieved.’ But truly as the Lord lives and as your soul lives, there is hardly a step between me and death.” Verse ConceptsLife, Brevity OfThe Frailty Of ManThose Who Did Not TellDeath Of A Father


Thus He remembered that they were but flesh,
A wind that passes and does not return.
Verse ConceptsLife, Brevity OfThe Frailty Of ManDivine SympathyLimitations Of The BodyGod Remembering The NeedyGod Reproving


As when one plows and breaks open the earth,
Our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
Verse ConceptsPloughingThe Frailty Of ManBones


A voice says, “Call out.”
Then he answered, “What shall I call out?”
All flesh is grass, and all its loveliness is like the flower of the field.
Verse ConceptsLife, Brevity OfThe Frailty Of ManMere Men



As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird—
No birth, no pregnancy and no conception!
Verse ConceptsThe Glory Of ManPregnancyWombConceptionBirth Not Being PossibleThose FlyingLosing HonourHaving A Babyflyingteenagerchildbearing



Therefore Sheol has enlarged its throat and opened its mouth without measure;
And Jerusalem’s splendor, her multitude, her din of revelry and the jubilant within her, descend into it.
Verse ConceptsGrave, TheThe Glory Of ManThe Fact Of Death

For thus the Lord said to me, “In a year, as a hired man would count it, all the splendor of Kedar will terminate; Verse ConceptsendThe Glory Of ManOne YearLosing Honour

‘As for you, son of man, will it not be on the day when I take from them their stronghold, the joy of their pride, the desire of their eyes and their heart’s delight, their sons and their daughters, Verse ConceptsThe Glory Of Man

The more they multiplied, the more they sinned against Me;
I will change their glory into shame.
Verse ConceptsSpiritual MalnutritionThe Glory Of ManGrowth Of EvilPeople MultiplyingLeaders SinningLosing Honour

There is a sound of the shepherds’ wail,
For their glory is ruined;
There is a sound of the young lions’ roar,
For the pride of the Jordan is ruined.
Verse ConceptsThe Glory Of ManInadequate ShepherdingWailingPeople Mourning CatastropheLosing Honour

And one of the crowd answered Him, "Teacher, I brought You my son, possessed with a spirit which makes him mute; and whenever it seizes him, it slams him to the ground and he foams at the mouth, and grinds his teeth and stiffens out. I told Your disciples to cast it out, and they could not do it."

The sick man answered Him, “Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I am coming, another steps down before me.” Verse ConceptsFriendlessnessLonelinessWeakness, PhysicalHelplessnessPeople Going BeforeDippingThings ShakingNo Help

Jesus Himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion; and they *woke Him and *said to Him, “Teacher, do You not care that we are perishing?” Verse ConceptsCriticism, against believersDependenceBody Of Christ, Physical BodyLeisure, And PastimesRest, PhysicalSleep, PhysicalWorryBedsPossibility Of DeathBack Of ThingsChrist Waking UpDyingDiscipleship

Seeing them straining at the oars, for the wind was against them, at about the fourth watch of the night He *came to them, walking on the sea; and He intended to pass by them. Verse ConceptsNightPassing ByChrist's Knowledge Of BelieversRowingharassment

A woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years, and had endured much at the hands of many physicians, and had spent all that she had and was not helped at all, but rather had grown worse--

The Lord preserves the simple;
I was brought low, and He saved me.
Verse ConceptsHelpfulnessPoverty, SpiritualGod's Attitude To FoolsProtection From Danger

Since neither sun nor stars appeared for many days, and no small storm was assailing us, from then on all hope of our being saved was gradually abandoned. Verse ConceptsDespair, Description OfHope, Results Of Its AbsencePessimismDark DaysWithout HopeNavigationNatural DisastersFeeling Lost

On the very night when Herod was about to bring him forward, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and guards in front of the door were watching over the prison. Verse ConceptsLeisure, And PastimesSleep, PhysicalGod Is ImmanentIron ChainsDuring One NightTwo Other ThingsTwo Other MenSleeping Peacefullytrailsjail