Thematic Bible: Fields of activity


Thematic Bible



Yet when I considered all the effort which I expended and the toil with which I toiled to do, then behold, "Everything [is] vanity and chasing wind! There is nothing profitable under the sun!" Verse ConceptsAchievementPhysical LabourdissatisfactionUseless EndeavourUnder The SunSuccess And Hard Work

Why do you weigh out money for [what is] not food, and your labor for {what cannot satisfy}? Listen carefully to me, and eat [what is] good, and let your soul take pleasure in {rich} food. Verse ConceptsSpiritual FoodemptinessdissatisfactionPleasurePhysical LabourUnprofitable SinsBeing UnsatisfiedBuying FoodNo FoodPay Attention To God!FinancesMoney Blessingsenergy

Sometimes a man is all alone with no companion; he also has neither son nor brother. Yet there is no end to all his toil, and his eye is not satisfied with wealth. [He laments,] "For whom am I toiling and depriving {myself} of pleasure?" This also [is] vanity--it is an unhappy business! Verse ConceptsEnjoyment, Lack OfAffluenceDiscontentPhysical LabourBeing UnsatisfiedUseless EndeavourToiling In VainFamily And Friends


What does a person gain in all his toil with which he toils under the sun? Verse ConceptsPhysical LabourToiling In VainUnder The SunQuestioning Life


This also [is] a grievous illness. Exactly as he came, so he will go. What profit [does] he gain for all his toil for the wind? Verse ConceptsBad SituationsPhysical LabourLife And DeathTragedy

Look! [Is it] not from Yahweh of hosts that people labor for mere fire, and nations exhaust themselves for mere vanity? Verse ConceptsFutilityPhysical LabourBurning CitiesUseless LabourToiling In VainCaused By God

Yes, I ask also you, true yokefellow, help them, who struggled along with me in the gospel with both Clement and the rest of my fellow workers whose names [are] in the book of life. Verse ConceptsFellowship, In Christian ServiceAliancesBook of lifeHelpfulnessLoyaltyYokesWhat Heaven Will Be LikePeople HelpingUnconditional LoveHelping Those In Needpartnership


Greet Mary, who {has worked hard} for you. Verse ConceptsWomenThose Who Toiled

His mother used to make for him a small robe and take it to him {year by year} whenever she came up with her husband to offer the {annual sacrifice}. Verse ConceptsGesturesFaithfulness, In Human RelationshipsMaternal LoveChildren, needs ofLove, And The WorldRobesDressPeople Giving ClothesEvery Yearmoms

So they carried him and brought him to his mother; he sat on her lap until noon and then died. Verse ConceptsMaternal LoveLove, And The WorldPeople Sitting DownDeath Of Unnamed IndividualsDeath Of A ChildDeath Of A Mother

Now at that time Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, [was] judging Israel. Verse ConceptsDeborahLeaders, PoliticalRankWomenProphetessNamed WivesWomen Working

The warriors ceased; they failed to appear in Israel, until I, Deborah, arose; I arose [as] a mother in Israel. Verse ConceptsDeborahVillagesSpiritual Mothers

Then Abigail {quickly took} two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five prepared sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred raisin cakes, and two hundred fig cakes, and she put [them] on the donkeys. Verse ConceptsFoodFig treeGrainRaisinsSheepWeights And Measures, DryFigsOne HundredThe Number Two HundredDried FruitQuantities Of WineHasty ActionOther Volume Measures

And every woman [who was] skilled of heart with her hands they spun, and they brought yarn--the blue and the purple, the crimson and the fine linen. Verse ConceptsLinenSkillSpinning And WeavingRed MaterialBlue ClothPurple ClothSkilled PeopleBlue Purple And ScarletWomen Working

Now in Joppa there was a certain female disciple {named} Tabitha (which translated means "Dorcas"). She was full of good deeds and charitable giving which she was constantly doing. Verse ConceptsActs of KindnessExploitationsAttitudes, to other peopleGood WorksPoverty, Attitudes TowardsPoverty, Remedies ForAlmsgivingAltruismCharityMeaningDeer Etc.Helping OthersHelping The PoorDeerHelping Others In Needmakeup

And every woman [who was] skilled of heart with her hands they spun, and they brought yarn--the blue and the purple, the crimson and the fine linen. Verse ConceptsLinenSkillSpinning And WeavingRed MaterialBlue ClothPurple ClothSkilled PeopleBlue Purple And ScarletWomen Working