Thematic Bible: General references to

Then Eli said to her, "How long will you behave like someone [who is] drunk? Put away your wine!" Verse Concepts

You have also set up prophets to proclaim in Jerusalem concerning you, saying, '[There is] a king in Judah.' And now it will be proclaimed to the king according to these words. Now, come and we will plan together." Verse Concepts

But stretch out your hand and touch his bones and his flesh, [and see] {whether} he will {curse} you to your face." Verse Concepts

"Indeed, you have required a pledge from your family for nothing, and you have stripped off [the] clothes of [the] naked. Verse Concepts

{And when} he [was] at the Gate of Benjamin, there [was] {a sentry on duty} whose name [was] Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah, and he seized Jeremiah the prophet, {saying}, "You [are] deserting to the Chaldeans!" Verse Concepts

Blessed are you when they insult you and persecute [you] and say all kinds of evil things against you, lying on account of me. Verse Concepts

And {when he was being accused} by the chief priests and elders he answered nothing. Verse Concepts

So the scribes and the Pharisees were watching closely [to see] if he would heal on the Sabbath, in order that they could find [a reason] to accuse him. Verse Concepts

But [do so] with courtesy and respect, having a good conscience, so that in [the things] in which you are slandered, the ones who malign your good conduct in Christ may be put to shame. Verse Concepts

for their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed blood, Verse Concepts

For they will not sleep if they have not done wrong, and they are robbed of their sleep if they do not cause stumbling. Verse Concepts

a devising heart, plans of deception, feet that hurry to run to evil, Verse Concepts

Their feet run to evil, and they hasten to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts [are] thoughts of iniquity; devastation and destruction [are] in their highways. Verse Concepts

Woe [to] those who plan wickedness and evil deeds upon their beds! In the light of the morning they did it, because they have power in their hands. Verse Concepts

Their feet [are] swift to shed blood; Verse Concepts

Be sober; be on the alert. Your adversary the devil walks around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour. Verse Concepts

And he put on righteousness like breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head, and he put on garments of vengeance [for] clothing, and he wrapped [himself in] zeal as [in a] robe. Verse Concepts

And he said to them, "{Why} were you searching for me? Did you not know that it was necessary [for] me to be in the [house] of my Father?" Verse Concepts

His disciples remembered that it is written, "Zeal for your house will consume me." Verse Concepts

Jesus said to them, "My food is that I do the will of the one who sent me and complete his work. Verse Concepts

It is necessary [for] us to do the deeds of the one who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work! Verse Concepts

Jesus of Nazareth--how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, because God was with him. Verse Concepts

And they came, the men in addition to the women, all [who were] willing of heart; they brought brooches and jewelry rings and signet rings and ornaments--every [variety] of gold object--every man who waved a wave offering of gold for Yahweh, Verse Concepts

So we brought the offering of Yahweh, what each man found, objects of gold, bangles, bracelets, rings, earrings, and female ornaments, to make atonement for ourselves {before} Yahweh." Verse Concepts

I will rejoice greatly in Yahweh; my being shall shout in exultation in my God. For he has clothed me [with] garments of salvation, he has covered me [with the] robe of righteousness, as bridegroom adorns [himself] [with] a head wrap like a priest, and as bride adorns herself [with] her jewelry. Verse Concepts

And the servant brought out silver jewelry and gold jewelry, and garments, and he gave [them] to Rebekah. And he gave precious gifts to her brother and to her mother. Verse Concepts

And a woman will ask from her neighbor and from the woman dwelling as an alien in her house [for] objects of silver and objects of gold and garments, and you will put [them] on your sons and on your daughters; and you will plunder Egypt." Verse Concepts

" 'As for a man who commits adultery with a man's wife, who commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, [both] the man who commits adultery and the woman who commits adultery shall surely be put to death. Verse Concepts

"You shall not commit adultery. Verse Concepts

And [the] eye of [the] adulterer waits for dusk, saying, {'No eye will see me,'} and he places a covering [on his] face. Verse Concepts

"You have heard that it was said, 'Do not commit adultery.' Verse Concepts

Now I say to you that whoever divorces his wife, except on the basis of sexual immorality, and marries another commits adultery, and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery." Verse Concepts

Therefore as a result, if she belongs to another man [while] her husband is living, she will be called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress [if she] belongs to another man. Verse Concepts

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! Neither sexually immoral people, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor passive homosexual partners, nor dominant homosexual partners, Verse Concepts

having eyes full of [desire for] an adulteress and unceasing from sin, enticing unstable persons, [and] having hearts trained for greediness. Accursed children! Verse Concepts

In all their distress, {there was no distress}, and the messenger of his {presence} saved them, in his love and compassion he himself redeemed them, and he lifted them up, and he supported them all [the] days of old. Verse Concepts

For I consider that the sufferings of the present time are not worthy [to be compared] with the glory that is about to be revealed to us. Verse Concepts

And Yahweh said, "Surely I have seen the misery of my people who [are] in Egypt, and I have heard their cry of distress because of their oppressors, for I know their sufferings. Verse Concepts

"A human being born of a woman [is] short of days and full of troubles. Verse Concepts

This [is] my comfort in my misery: that your word preserves my life. Verse Concepts

Trouble and anguish have found me; your commands delight me. Verse Concepts

We are afflicted in every [way], but not crushed; perplexed, but not despairing; Verse Concepts

And Noah began [to be] a man of the ground, and he planted a vineyard. Verse Concepts

And Judah and all of its towns together will live in it, farmers and those who travel with the flocks. Verse Concepts

And I smash [the] shepherd and his flock with you, and I smash [the] farmer and his team with you, and I smash [the] governors and [the] officials with you. Verse Concepts

Therefore, thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, my Lord, "In all [of] the public squares [there will be] wailing, and in all [of] the streets [they will say], 'Alas, alas, alas!' They shall call [the] farmers to mourning and [to] wailing, to those who are skilled [in] lamentation. Verse Concepts

but he will say, "I [am] not a prophet; I am a tiller of the soil, for a man has acquired me since my youth." Verse Concepts

"Listen to another parable: There was a man--a master of a house--who planted a vineyard, and put a fence [around] it, and dug a winepress in it, and built a watchtower, and leased it to tenant farmers, and went on a journey. Verse Concepts

And he sent a slave to the tenant farmers at the proper time, so that he could collect [some] of the fruit of the vineyard from the tenant farmers. Verse Concepts

He will come and destroy those tenant farmers and give the vineyard to others." And [when they] heard [this], they said, "[May this] never happen!" Verse Concepts

The farmer who works hard must [be] the first to receive a share of the crops. Verse Concepts

Therefore be patient, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the soil, being patient concerning it until it receives the early and late rains. Verse Concepts

And Noah began [to be] a man of the ground, and he planted a vineyard. Verse Concepts

And Yahweh God took the man and set him in the garden of Eden to cultivate it and to keep it. Verse Concepts

{Then she bore} his brother Abel. And Abel became a keeper of sheep, and Cain became a tiller of the ground. Verse Concepts

And Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in that [same] year a hundredfold, and Yahweh blessed him. Verse Concepts

Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and you shall gather its yield. Verse Concepts

So he went from there and found Elisha son of Shaphat while he [was] plowing [with] twelve pairs of oxen before him. When he and the twelve passed Elijah, he threw his cloak on him. Verse Concepts

And a messenger came to Job and said, "The oxen were plowing, and the female donkeys were feeding {beside them}. Verse Concepts

He who works his land will have plenty of food, but he who follows worthless things lacks {sense}. Verse Concepts

And he built towers in the desert and hewed many cisterns, for he had much livestock, both in the Shephelah and on the plain, [along with] farmers and vinedressers in the hills and in the fertile lands, for he loved the soil. Verse Concepts

And over those who did the work in the field to till the soil [was] Ezri the son of Kelub. Verse Concepts

So he went from there and found Elisha son of Shaphat while he [was] plowing [with] twelve pairs of oxen before him. When he and the twelve passed Elijah, he threw his cloak on him. Verse Concepts

And Noah began [to be] a man of the ground, and he planted a vineyard. Verse Concepts

{Then she bore} his brother Abel. And Abel became a keeper of sheep, and Cain became a tiller of the ground. Verse Concepts

And he told a parable to them, saying, "The land of a certain rich man yielded an abundant harvest. Verse Concepts

Now Ahab son of Omri became king over Israel in the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah. Ahab son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty-two years. Verse Concepts

Elijah the Tishbite from Tishbe of Gilead said to Ahab, "{As Yahweh lives}, the God of Israel before whom I stand, there shall surely not be dew nor rain these years {except by my command}." Verse Concepts

Ahab said to Obadiah, "Go through the land to all the springs of water and to all the wadis. Perhaps we may find green grass that we may keep horses and mules alive and that we might not lose any of the animals." Verse Concepts

Then Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. Verse Concepts

He sent messengers to the city to Ahab king of Israel. Verse Concepts

Truly, there was no one like Ahab who had sold himself by doing evil in the eyes of Yahweh, whose wife Jezebel urged him on. Verse Concepts

and the king of Israel said to his servants, "Do you know Ramoth-Gilead belongs to us, and we [are] doing nothing about taking it from the hand of the king of Aram?"

Then he found another man and said, "Strike me, please," so the man struck him sharply and wounded him.

Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria, and Jehu wrote letters, and he sent them to Samaria to the officials of Jezreel, to the elders and to the guardians of Ahab, saying, Verse Concepts

Know then that {the word of Yahweh will not fail} which Yahweh spoke concerning the house of Ahab; Yahweh has done what he spoke by the hand of his servant Elijah. Verse Concepts

And wealth and glory [are] from you, and you rule over all. And in your hand [is] power and might. And in your hand [is power] to make great and to give strength to all. Verse Concepts

But even still, you yourself go, do! Be strong for the battle [else] God will make you stumble before the enemy! For there is power with God to help and to cause stumbling." Verse Concepts

By his power he stilled the sea, and by his understanding he struck down Rahab. Verse Concepts

Once God has spoken; twice I have heard this: that strength [belongs] to God. Verse Concepts

[who] established the mountains by his strength, [the one who] is girded with might, Verse Concepts

[Mightier] than the rumblings of many waters, [mightier] than [the] mighty breakers of [the] sea, Yahweh on high [is] mighty. Verse Concepts

Yahweh is slow to anger but great [in] power; he will certainly not allow [the guilty] to go unpunished. {He marches} in storm wind and in gale; storm clouds [are the] dust of his feet. Verse Concepts

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Now [as he] was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew, throwing a casting net into the sea (for they were fishermen). Verse Concepts

And so then he departed from the synagogue [and] came into the house of Simon and Andrew with James and John. Verse Concepts

And [as] he was sitting on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately, Verse Concepts

Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two who heard John and followed him. Verse Concepts

One of his disciples, Andrew the brother of Simon Peter, said to him, Verse Concepts

Philip went and told Andrew. Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus.

And when they had entered, they went up to the upstairs room where they were staying--Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James [son] of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot and Judas [son] of James. Verse Concepts

And David said to Saul, "Your servant has been a shepherd of the flock for his father. If the lion or the bear would come and carry off a sheep from the group, Verse Concepts

And Samson and his father and mother went down to Timnah, and they came to the vineyards of Timnah, and suddenly a young lion [came] roaring to meet him. Verse Concepts

When he left, a lion found him on the road and killed him, and his dead body [was] thrown on the road with the donkey standing beside it, and the lion [was] standing by the dead body. Verse Concepts

Then the king got up at daybreak, at first light, and he went {in haste} to {the lion pit}. Verse Concepts

Now a certain Jew {named} Apollos, {a native} Alexandrian, arrived in Ephesus--an eloquent man who was well-versed in the scriptures. Verse Concepts

And it happened that [while] Apollos was in Corinth, Paul traveled through the inland regions [and] came to Ephesus and found some disciples. Verse Concepts

But I say this, that each of you is saying, "I am with Paul," and "I [am] with Apollos," and "I [am] with Cephas," and "I [am] with Christ." Verse Concepts

For whenever anyone says, "I am with Paul," and another, "I [am] with Apollos," are you not [merely] human? Verse Concepts

Now concerning Apollos our brother, I urged him many [times] that he should come to you with the brothers, and he was not at all willing that he should come now, but he will come whenever he has [an] opportunity. Verse Concepts

Diligently send on their way Zenas the lawyer and Apollos, so that {they may lack nothing}. Verse Concepts

As far as Absalom, there was not a more handsome man in all of Israel to admire so much; from the sole of his foot up to his crown, there was no physical defect on him. Verse Concepts

He had a son whose name was Saul, a young and handsome man. There was not a man from the {Israelites} more handsome than he [was]; from his shoulders up, he was taller than all the people. Verse Concepts

{When they came}, he saw Eliab and said, "Surely his anointed one [is] before Yahweh!" Verse Concepts

And [when he] saw from a distance a fig tree that had leaves, he went [to see] if perhaps he would find anything on it. And [when he] came up to it he found nothing except leaves, because it was not the season for figs. Verse Concepts

And because [he] was practicing the same trade, he stayed with them and worked, for they were tentmakers by trade. Verse Concepts

{These} he gathered together, and the workers occupied with such things, [and] said, "Men, you know that from this business {we get our prosperity}, Verse Concepts

And the sound of harpists and musicians and flute players and trumpeters will never be heard in you again! And every craftsman of every trade will never be found in you again! And the sound of a mill will never be heard in you again! Verse Concepts

Now John himself had his clothing made from camel's hair and a belt made of leather around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey. Verse Concepts

Then the disciples of John approached him, saying, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples do not fast?" Verse Concepts

which [things] {although they have}, to be sure, an appearance of wisdom in self-made religion and humility and unsparing treatment of the body, {do not have any value} against the indulgence of the flesh. Verse Concepts

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: [that] you abstain from sexual immorality; Verse Concepts

And God made two lights, the greater light to rule the day and the smaller light to rule the night, and the stars. Verse Concepts

and with [the] choice things of [the] fruits of the [the] sun, and with the choice things of [the] yield of [the] {seasons}, Verse Concepts

And the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, until [the] nation took vengeance [on] its enemies. Is it not written in the scroll of Jashar? The sun stood still in the middle of the heaven and was not in haste to set for about a full day. Verse Concepts

He made [the] moon for appointed times; [the] sun knows its [time for] setting. Verse Concepts

And the full moon will be ashamed and the sun will be ashamed, for Yahweh of hosts will rule on {Mount Zion} and in Jerusalem, and before his elders [in] glory. Verse Concepts

The sun will be changed to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the coming of the great and awesome day of Yahweh. Verse Concepts

Who is the liar except the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This person is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son. Verse Concepts

{With bald-faced pride} [the] wicked will not seek [God]. There is no God in any of his thoughts. Verse Concepts

[The] fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt. They do abominable deeds. There is none who does good. Verse Concepts

An oracle: the wicked has rebellion in the midst of his heart. There is no fear of God before his eyes. Verse Concepts

Or else I will be satisfied and will deny [him] and say "Who [is] Yahweh?" Or I will be poor and will steal and profane the name of my God. Verse Concepts

"They have denied Yahweh, and have said, 'Not he, {for} evil will not come on us, we will see neither sword nor famine. Verse Concepts

And wealth and glory [are] from you, and you rule over all. And in your hand [is] power and might. And in your hand [is power] to make great and to give strength to all. Verse Concepts

But even still, you yourself go, do! Be strong for the battle [else] God will make you stumble before the enemy! For there is power with God to help and to cause stumbling." Verse Concepts

By his power he stilled the sea, and by his understanding he struck down Rahab. Verse Concepts

Once God has spoken; twice I have heard this: that strength [belongs] to God. Verse Concepts

[who] established the mountains by his strength, [the one who] is girded with might, Verse Concepts

[Mightier] than the rumblings of many waters, [mightier] than [the] mighty breakers of [the] sea, Yahweh on high [is] mighty. Verse Concepts

Yahweh is slow to anger but great [in] power; he will certainly not allow [the guilty] to go unpunished. {He marches} in storm wind and in gale; storm clouds [are the] dust of his feet. Verse Concepts

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And Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord together with his whole household. And many of the Corinthians, [when they] heard about [it], believed and were baptized. Verse Concepts

And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a large number who believed turned to the Lord. Verse Concepts

So those who accepted his message were baptized, and on that day about three thousand souls were added. Verse Concepts

Only men from Asher, Manasseh, and Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem. Verse Concepts

When all the people saw, they fell on their faces and said, "Yahweh, he [is] God! Yahweh, he [is] God!" Verse Concepts

While Ezra was praying and confessing, weeping and throwing himself down before the house of God, a very great assembly of men, women, and children from Israel gathered to him. And the people wept bitterly. Verse Concepts

And the crowds were asking him, saying, "What then should we do?" Verse Concepts

Now from that town many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman who testified, "He told me everything that I have done." Verse Concepts

And the crowds with one mind were paying attention to what was being said by Philip, [as] they heard [him] and saw the signs that he was performing. Verse Concepts

And all those who lived [in] Lydda and Sharon saw him, who [all] indeed turned to the Lord. Verse Concepts

Take words with you, and return to Yahweh. Say to him, "Take away all guilt; accept good, and we will offer the fruit of our lips. Verse Concepts

Then [the] lame shall leap like the deer, and [the] tongue of [the] dumb shall sing for joy, for waters shall break forth in the wilderness and streams in the desert. Verse Concepts

Let us test and examine our ways; let us return to Yahweh. Verse Concepts

He will revive us after two days; on the third day he will raise us up, that we may live in his presence. Verse Concepts