Thematic Bible: Happiness of the The Wicked


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Come on now, you people who are saying, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this [or that] city, spend a year there, do business and make some money." [For actually] you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. What is your life? For you are [like] a mist that appears briefly and then vanishes.


You have condemned and murdered the righteous man [i.e., the innocent person, See verse 4] and he does not [even] resist you. Verse ConceptsInnocence, Examples OfMartyrdom, Examples OfRich, TheKilling The InnocentCondemning The InnocentThe Righteous Perishingcondemnation



But Abraham said [to him], 'Son, remember how you enjoyed good things when you were alive [on earth] and how Lazarus had to put up with bad things? But now here [i.e., in the unseen place of departed spirits] he is being comforted and you are in agony. Verse ConceptsLimitednessRiches, Ungodly Use OfDeath Of The Saints, Results InPainful MemoriesReversalsGiving Good ThingsBad SituationsGod Has ComfortedOvercoming Adversity









It is too bad for you people who have plenty to eat now, because you will be hungry [later on]. It is too bad for you people who are laughing now, because you will grieve and cry [later on]. Verse ConceptsLaughterReversalsWoe To The ProsperousFeeding The Poorhunger





And then, on a particular day, Herod, dressed in his royal robes, delivered a speech [to the people] from his throne. The people began shouting, "His is the voice of a god and not a man." Suddenly, an angel from God struck him [with a terrible condition] because he refused to honor God [by what he said in his speech], so he was consumed by worms and died.




The people began shouting, "His is the voice of a god and not a man." Verse ConceptsFlatteryVoicesMen As Godsworms