Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Cities » Figurative
But ye have come to mount Sion, and to the city of the living God, heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels,
And now they feel an ardent desire for a better, that is, a heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed of them to be called their God: for he prepared for them a city.
For he awaited a city having foundations, whose artificer and maker is God.
For here have we no abiding city, but we seek that about to be.
Cities » Perishable nature of
For here have we no abiding city, but we seek that about to be.
death » Preparation for
And if ye call upon the Father, judging without distinction of persons according to the work of each, in fear be occupied in the time of your sojourning:
I must work the works of him having sent me, while it is day: night comes, when none can work.
O Jehovah, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; I shall know how I fail.
In those days Hezekiah was sick to death; and Isaiah son of Amos the prophet will come in to him, and he will say to him, Thus said Jehovah, Command to thy house, for thou art dying, and thou shalt not live.
For whoever shall choose to all the living there is hope: for to a living dog it is good above a dead lion.
For whether we live, to the Lord we live: and whether we die, to the Lord we die: therefore whether we live, and whether we die, we are of the Lord.
For me to live is Christ, and to die gain.
For here have we no abiding city, but we seek that about to be.
Would they were wise! will they look at this? Will they discern to their latter part?
Look away from me, and I shall be cheerful, before I shall go and I not be.
To number our days so make known, and we shall bring the heart to wisdom.
All which thy hand shall find to do, with thy strength, do thou; for no work and understanding and knowledge and wisdom, in hades where thou goest there.
And the light is sweet, and good to the eyes to see the sun: If man shall live many years, in them all shall he rejoice; and he shall remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. All coming is vanity.
For not hades shall praise thee, death celebrate: they going down to the pit shall not hope for thy truth. The living; the living, he shall praise thee, as from me this day the father to the sons shall make known for thy truth.
Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning; And ye like men expecting their Lord, when he shall loose from the nuptials; that having come and knocked, they might quickly open to him. Happy those servants, whom the Lord having come shall find watching; truly I say to you, he will gird himself, and make them recline, and having come he will serve them.
For you should say, If the Lord will, and we live, and should do this, or that.
Life » Lessons of » Pilgrimage, a
Dearly beloved, I beseech as sojourners and strangers, to keep off from fleshly passions, which war against the soul;
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For here have we no abiding city, but we seek that about to be.
And also have I set my covenant with them to give to them the land of Canaan, the land of their sojournings, which they sojourned upon it
According to faith died all these, not having received the promises, but having seen them from afar, and been persuaded, and having embraced, and assented that they are strangers and newly arrived from a foreign country upon earth.
Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and give ear to my cry; thou wilt not be silent at my tears, for I a sojourner with thee, a dweller, as all my fathers.
And Jacob will say to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my sojourning, thirty and a hundred years: little and evil were the days of the years of my life, and they reached not the days of the years of the life of my fathers in their sojournings.
For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers: as a shadow our days upon the earth, and no expectation.
New » The keyword of Hebrews » Jerusalem
And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
But ye have come to mount Sion, and to the city of the living God, heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels,
And now they feel an ardent desire for a better, that is, a heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed of them to be called their God: for he prepared for them a city.
And if any take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his part from the book of life, and from the holy city, and from the things written in this book.
For he awaited a city having foundations, whose artificer and maker is God.
And he brought me away in the spirit upon a mountain great and high, and showed me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,
For here have we no abiding city, but we seek that about to be.
Pleasure » What is pleasing to the lord
Children, listen to parents in all things: for this is pleasing to the Lord.
Verse Concepts
And Balaam will see that it was good in the eyes of Jehovah to praise Israel, and he went not now as before to meet enchantments, and he will set his face to the desert
And I knew, my God, that thou triest the heart, and from uprightness thou wilt delight. I in the uprightness of my heart gave willingly all these: and now thy people were found here; I saw with gladness to show themselves willing to thee.
Returning thanks to the Father, having rendered us fitting for the portion of the lot of the holy in light: Who saved us from the power of darkness, and transferred into the kingdom of the Son of his love: In whom we have redemption by his blood, the remission of sins: read more.
Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation: For by him were all things created, things in the heavens, and things upon earth, things visible and invisible, whether thrones, whether dominions, whether beginnings, whether authorities: all were created by him, and for him: And he is before all, and all things have been established by him. And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that he might be the first in all For in him was he pleased that all fulness should dwell:
Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation: For by him were all things created, things in the heavens, and things upon earth, things visible and invisible, whether thrones, whether dominions, whether beginnings, whether authorities: all were created by him, and for him: And he is before all, and all things have been established by him. And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that he might be the first in all For in him was he pleased that all fulness should dwell:
Wherefore also Jesus, that he might consecrate the people by his own blood, suffered without the camp. Therefore we should come to him without the camp, bearing his reproach. For here have we no abiding city, but we seek that about to be. read more.
By him therefore we should always bring up the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of the lips assenting to his name. And the doing good and mutual participation forget not; for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
By him therefore we should always bring up the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of the lips assenting to his name. And the doing good and mutual participation forget not; for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
Sacrifice » Whose sacrifice shall be accepted by the lord
And the sons of the stranger joining themselves to Jehovah to serve him, and to love the name of Jehovah, to be to him for servants, every one watching the Sabbath from defiling it, and taking hold upon my covenant; And I brought them to my holy mountain, and I made them rejoice in the house of my prayer: their burnt-offerings and their sacrifices for acceptance upon mine altar; for my house shall be called the house of prayer for all the peoples.
Wherefore also Jesus, that he might consecrate the people by his own blood, suffered without the camp. Therefore we should come to him without the camp, bearing his reproach. For here have we no abiding city, but we seek that about to be. read more.
By him therefore we should always bring up the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of the lips assenting to his name. And the doing good and mutual participation forget not; for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
By him therefore we should always bring up the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of the lips assenting to his name. And the doing good and mutual participation forget not; for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
And it shall be at the end of days, and Cain shall bring in from the fruit of the earth an offering to Jehovah. And Abel, he also brought in the first-born of his sheep, and their fat. And Jehovah will look to Abel and to his gift And to Cain and to his offering he looked not: and Cain will be very angry, and his countenance will fall. read more.
And Jehovah will say to Cain, Why art thou angry, and why does thy countenance fall? If thou shalt do well thou shalt be lifted up; and if thou shalt not do well, sin lies at the entrance; and to thee his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
And Jehovah will say to Cain, Why art thou angry, and why does thy countenance fall? If thou shalt do well thou shalt be lifted up; and if thou shalt not do well, sin lies at the entrance; and to thee his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
Seeking God » Includes seeking » The city which God has prepared
For he awaited a city having foundations, whose artificer and maker is God.
For here have we no abiding city, but we seek that about to be.