Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Character » Instability of
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse the hands, ye sinful; and purify the hearts, ye double souled.
Having eyes full of an adulteress, not ceasing from sin; decoying unstable souls: having a heart exercised with covetousness; children of a curse:
The sower went out to sow his seed; and in his sowing, some truly fell by the way, and was trodden down, and the fowls of heaven devoured it. And other fell upon a rock; and having brought forth, was dried up, for it had no moisture. And other fell in the midst of thorns; and the thorns grew together and choked it. read more.
And other fell upon good earth; and having brought forth, made fruit, a hundredfold. Saying these, he called out, He having ears to hear, let him hear. And his disciples asked him, saying, What may this parable be? And he said, To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: and to the rest in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand. And this is the parable: The seed is the word of God. And they by the way are they hearing; then comes the devil, and takes away the word from their heart, lest having believed, they should be saved. And they upon the rock, who, when they hear, with joy receive the word; and they have no root, who for a time believe, and in time of trial fly away. And that having fallen into thorns, and they are they having heard, and with cares and riches, and pleasures of life going forth, are choked, and bring not to maturity. And that in the good earth, they are they which, in a fair and good heart, having heard, keep the word, and bring forth fruit with patience.
And other fell upon good earth; and having brought forth, made fruit, a hundredfold. Saying these, he called out, He having ears to hear, let him hear. And his disciples asked him, saying, What may this parable be? And he said, To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: and to the rest in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand. And this is the parable: The seed is the word of God. And they by the way are they hearing; then comes the devil, and takes away the word from their heart, lest having believed, they should be saved. And they upon the rock, who, when they hear, with joy receive the word; and they have no root, who for a time believe, and in time of trial fly away. And that having fallen into thorns, and they are they having heard, and with cares and riches, and pleasures of life going forth, are choked, and bring not to maturity. And that in the good earth, they are they which, in a fair and good heart, having heard, keep the word, and bring forth fruit with patience.
Why wilt thou despise greatly to do the second time thy way? also thou shalt be ashamed of Egypt as thou wert ashamed of Assur.
What shall I do to thee, O Ephraim? What shall I do to thee, O Judah? and your kindness as the cloud of the morning, and as the dew being early went away.
As the bird wandering from her nest, so is a man wandering from his place.
My son, fear thou Jehovah and the king: thou shalt not intermingle with those changing: For suddenly shall their calamity rise, and who shall make known the misfortune of them two?
Ephraim will mingle himself among my people; Ephraim was a cake not turned.
Their heart was divided; now shall they be guilty: he will break down their altars, he shall lay waste their images
And one scribe, coming near, said to him, Teacher, I will follow thee wherever thou goest. And Jesus says to him, The foxes have dens, and the fowls of heaven occupy nests; but the Son of man has not where he might recline the head. And another of his disciples said to him, Lord, permit me first to go and inter my father. read more.
But Jesus said to him, Follow me; and let the dead inter the dead.
But Jesus said to him, Follow me; and let the dead inter the dead.
Every one hearing, and not understanding, the evil one comes, and carries off that sown in his heart. This is he having sown by the way. And he having sown upon rocky places, this is he hearing the word, and quickly with joy receiving it; And has no root in himself, but is for a time; and there being pressure or expulsion for the word, straightly is he offended. read more.
And he having sown among thorns, this is he hearing the word; and the care of this time, and the deceit of riches, choke the word, and it is unfruitful.
And he having sown among thorns, this is he hearing the word; and the care of this time, and the deceit of riches, choke the word, and it is unfruitful.
And these are they by the way, where the word is sown; and when they hear, quickly comes Satan, and takes away the word sown in their hearts. And these are likewise they sown upon stony places; who, when they hear, quickly with joy receive it; And have no root in themselves, but are temporary; then pressure having been or expulsion for the word, quickly are they scandalized. read more.
And these are they sown in thorns; these are they hearing the word. And the cares of this time, and the deceit of riches, and eager desires about remaining things, coming in, choke the word, and it is unfruitful.
And these are they sown in thorns; these are they hearing the word. And the cares of this time, and the deceit of riches, and eager desires about remaining things, coming in, choke the word, and it is unfruitful.
And he said to another, Follow me. And he said, Lord, permit me having gone, first to inter my father. And Jesus said to him, Permit the dead to inter their own. dead; and thou, having gone, announce the kingdom of God. And another said, I will follow thee, Lord; and first permit me to take leave of those in my house. read more.
And Jesus said to him, No one putting his hand upon the plough, and looking back, is adapted to the kingdom of God.
And Jesus said to him, No one putting his hand upon the plough, and looking back, is adapted to the kingdom of God.
That we be no more babes, tossed about, and carried around by every wind of doctrine, in the playing at dice of men, in craft, with the artifice of deceit;
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And let him ask in faith, being at variance in nothing. For he being at variance is like the surge of the sea being moved by the wind and put in motion. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. A man divided in opinion unsteady in all his ways.
Heart » The unregenerate » Is double (duplicity)
From Zebulon coming forth to the army, setting the battle in array with all the utensils of war, fifty thousand to set in order, with not a heart and a heart.
And it was when the Lord will complete all his work upon mount Zion and upon Jerusalem, I will review upon the fruit of the great heart of the king of Assur and upon the glory of his eyes lifted up.
Happy the man fearing always: and he hardening his heart shall fall into evil
Their heart was divided; now shall they be guilty: he will break down their altars, he shall lay waste their images
A man divided in opinion unsteady in all his ways.
And let him ask in faith, being at variance in nothing. For he being at variance is like the surge of the sea being moved by the wind and put in motion.
They will speak vanity each with his neighbor: smooth lips, with a heart and a heart will they speak
And the people shall know, all they of Ephraim and the inhabitants of Shomeron, in pride and in greatness of heart, saying,
character of the unrenewed Heart » Divided
Their heart was divided; now shall they be guilty: he will break down their altars, he shall lay waste their images
Idolatry » Prophecies relating to
Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob shall be expiated; and this all the fruit to remove his sin; in his setting all the stones of the altar as stones of lime broken in pieces, the statues and images shall not stand up.
And behold, here came a chariot, a man, a pair of horsemen. And he will answer and say, She fell, Babel fell; and the carved images of her god he brake in pieces to the earth.
And I reviewed over Bel in Babel, and brought forth his swallowing from his mouth: and the nations shall no more flow to him: also the wall of Babel fell.
In that day man shall cast the nothings of his silver and the nothings of his gold which they made for him to worship, to the digging of moles and to bats.
The burden of Egypt Behold, Jehovah riding upon a swift cloud and coming to Egypt: and the vanities of Egypt moved to and fro from his face, and the heart of Egypt will melt in its midst
Their heart was divided; now shall they be guilty: he will break down their altars, he shall lay waste their images
They are vanity, the work of delusions: in the time of their reviewing they shall perish.
And it was in that day, says Jehovah of armies, I will cut off the names of the images from the land, and they shall be remembered no more: and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.
And I passed over in the land of Egypt in this night, and I struck every first-born in the land of Egypt from man even to quadruped: and against all the gods of Egypt I will do judgments: I Jehovah.
And the Egyptians burying whom Jehovah smote among them, all the first-born: and upon their gods Jehovah did judgments.
God being terrible to them, for he made lean all the gods of the earth; and they shall worship to him each from his place, all the isles of the nations.
In that day shall the man look upon him making him, and his eyes shall look to the Holy One of Israel And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, and what his fingers made he shall not see, and the statues and the images.
For in that day they shall reject a man the vanities of his silver, and the vanities of his gold which your hands made for you to sin.
Thus shall ye say to them, The gods who made not the heavens and the earth shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.
For this, behold, the days coming and I reviewed upon the carved images of Babel: and all her land shall be ashamed, and all her wounded shall fall in her midst
For this, behold, the days coming, says Jehovah, and I reviewed upon her carved images: and in all her land the wounded shall groan.
And he will say to me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I shall dwell there in the midst of the sons of Israel forever, and the house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name, they and their kings by their fornication, and by the corpses of their kings in their heights. In their giving their threshold with my thresholds, and their door-post by my door-posts, and the wall between me and between them, and they defiled my holy name with their abominations which they did: and consuming them in my anger. Now they shall put far off their fornication, and the corpses of their kings, from me, and I dwelt in the midst of them forever.
And I cut off thy carved images and thy statues from the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thy hands.
Love » For Christ » Grown cold
And because anxiety shall increase, the love of many shall be cooled.
But I have against thee, for thou hest let go thy first love.
Their heart was divided; now shall they be guilty: he will break down their altars, he shall lay waste their images
Go and call in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus said Jehovah, I remembered for thee the kindness of thy youth, the love of thy completion, thy going after me in the desert in a land not, sown.
Lukewarmness » Figurative
But I have against thee, for thou hest let go thy first love.
What shall I do to thee, O Ephraim? What shall I do to thee, O Judah? and your kindness as the cloud of the morning, and as the dew being early went away.
And they will bend their tongue, their bow, a lie: and they were not strong for faithfulness upon the land; for from evil to evil they went forth, and they knew me not, says Jehovah.
Their heart was divided; now shall they be guilty: he will break down their altars, he shall lay waste their images
Watch and pray, lest ye come into temptation: truly the spirit of a ready will, and the flesh weak.
Ye went not up into the breaches, and ye will wall in the wall upon the house of Israel to stand in the war in the day of Jehovah.
How thy heart languished, says the Lord Jehovah, in thy doing all these, the work of a woman, an imperious harlot;
Thus said Jehovah of armies, saying, This people said the time was not come, the time of the house of Jehovah to be built
Is the time for you, O ye, to dwell in your covered houses, and this house a waste? And now, thus said Jehovah of armies: Set your hearts upon your ways Ye sowed much and brought in little; eating and not being satisfied; ye drank, and not drinking to the full; putting on clothing, and not being warm to him; and he hiring out, hires out for a purse perforated. read more.
Thus said Jehovah of armies: Set your hearts upon your ways. Go up to the mountain and bring wood, and build the house, and I will delight in it, and I shall be honored, said Jehovah. Looking for much, and behold, to little; and ye brought to the house and I blew upon it For what? says Jehovah of armies. Because of mine house that it was laid waste, and ye run each to his house. For this the heavens over you were shut up from dew, and the earth withheld her produce. And I will call the drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the grain, and upon the new wine and upon the new oil, and upon what the earth shall bring forth, and upon man and upon cattle, and upon all the labor of the hands.
Thus said Jehovah of armies: Set your hearts upon your ways. Go up to the mountain and bring wood, and build the house, and I will delight in it, and I shall be honored, said Jehovah. Looking for much, and behold, to little; and ye brought to the house and I blew upon it For what? says Jehovah of armies. Because of mine house that it was laid waste, and ye run each to his house. For this the heavens over you were shut up from dew, and the earth withheld her produce. And I will call the drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the grain, and upon the new wine and upon the new oil, and upon what the earth shall bring forth, and upon man and upon cattle, and upon all the labor of the hands.
And now, set now your heart from this day and upward, before setting stone upon stone in the temple of Jehovah. Who were ye coming to the heap of twenty and it was ten? coming to the wine-vat to draw fifty of the wine-press, and there was twenty?
Be watching, and make firm the remaining things, which are about to die: For I have not found thy works perfected before God.
I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor boiling: I would thou shouldest be cold or boiling. For so thou art tepid, and neither cold nor boiling, I am about to vomit thee out of my month.
Service » Half-hearted » Israel
Their heart was divided; now shall they be guilty: he will break down their altars, he shall lay waste their images