Thematic Bible


Thematic Bible














You must recognize them by their fruits. People do not pick grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles, do they? Verse ConceptsBearing Bad FruitThornsFigsThistlesDistinguishingpersonality





For every tree is known by its fruit. People do not pick figs from thornbushes, or gather grapes from a bramble-bush. Verse ConceptsThornsWeedsBramblesDistinguishingRecognising Things

In them is verified the truth of the proverb, "A dog turns back to what he has vomited"; and of that other proverb, "A sow that has washed herself goes back to wallow in the mire." Verse ConceptsdogsWicked Described AsDegradationSwinePigsUnclean SpiritsOld SayingsUnclean AnimalsBacksliderspork


And the ground for the sentence is this, that the light has come into the world, and yet, because their actions were evil, men have loved darkness more than the light. For anyone who is in the habit of doing wrong hates the light, and to keep his actions from being reproved, he does not come out into the daylight.




in which He went and preached to the spirits in prison, who had once been disobedient, while God's patience was awaiting in the days when Noah was preparing an ark, in which a few people-- eight, to be exact -- were brought safely through the water.