Thematic Bible: Includes


Thematic Bible




But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed, Verse ConceptsCommitment, to GodHeart, And Holy SpiritTeachingThanksgivingRenewed HeartObedience To GodThanksgiving, OfferedObeying The GospelSubject To EvilAll Have SinnedThank God!doctrine

But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed what he has heard from us?" So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.


Pay careful attention to him and obey his voice; do not rebel against him, for he will not pardon your transgression, for my name is in him Verse ConceptsRebellion, Against Human AuthorityUnforgivenessObedience To GodGod Not ForgivingCalled By God's NameForgiving Yourselfdisobediencerebellionattention

the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you today, Verse ConceptsBlessedBlessing And CurseObedienceBlessings From GodObeying Godcommandmentsobeying

Who gave up Jacob to the looter, and Israel to the plunderers? Was it not the LORD, against whom we have sinned, in whose ways they would not walk, and whose law they would not obey? Verse ConceptsSelf Will

Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine; Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, To GodPeople Of God, In OtReward, DivineSecurityTreasureCautionObedience To GodJews As God's Chosen PeopleResponsibility, Of Natural WorldAll Things Belong To GodRoyal Priesthood

But this command I gave them: 'Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. And walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.' Verse ConceptsCommitment, to Godethics, and graceEarsWalkingObedience To GodI Will Be Their GodObedienceObeying Godobeying

The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. Verse ConceptsTrue ReligionFear God!Keep The Commandments!DutyFearing GodObeying Godcommandmentsreverence


Soldiers also asked him, "And we, what shall we do?" And he said to them, "Do not extort money from anyone by threats or by false accusation, and be content with your wages." Verse ConceptsAggressionGreed, Believers' Response ToOccupationsSatisfactionServants, BadSoldiersWagesWitnesses, FalseContentmentFalse AccusationsEmployersAvoiding ViolenceFalse WaysDo Not StealOne's DeedsBeing Content



For I hear many whispering. Terror is on every side! "Denounce him! Let us denounce him!" say all my close friends, watching for my fall. "Perhaps he will be deceived; then we can overcome him and take our revenge on him." Verse ConceptsFriendlessnessPeace, Human Destruction OfPersecution, Forms OfSympathyWaitingWatchfulness, Of BelieversWatching To EntrapDefamationDeceiving OneselfFear Will ComeFriends FailingMan AvengingUnder One's BreathRevengeterrorism


For I fear that perhaps when I come I may find you not as I wish, and that you may find me not as you wish--that perhaps there may be quarreling, jealousy, anger, hostility, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder. Verse ConceptsBackbitingArguingBitingTumultdisagreementsJealousyPride, Evil OfSectsArgumentsStrifeAbsenceSlanderArrogance, In The ChurchQuarrelsWhispering Of EvilDislikingDisorder In The ChurchAvoiding JealousyProud PeopleCompetitiongossiping


For I fear that perhaps when I come I may find you not as I wish, and that you may find me not as you wish--that perhaps there may be quarreling, jealousy, anger, hostility, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder. Verse ConceptsBackbitingArguingBitingTumultdisagreementsJealousyPride, Evil OfSectsArgumentsStrifeAbsenceSlanderArrogance, In The ChurchQuarrelsWhispering Of EvilDislikingDisorder In The ChurchAvoiding JealousyProud PeopleCompetitiongossiping

slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, Verse ConceptsBackbitingSuperiorityPride, CharacteristicsBoastersDisobedient To ParentsHating GodRespecting Parentshatersdisobediencearrogancegossiping

My enemies say of me in malice, "When will he die, and his name perish?" Verse ConceptsGossipDesire For DeathNames Blotted OutFamily Death

May this be the reward of my accusers from the LORD, of those who speak evil against my life! Verse ConceptsPeople Accusing People

If the serpent bites before it is charmed, there is no advantage to the charmer. Verse ConceptsBabblersSnakebites

You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people, and you shall not stand up against the life of your neighbor: I am the LORD. Verse ConceptsBackbitingGossipInjuryInjustice, Examples OfSlanderSpeech, Negative Aspects OfFalse AccusationsCharacter AssassinationI Am The LordSocial LifeFake Friendsgossiping

Besides that, they learn to be idlers, going about from house to house, and not only idlers, but also gossips and busybodies, saying what they should not. Verse ConceptsBackbitingBusybodiesGossipHabitsIdlenessLeisure, Nature And Purpose OfRumoursSluggardsIdleness Leads ToMeddlingRecreationSloth, Leads ToNot Being StillNot StillMinding Your Own Businessgossiping

Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?


he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions, Verse ConceptsFoolish QuestionsFools, Characteristics OfBackbitingEnvyThe ProudUncharitablenessNot Believing PeopleAvoid QuarrelsMind Battlesrumors


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