Thematic Bible: Increment
Thematic Bible
Sins » Increment » Misery
The fools, because of the way of their rebellion, and because of their iniquities, were afflicted.
The wicked man travails with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden from the violent.
Come now, Oh ye rich, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed, for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me and no longer answers me neither by prophets nor by dreams; therefore, I have called thee that thou may make known unto me what I shall do.
In the morning thou shalt say, I wish it were evening, and in the evening thou shalt say, I wish it were morning! For the fear of thine heart with which thou shalt fear and for that which thine eyes shall see.
Good understanding brings forth grace: but the way of transgressors is hard.
Tribulation and anguish shall be upon every human soul that does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek;
Wherever they went out, the hand of the LORD was against them for evil, as the LORD had said and as the LORD had sworn unto them; and thus they were greatly distressed.
destruction and misery are in their ways,
Sins » Increment » Origin
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was desirable to the eyes, and a tree of covetousness to understand, she took of its fruit and ate and gave also unto her husband with her; and he ate.
Behold, the pain of my iniquity has caused me to writhe; my mother conceived me so that sin might be removed from me.
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
Then when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin; and sin, when it is finished, brings forth death.
Where do the wars and disputes come from among you? From here that is to say, of your lusts which fight in your members?
Sins » Increment » Illustrated in the life of backsliders
Certainly, if having separated themselves from the contaminations of the world, by the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they again entangle themselves therein and are overcome, their latter end is made worse for them than the beginnings.
Then it goes and takes with itself seven other spirits worse than itself, and they enter in and dwell there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it also be unto this wicked generation.
Sins » Increment » Seen in the history of israel
and said, O my God, I am confused and ashamed to lift up my face to thee, my God, for our iniquities have multiplied over our head, and our guiltiness is grown up unto heaven.
They are become fat; they shine; yea, they overpass in deeds of wickedness; they did not judge the cause, the cause of the fatherless; with all this they made themselves prosperous; and they did not judge the cause of the poor.
Sins » Increment » Will become more evident in the last days
But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.
Sins » Increment » Shown by increasing insensitiveness of the spiritual faculties
for this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and should understand with their heart and should be converted, and I should heal them.
Sins » Increment » The steps in peter's fall illustrate
Then he began to curse and to swear, saying, I know not the man. And immediately a cock crew.