Thematic Bible: Indulgence of children, examples of


Thematic Bible



He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, going in the ways of his father and his mother, and in the ways of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who made Israel do evil.

And she, at her mother's suggestion, said, Give me here on a plate the head of John the Baptist.

And I said to their children in the waste land, Do not be guided by the rules of your fathers or keep their orders or make yourselves unclean with their images:

He went in the ways of the family of Ahab, for his mother was his teacher in evil-doing.

But they have been walking in the pride of their hearts, going after the Baals, as their fathers gave them teaching.

These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Judah, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they have given up the law of the Lord, and have not kept his rules; and their false ways, in which their fathers went, have made them go out of the right way.


A man who is a lover of wisdom is a joy to his father: but he who goes in the company of loose women is a waster of wealth.



My son, be wise and make my heart glad, so that I may give back an answer to him who puts me to shame.

And get the fat young ox and put it to death, and let us have a feast, and be glad. For this, my son, who was dead, is living again; he had gone away from me, and has come back. And they were full of joy.




And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me that part of your property which will be mine. And he made division of his goods between them. And not long after, the younger son got together everything which was his and took a journey into a far-away country, and there all his money went in foolish living.


And you are to say to him that I will send punishment on his family for ever, for the sin which he had knowledge of; because his sons have been cursing God and he had no control over them.




Now all his life his father had never gone against him or said to him, Why have you done so? and he was a very good-looking man, and younger than Absalom.


Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain