Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Backsliding » Guilt and consequences of
And Jesus said to him, No one, having put his hand to the plow and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.
Therefore a lion out of the forest shall kill them, and a wolf of the deserts shall rob them; a leopard shall watch over their cities. Everyone who goes out from them shall be torn in pieces, because their sins are many and their backslidings are multiplied.
For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and you shall fall by the sword. Because you have turned away from Jehovah, therefore Jehovah will not be with you.
And those who turn aside to their crooked ways, Jehovah shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity; peace shall be on Israel.
But your iniquities have come between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, from hearing.
Therefore judgment is far from us; nor does justice overtake us. We wait for light, but behold, dimness; for brightness, but we walk in darkness. We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes. We stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in deserted places like dead men. We all roar like bears, and mourn grievously like doves; we look for judgment, but none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
Why has this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a never-ending backsliding? They hold fast to deceit; they refuse to return.
You have forsaken Me, says Jehovah; you have gone backward; therefore I will stretch out My hand against you, and destroy you; I am weary with repenting.
Blindness » Example of spiritual
We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes. We stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in deserted places like dead men.
But if your eye is evil, your whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
Let them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?
(But their thoughts were blinded; for until the present the same veil remains on the reading of the old covenant, not taken away.) But this veil has been done away in Christ.
in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving ones, so that the light of the glorious gospel of Christ (who is the image of God) should not dawn on them.
Verse Concepts
SatanticDarkness, As A Symbol Of SinSpiritual Blindness, Results Of SinPresent Evil AgeFalse ReligionCommitment, to the worldevil, origins ofevangelism, nature ofSpiritual Blindness, Consequences OfSatan, Titles ForHeart, Fallen And RedeemedImagination, Evil SchemingImage Of GodLikenessPerfection, DivineRevelation, In NtRevelation, Necessity OfRevelation, Responses ToSatan, As DeceiverSatan, Kingdom OfSpiritual Warfare, Causes Of
Spiritual Warfare, Enemies InUnbelief, Nature And Effects OfUnbelieversCultsCharacter Of WickedNames And Titles For SatanUnbelief, Sourced InChrist, Names ForControlling Your ThoughtsSatan, Power OfShiningPrincehood Of SatanThe Light Of ChristBlindingChrist's Own GloryOther BlindingGlory of ChristSpiritual DarknessAgeSatan As The Prince Of This World
having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart.
Verse Concepts
Spiritual DeathDarkness, As A Symbol Of SinFall Of Man, Consequences OfCommunicationGod, Revelation OfHardness Of HeartHeart, Fallen And RedeemedLonelinessReconciliation, Of The World To GodSalvation, Necessity And Basis OfStubbornness, Consequences OfUnbelief, Nature And Effects OfVeilsApathyCharacter Of WickedNations DescribedIgnorance Towards God, Leads ToInsensibilityEstrangement
For he in whom these things are not present is blind and cannot see afar off and has forgotten that he was purged from his sins in the past.
But he who hates his brother is in darkness, and walks in darkness, and does not know where he is going, because darkness has blinded his eyes.
Conscience » Guilty
Trouble and pain shall terrify him; they shall overpower him, as a king ready for the battle;
For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful looking for judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
And king Herod heard of Him (for His name had become well-known,) and he said that John the Baptist had been raised from the dead, and therefore mighty works operate in him.
Then he who had betrayed Him, seeing that He was condemned, sorrowing, Judas returned the thirty pieces of silver again to the chief priests and elders, saying, I have sinned, betraying innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? You see to that. And he threw the pieces of silver down in the temple and departed. And he went and hanged himself.
The wicked flee when no man pursues; but the righteous are bold as a lion.
how much more shall the blood of Christ (who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God) purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
And hearing, and being convicted by conscience, they went out one by one, beginning at the oldest, until the last. And Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.
To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving-kindness; according to the multitude of Your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions. Wash me completely from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For I confess my transgressions; and my sin is ever before me. read more.
Against You, You only, have I sinned, and done evil in Your sight; that You might be justified when You speak, and be clear when You judge.
Against You, You only, have I sinned, and done evil in Your sight; that You might be justified when You speak, and be clear when You judge.
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which You have broken may rejoice. Hide Your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. read more.
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from Your presence, and take not Your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit. Then I will teach transgressors Your ways; and sinners shall be converted to You. Deliver me from the guilt of shedding blood, O God, O God of my salvation, and my tongue shall sing aloud of Your righteousness.
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from Your presence, and take not Your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit. Then I will teach transgressors Your ways; and sinners shall be converted to You. Deliver me from the guilt of shedding blood, O God, O God of my salvation, and my tongue shall sing aloud of Your righteousness.
Therefore judgment is far from us; nor does justice overtake us. We wait for light, but behold, dimness; for brightness, but we walk in darkness. We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes. We stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in deserted places like dead men. We all roar like bears, and mourn grievously like doves; we look for judgment, but none; for salvation, but it is far off from us. read more.
For our transgressions are multiplied before You, and our sins testify against us. For our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them; in transgressing and lying against Jehovah, and going away from our God, talking cruelty and revolt, conceiving and speaking from the heart words of falsehood. And justice is driven back, and justice stands afar off; for truth has fallen in the street, and right cannot enter.
For our transgressions are multiplied before You, and our sins testify against us. For our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them; in transgressing and lying against Jehovah, and going away from our God, talking cruelty and revolt, conceiving and speaking from the heart words of falsehood. And justice is driven back, and justice stands afar off; for truth has fallen in the street, and right cannot enter.
At that time Herod the tetrarch heard of the fame of Jesus and said to his servants, This is John the Baptist. He has risen from the dead, and therefore the powerful works are working in him.
And hearing this, they were stabbed in the heart, and said to Peter and to the other apostles, Men, brothers, what shall we do?
speaking lies in hypocrisy, being seared in their own conscience,
To the pure all things are pure. But to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure, but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
Darkness » Effects of » Causes us to stumble
We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes. We stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in deserted places like dead men.
The Dead » Illustrative of » A state of deep affliction, &c
We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes. We stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in deserted places like dead men.
For the enemy has pursued my soul; he has beaten my life down to the ground; he has made me dwell in darkness, as those long dead.
free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom You remember no more; and by Your hand they are cut off.
Isaiah » Prophecies, reproofs, and exhortations of » Foretells calamities to judah
Therefore judgment is far from us; nor does justice overtake us. We wait for light, but behold, dimness; for brightness, but we walk in darkness. We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes. We stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in deserted places like dead men. We all roar like bears, and mourn grievously like doves; we look for judgment, but none; for salvation, but it is far off from us. read more.
For our transgressions are multiplied before You, and our sins testify against us. For our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;
For our transgressions are multiplied before You, and our sins testify against us. For our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;
Spiritual » Blindness » Examples of
We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes. We stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in deserted places like dead men.
But if your eye is evil, your whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
Let them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?
(But their thoughts were blinded; for until the present the same veil remains on the reading of the old covenant, not taken away.) But this veil has been done away in Christ.
in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving ones, so that the light of the glorious gospel of Christ (who is the image of God) should not dawn on them.
Verse Concepts
SatanticDarkness, As A Symbol Of SinSpiritual Blindness, Results Of SinPresent Evil AgeFalse ReligionCommitment, to the worldevil, origins ofevangelism, nature ofSpiritual Blindness, Consequences OfSatan, Titles ForHeart, Fallen And RedeemedImagination, Evil SchemingImage Of GodLikenessPerfection, DivineRevelation, In NtRevelation, Necessity OfRevelation, Responses ToSatan, As DeceiverSatan, Kingdom OfSpiritual Warfare, Causes Of
Spiritual Warfare, Enemies InUnbelief, Nature And Effects OfUnbelieversCultsCharacter Of WickedNames And Titles For SatanUnbelief, Sourced InChrist, Names ForControlling Your ThoughtsSatan, Power OfShiningPrincehood Of SatanThe Light Of ChristBlindingChrist's Own GloryOther BlindingGlory of ChristSpiritual DarknessAgeSatan As The Prince Of This World
having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart.
Verse Concepts
Spiritual DeathDarkness, As A Symbol Of SinFall Of Man, Consequences OfCommunicationGod, Revelation OfHardness Of HeartHeart, Fallen And RedeemedLonelinessReconciliation, Of The World To GodSalvation, Necessity And Basis OfStubbornness, Consequences OfUnbelief, Nature And Effects OfVeilsApathyCharacter Of WickedNations DescribedIgnorance Towards God, Leads ToInsensibilityEstrangement
For he in whom these things are not present is blind and cannot see afar off and has forgotten that he was purged from his sins in the past.
But he who hates his brother is in darkness, and walks in darkness, and does not know where he is going, because darkness has blinded his eyes.