Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Bridle » Figurative
and your arrogance have reached My ears,
I will put My hook in your nose
and My bit in your mouth;
I will make you go back
the way you came.
For the choir director, for Jeduthun. A Davidic psalm.I said, “I will guard my ways
so that I may not sin with my tongue;
I will guard my mouth with a muzzle
as long as the wicked are in my presence.”
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so that I may not sin with my tongue;
I will guard my mouth with a muzzle
as long as the wicked are in my presence.”
If anyone thinks he is religious without controlling his tongue, then his religion is useless and he deceives himself.
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Deception » Who deceives themselves
For if anyone considers himself to be something when he is nothing, he is deceiving himself. But each person should examine his own work, and then he will have a reason for boasting in himself alone, and not in respect to someone else.
But be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. Because if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his own face in a mirror; for he looks at himself, goes away, and right away forgets what kind of man he was. read more.
But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom and perseveres in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer who acts-this person will be blessed in what he does. If anyone thinks he is religious, without controlling his tongue but deceiving his heart, his religion is useless.
But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom and perseveres in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer who acts-this person will be blessed in what he does. If anyone thinks he is religious, without controlling his tongue but deceiving his heart, his religion is useless.
If we say, “We have no sin,” we are deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
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Deception » Of self » An unbridled tongue
If anyone thinks he is religious without controlling his tongue, then his religion is useless and he deceives himself.
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Doer » Of the word
He said, “Even more, those who hear the word of God and keep it are blessed!”
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For the hearers of the law are not righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be declared righteous. So, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, instinctively do what the law demands, they are a law to themselves even though they do not have the law. They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts. Their consciences testify in support of this, and their competing thoughts either accuse or excuse them
But now finish the task as well, that just as there was eagerness to desire it, so there may also be a completion from what you have.
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But be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. Because if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his own face in a mirror; for he looks at himself, goes away, and right away forgets what kind of man he was. read more.
But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom and perseveres in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer who acts-this person will be blessed in what he does. If anyone thinks he is religious, without controlling his tongue but deceiving his heart, his religion is useless. Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom and perseveres in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer who acts-this person will be blessed in what he does. If anyone thinks he is religious, without controlling his tongue but deceiving his heart, his religion is useless. Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
Don’t criticize one another, brothers. He who criticizes a brother or judges his brother criticizes the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.
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Evil » Speech evil speaking » The tongue to be restrained
If anyone thinks he is religious without controlling his tongue, then his religion is useless and he deceives himself.
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and to see good days
must keep his tongue from evil
and his lips from speaking deceit,
and your lips from deceitful speech.
the one who opens his lips invites his own ruin.
character of the unrenewed Heart » Deceived
If anyone thinks he is religious without controlling his tongue, then his religion is useless and he deceives himself.
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His deceived mind has led him astray,
and he cannot deliver himself,
or say, “Isn’t there a lie in my right hand?”
Slander » Men shall give account for
If anyone thinks he is religious without controlling his tongue, then his religion is useless and he deceives himself.
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Social duties » Of home-keeping » Of restraining the tongue
If anyone thinks he is religious without controlling his tongue, then his religion is useless and he deceives himself.
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and to see good days
must keep his tongue from evil
and his lips from speaking deceit,
and your lips from deceitful speech.
the one who opens his lips invites his own ruin.
Speaking, evil » The tongue to be restrained
If anyone thinks he is religious without controlling his tongue, then his religion is useless and he deceives himself.
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and to see good days
must keep his tongue from evil
and his lips from speaking deceit,
and your lips from deceitful speech.
the one who opens his lips invites his own ruin.
Speech/communication » Those that do not keep their tongue
If anyone thinks he is religious without controlling his tongue, then his religion is useless and he deceives himself.
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the one who opens his lips invites his own ruin.
Vanity » The religion of hypocrites is
If anyone thinks he is religious without controlling his tongue, then his religion is useless and he deceives himself.
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