Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Boasting » What not to boast of
Boast not yourself of tomorrow; for you know not what a day may bring forth.
Come now, you that say, Today or tomorrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: Whereas you know not what shall be tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away. For you ought to say, If the Lord wills, we shall live, and do this, or that. read more.
But now you rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
But now you rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
death » Preparation for
And if you call on the Father, who without respect of persons judges according to every man's work, pass the time of your exile here in fear:
I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night comes, when no man can work.
LORD, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, } Thus says the LORD, { Set your house in order; for you shall die, and not live.
For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away, and be no more.
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
Whatsoever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, where you go.
Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun: But if a man lives many years, and rejoices in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.
For the grave cannot praise you, death can not celebrate you: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for your truth. The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known your truth.
Let your waists be girded about, and your lamps burning; And you yourselves be like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he comes and knocks, they may open unto him immediately. Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he comes shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to eat, and will come forth and serve them.
For you ought to say, If the Lord wills, we shall live, and do this, or that.
Evil » What is evil
Come now, you that say, Today or tomorrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: Whereas you know not what shall be tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away. For you ought to say, If the Lord wills, we shall live, and do this, or that. read more.
But now you rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
But now you rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
And the LORD smelled a sweet odor; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more everything living, as I have done.
For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed themselves out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? I the LORD search the heart, I test the mind, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
The schemes also of the schemer are evil: he devises wicked plans to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaks justly.
And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Verse Concepts
This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceeds from the ruler: Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place. I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.
God » Will of, submission to » The rule of every-day life
And the world passes away, and the lust thereof: but he that does the will of God abides forever.
For you ought to say, If the Lord wills, we shall live, and do this, or that.
natural Life » Described as » Uncertain
Come now, you that say, Today or tomorrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: Whereas you know not what shall be tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away. For you ought to say, If the Lord wills, we shall live, and do this, or that.
The Surrendered life » Submission to the divine will » The rule of every-day life
And the world passes away, and the lust thereof: but he that does the will of God abides forever.
For you ought to say, If the Lord wills, we shall live, and do this, or that.
Will » God's, submission to » The rule of every-day life
And the world passes away, and the lust thereof: but he that does the will of God abides forever.
For you ought to say, If the Lord wills, we shall live, and do this, or that.