Thematic Bible


Thematic Bible



The person who gathers wealth by unjust means is like the partridge that broods over eggs but does not hatch them. Before his life is half over he will lose his ill-gotten gains. At the end of his life it will be clear he was a fool." Verse ConceptsFools, Characteristics OfManipulationInjustice, Examples OfMaterialism, As An Aspect Of SinMoney, Stewardship OfProfitsRich, TheRiches, Ungodly Use OfBusiness EthicsBirds, Figurative UseUnjust GainDishonesty CondemnedAnimal ReproductionPartridgesFoolish PeopleMisrepresentationGetting RichFools


"'Sure to be judged is the king who builds his palace using injustice and treats people unfairly while adding its upper rooms. He makes his countrymen work for him for nothing. He does not pay them for their labor. Verse ConceptsDishonesty, Kinds OfInjustice, Nature And Source OfLeaders, PoliticalMastersRiches, Dangers OfServants, Working Conditions OfWagesUnjust GainDishonesty CondemnedEmployersPresumptuous PlansWoe To The WickedInjustice

Better to have a little with righteousness than to have abundant income without justice. Verse ConceptsMoney, Stewardship OfPoverty, SpiritualProfitsBusiness EthicsUnjust GainLittle FoodTreasure In HeavenInjustice


The one who increases his wealth by increasing interest gathers it for someone who is gracious to the needy. Verse ConceptsCreditorsGreed, Condemnation OfInterestKindnessMoney, Stewardship OfUnjust GainBlessings For Those Who Help The PoorChargeSaving Moneyinvestingpity

"'See, I strike my hands together at the dishonest profit you have made, and at the bloodshed they have done among you. Verse ConceptsExtortionUnjust GainCommerceBeating OneselfKilling Many People



Come now, you rich! Weep and cry aloud over the miseries that are coming on you. Your riches have rotted and your clothing has become moth-eaten. Your gold and silver have rusted and their rust will be a witness against you. It will consume your flesh like fire. It is in the last days that you have hoarded treasure! read more.
Look, the pay you have held back from the workers who mowed your fields cries out against you, and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. You have lived indulgently and luxuriously on the earth. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.




So he went and worked for one of the citizens of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs. He was longing to eat the carob pods the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything.




Does the one who makes the human ear not hear? Does the one who forms the human eye not see? Verse ConceptsDeafnessHearingGod HearingGod Seeing All The EarthThe Faculty Of HearingGod Pays Attention



In my distress I called to the Lord; I called to my God. From his heavenly temple he heard my voice; he listened to my cry for help. Verse ConceptsFace Of GoddiscouragementHearingPrayer In DiscouragementStressVoicesDistressI PrayThe Temple In HeavenGod Paid Attention To Me





Does the one who makes the human ear not hear? Does the one who forms the human eye not see? Verse ConceptsDeafnessHearingGod HearingGod Seeing All The EarthThe Faculty Of HearingGod Pays Attention



In my distress I called to the Lord; I called to my God. From his heavenly temple he heard my voice; he listened to my cry for help. Verse ConceptsFace Of GoddiscouragementHearingPrayer In DiscouragementStressVoicesDistressI PrayThe Temple In HeavenGod Paid Attention To Me


"'Sure to be judged is the king who builds his palace using injustice and treats people unfairly while adding its upper rooms. He makes his countrymen work for him for nothing. He does not pay them for their labor. Verse ConceptsDishonesty, Kinds OfInjustice, Nature And Source OfLeaders, PoliticalMastersRiches, Dangers OfServants, Working Conditions OfWagesUnjust GainDishonesty CondemnedEmployersPresumptuous PlansWoe To The WickedInjustice


So they provided money for the masons and carpenters, and food, beverages, and olive oil for the people of Sidon and Tyre, so that they would bring cedar timber from Lebanon to the seaport at Joppa, in accord with the edict of King Cyrus of Persia. Verse ConceptsCraftsmenCedarCarpentersMasonsBarteringMediterranean SeaAsking PermissionRaftsCedar WoodMoney For The Temple


And after agreeing with the workers for the standard wage, he sent them into his vineyard. Verse ConceptsAgreeing For GoodMoney, Uses OfNegotiationCoinsAgreeingOnce A Day


The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have wronged the poor and needy; they have oppressed the foreigner who lives among them and denied them justice. Verse ConceptsAliens, God's AttitudeExtortion, Examples OfAbuse Of Authority, Warnings AgainstOppression, Nature OfOutsidersUnkindnessOppression, Examples OfPoor, The Wicked Response ToOppressing ForeignersOppressorsNot Helping The Poor

They made their lives bitter by hard service with mortar and bricks and by all kinds of service in the fields. Every kind of service the Israelites were required to give was rigorous. Verse ConceptsBricksOppression, Examples OfTroubling Groups Of PeopleBitternessSuccess And Hard Work


Now a wife of one of the prophets appealed to Elisha for help, saying, "Your servant, my husband is dead. You know that your servant was a loyal follower of the Lord. Now the creditor is coming to take away my two boys to be his servants." Verse ConceptsCreditLonelinessPoverty, Causes OfPoverty, Attitudes TowardsRiches, Believers AttitudesSchool Of ProphetsServanthood, In SocietySlavery, In OtSuffering, HardshipOppression, Examples OfCreditorsFear Of God, Examples OfDebtorsWidowsSons Of The ProphetsTwo SonsActual WidowsslaveryGodly WomanDebtSchoolBeing A Woman Of GodLeaving Parents For Spouse

So I again considered all the oppression that continually occurs on earth. This is what I saw: The oppressed were in tears, but no one was comforting them; no one delivers them from the power of their oppressors. Verse ConceptsOppression, Examples OfComfortless LivesWeariness Of LifeOppressorsNo ComfortUnder The Sunoppressionoverworking


But you must require of them the same quota of bricks that they were making before. Do not reduce it, for they are slackers. That is why they are crying, 'Let us go sacrifice to our God.' Verse ConceptsOppression, Examples OfNumbers ReducingNo Reduction

Then there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews. Verse ConceptsOppression, Examples OfOutcry

Indeed Israel is the vineyard of the Lord who commands armies, the people of Judah are the cultivated place in which he took delight. He waited for justice, but look what he got -- disobedience! He waited for fairness, but look what he got -- cries for help! Verse ConceptsGarden, NaturalGod, Will OfHorticultureNeglectOppression, Examples OfMetaphorical VineyardsKilling The InnocentOutcryGardens


Listen to this message, you cows of Bashan who live on Mount Samaria! You oppress the poor; you crush the needy. You say to your husbands, "Bring us more to drink!" Verse ConceptsCowsThe NeedyLeisure, Nature And Purpose OfOppression, Nature OfSuffering, Nature OfPoor, The Wicked Response ToAlcohol ConsumptionGetting WineWomen Doing WrongNot Helping The Poorwomanhood

But you are always thinking and looking for ways to increase your wealth by dishonest means. Your eyes and your heart are set on killing some innocent person and committing fraud and oppression. Verse ConceptsDeceitful HeartsAbuse Of Authority, Warnings AgainstHeart, Fallen And RedeemedOppression, Nature OfProfitsSelf IndulgenceInnocent BloodSheddingKilling The InnocentOppressorsCovetousnessDishonestyoppression



They have treated father and mother with contempt within you; they have oppressed the foreigner among you; they have wronged the orphan and the widow within you. Verse ConceptsAliens, God's AttitudeAbuse Of Authority, Warnings AgainstOppression, God's Attitude ToOrphansParentsWidowsWicked Children, Regard To ParentsChildren, UngratefulOppressing ForeignersOppressorsNot Helping WidowsNot Honouring Parents


If you see the extortion of the poor, or the perversion of justice and fairness in the government, do not be astonished by the matter. For the high official is watched by a higher official, and there are higher ones over them! Verse ConceptsOppressorsAuthorityNot Helping The PoorInjusticeoppressionsurprises



The one who reaps receives pay and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that the one who sows and the one who reaps can rejoice together. Verse ConceptsCropsServants, Working Conditions OfThe Soul Winners JoyEntering LifeReaperseternity



For the scripture says, "Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain," and, "The worker deserves his pay." Verse ConceptsEmploymentMastersMinistry, In The ChurchThreshingWord Of GodMuzzlingOxenBinding As AnimalsScripture SaysSpecial RevelationRewardWorth




Look away from him and let him desist, until he fulfills his time like a hired man. Verse ConceptsHiringHirelingsLeave Them Alone


Now to the one who works, his pay is not credited due to grace but due to obligation. Verse ConceptsReward, HumanServants, Working Conditions OfOne's DeedsRighteousness imputedDebtWorking For GodWork Ethicworking

"'If your brother becomes impoverished with regard to you so that he sells himself to you, you must not subject him to slave service. He must be with you as a hired worker, as a resident foreigner; he must serve with you until the year of jubilee, but then he may go free, he and his children with him, and may return to his family and to the property of his ancestors.

You must not oppress a lowly and poor servant, whether one from among your fellow Israelites or from the resident foreigners who are living in your land and villages. You must pay his wage that very day before the sun sets, for he is poor and his life depends on it. Otherwise he will cry out to the Lord against you, and you will be guilty of sin.

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"Does not humanity have hard service on earth? Are not their days also like the days of a hired man? Like a servant longing for the evening shadow, and like a hired man looking for his wages,

Do not take gold, silver, or copper in your belts, no bag for the journey, or an extra tunic, or sandals or staff, for the worker deserves his provisions.






The person who gathers wealth by unjust means is like the partridge that broods over eggs but does not hatch them. Before his life is half over he will lose his ill-gotten gains. At the end of his life it will be clear he was a fool." Verse ConceptsFools, Characteristics OfManipulationInjustice, Examples OfMaterialism, As An Aspect Of SinMoney, Stewardship OfProfitsRich, TheRiches, Ungodly Use OfBusiness EthicsBirds, Figurative UseUnjust GainDishonesty CondemnedAnimal ReproductionPartridgesFoolish PeopleMisrepresentationGetting RichFools


"'Sure to be judged is the king who builds his palace using injustice and treats people unfairly while adding its upper rooms. He makes his countrymen work for him for nothing. He does not pay them for their labor. Verse ConceptsDishonesty, Kinds OfInjustice, Nature And Source OfLeaders, PoliticalMastersRiches, Dangers OfServants, Working Conditions OfWagesUnjust GainDishonesty CondemnedEmployersPresumptuous PlansWoe To The WickedInjustice

Better to have a little with righteousness than to have abundant income without justice. Verse ConceptsMoney, Stewardship OfPoverty, SpiritualProfitsBusiness EthicsUnjust GainLittle FoodTreasure In HeavenInjustice


The one who increases his wealth by increasing interest gathers it for someone who is gracious to the needy. Verse ConceptsCreditorsGreed, Condemnation OfInterestKindnessMoney, Stewardship OfUnjust GainBlessings For Those Who Help The PoorChargeSaving Moneyinvestingpity

"'See, I strike my hands together at the dishonest profit you have made, and at the bloodshed they have done among you. Verse ConceptsExtortionUnjust GainCommerceBeating OneselfKilling Many People



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