Thematic Bible: Lessons of


Thematic Bible







For whoever wants to preserve his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for me will preserve it. Verse ConceptsLove, Abuse OfLossMartyrdom, Qualities OfRestitutionSelf SacrificeKeeping Oneself AliveLosing One's LifeThe Surrendered life


For every day I live I am being given up to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus may be visible in my mortal nature. So it is death that operates in my case, but life that operates in yours.

For you have died, and your life now lies hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our true life, shall make his appearance, then you also will appear glorified with him.



And he called in ten of his slaves and gave them each twenty dollars and told them to trade with it while he was gone. Verse ConceptsGiving, Of TalentsTradeAppropriationTen PeopleLarge DenominationsSpecific Sums Of MoneyEternal PerspectiveBusinessFinancesTalentsGifts And Talentsinvesting



They should first be tested, and afterward, if there is no fault to be found with them, they can serve as assistants. Verse ConceptsBeing FirstCharacterPraising Specific PeopleTestsServing The Churchfitness



Now he said this to test him, for he knew what he meant to do. Verse ConceptsChrist Knowing About HimselfIdentityIdentity In ChristTestsexamstrying


for we have no permanent city here on earth, but we are in search of the city that is to come. Verse ConceptsDecayCitySociety, Positive Aspects OfDeath, Preparation ForCitizens, HeavenlyThe Future AgeCity Of GodCitizensseeking


All these people lived all their lives in faith, and died without receiving what had been promised; they only saw it far ahead and welcomed the sight of it, recognizing that they themselves were only foreigners and strangers here on earth. Verse ConceptsExamples Of FaithForeignersBeing A PilgrimBelieversAdventureGod's PromisesWaitingYear Of JubileeFaith, Object OfPilgrimsSaints, As PilgrimsPilgrims, Examples OfSeeing At A DistanceExploits Of FaithReckoned As ForeignersPromises concerningKeeping FaithPromisesHaving FaithAliensdistanceheroesconfessingperformance







For whoever lacks these qualities is blind or near-sighted, and has forgotten that he has been cleansed from his former sins. Verse ConceptsBacksliding, CausesLackPast, TheDefective VisionForgetting ThingsBeing Cleansed From SinThe Pastcleansingpastpeter



So you can tell them by their fruit. Verse ConceptsDistinguishing


But they will not make much progress, for everyone will perceive their folly, just as they did that of those others. Verse ConceptsFolly, Effects OfManifesting (making Something Clear)Foolishness Of MenAspects Of People Made Knowncancer


For there is nothing hidden that shall not be disclosed, nor kept secret that shall not be known and come to light. Verse ConceptsCharacterSecret ThingsFrom Darkness To LightAcquiring KnowledgeHidden ThingsAvoiding SecrecyDisclosuressecretshiding






Not that I have anything to complain of, for I have learned how to be contented with the condition I am in. Verse ConceptsLearningResentment, Against PeopleSuffering, Encouragements InContentmentComplaintsShortagesCircumstancesAbasementRespectBeing Content

That is not the way you have been taught what Christ means, at least if you have really become acquainted with him and been instructed in him, and in union with him have been taught the truth as it is found in Jesus. You must lay aside with your former habits your old self which is going to ruin through its deceptive passions. read more.
You must adopt a new attitude of mind,




In the prophets it is written, 'And all men will be taught by God!' Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him will come to me. Verse Conceptsdiscipleship, nature ofLearning From GodComing To ChristHearing God's WordGod TeachingThe FatherWritten In The ProphetsThe Father's Activity Regarding Christ