Thematic Bible: Limitations of


Thematic Bible



“Everything is permissible,” but not everything is helpful. “Everything is permissible,” but not everything builds up.

“Everything is permissible for me,” but not everything is helpful. “Everything is permissible for me,” but I will not be brought under the control of anything.

Although I am a free man and not anyone’s slave, I have made myself a slave to everyone, in order to win more people.


ג GimelHe has walled me in so I cannot escape;
He has weighed me down with chains.

You have encircled me;
You have placed Your hand on me.


No one has authority over the wind to restrain it, and there is no authority over the day of death; there is no furlough in battle, and wickedness will not allow those who practice it to escape.



You put my feet in the stocks
and stand watch over all my paths,
setting a limit for the soles of my feet.

He has blocked my way so that I cannot pass through;
He has veiled my paths with darkness.


Neither should you swear by your head, because you cannot make a single hair white or black.




Why is life given to a man whose path is hidden,
whom God has hedged in?


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