Thematic Bible: Ministers should


Thematic Bible




Be giving heed to thyself, and to thy teaching, - abide still in them; for, this doing, both, thyself, shalt thou save, and them that hearken to thee. Verse Conceptsdoctrine, Purpose ofGuardsMinistry, In The ChurchMinisters, Way They Should TeachApplying The BibleTaking HeedDoctrines of the The GospelFocusBeing YourselfPersistenceperseveringattentiondoctrineGuarding Yourself





Be giving heed to thyself, and to thy teaching, - abide still in them; for, this doing, both, thyself, shalt thou save, and them that hearken to thee. Verse Conceptsdoctrine, Purpose ofGuardsMinistry, In The ChurchMinisters, Way They Should TeachApplying The BibleTaking HeedDoctrines of the The GospelFocusBeing YourselfPersistenceperseveringattentiondoctrineGuarding Yourself

These things, submitting to the brethren, thou shall be, a noble, minister of Christ Jesus, nourishing thyself with the words of the faith, and of the noble teaching which thou hast closely studied. Verse Conceptsdoctrine, Purpose ofdefence, humanOrthodoxy, In NtTeachingClergyThe FaithSound Doctrineimprovementdoctrine

But do, thou, speak the things which become the healthful instruction: - Verse ConceptsTeachingTheologySound Doctrinebehaviordoctrine


As obedient persons, not configuring yourselves unto your former covetings in your ignorance: But, according as he that hath called you is holy, do, ye yourselves, also become, holy in all manner of behaviour, - Inasmuch as it is written - Holy shall ye be, because, I, am holy.

Holy persons, shall they be unto their God, and not profane the name of their God, - for, the altar-flames of Yahweh, the food of their God, do they bring near - Therefore shall they be holy. Verse ConceptsCripplesHoliness Of MinistersIrreverenceMinisters, Should BeProfaning God's NameMaking People Holy




Able, to have a measure of feeling, for the ignorant and erring, - since, he also, is compassed with weakness; Verse ConceptsGentlenessGrace, And Christian LifeWeakness, PhysicalThe Gentleness Of God's PeopleIgnorance of GodWeaknessExerciseMaking Mistakesignoranceempathy

And, a servant of the Lord, ought not to strive, but to be, gentle, towards all, apt in teaching, ready to endure malice, - In meekness, bringing under discipline them that oppose themselves, lest at any time God should give them repentance unto a personal knowledge of truth,

For, passing through, and carefully observing your objects of devotion, I found an altar also, in which was inscribed - Unto an Unknown God. What, therefore, not knowing, ye reverence, the same, do, I, declare unto you. Verse ConceptsAmbassadorsGod, Revelation OfIgnorance, Of GodInscriptionsOpportunities, And SalvationSuperstitionPolytheismUnknown GodsHow Not To WorshipIgnorance of GodEclipseignorancedevotion

Great, is my freedom of speech towards you, great, is my boasting in behalf of you: I am filled with the encouragement, I am greatly superabounding with the joy, in all our tribulation. Verse Conceptsencouragement, examples ofJoy, Of The ChurchOptimismDistressTrusting Other PeopleHuman ComfortPaul's BoastingPrideholy BoldnessEncouragementJoy And HappinessBoldnessSpeechencouraging

For what thanksgiving can we render back, unto God, concerning you, on occasion of all the joy wherewith we rejoice, for your sakes, before our God? - Verse ConceptsAppreciationHappinessJoy, Of The ChurchThanking God For PeopleThank YouBeing GratefulThanksgiving And Gratitude



Ye, in fact, are our glory and joy. Verse ConceptsThe Soul Winners JoyPeople Have HonourJoy

And, of, this, being assured, know that I shall abide, - yea abide with you all, for your advancement, and the joy of your faith; Verse ConceptsFaith, As A Body Of BeliefsExamples Of ConfidenceAbsenceRejoicingGrowth In GraceThe FaithYou Will Rejoice In Salvationpatientsjoyful

Not that we have lordship over your faith, but are, helpers, of your joy, for, by your faith, ye stand. Verse ConceptsStabilityStanding FirmLording ItWorking TogetherRespecting Authority




In order that, with joy coming unto you through God's will, I may together with you find rest. Verse ConceptsGuidance, God's Promises OfDoing God's WillPeople RefreshedRejoicing In God's WorksPraying For OthersGod's WillEncouraging Others


And, a servant of the Lord, ought not to strive, but to be, gentle, towards all, apt in teaching, ready to endure malice, - In meekness, bringing under discipline them that oppose themselves, lest at any time God should give them repentance unto a personal knowledge of truth,


Be putting them in mind, unto rulerships, unto authorities, to be in submission, to be yielding to rule, for every good work, to be, prepared, To be defaming, no one, to be, averse to strife, considerate, shewing, all, meekness unto all men.

Giving, no single, occasion of stumbling, in anything, that the ministry be not blamed; Verse ConceptsBlamelessness, In Christian LivingOffenceDo Not HinderMinistrynegativity

And one said - Cast ye up - cast ye up, prepare ye a way, - Lift the stumbling-block out of the way of my people. Verse ConceptsStumbling BlocksMaking RoadsDo Not HinderHindrancesHighwaysMoving OnRemoving People From Your LifeOvercoming Obstaclesroadblockspeople





in love unfeigned, in discourse of truth, in power of God; through the weapons of righteousness on the right hand and left, Verse ConceptsArmor of GodPower Through GodArmourWeaponsTruthArmor, SpiritualWeapons Of The BelieverGod's Word Is TruePurityPowerStrugglesThe Power Of WordsSpeecharmor


Thy priests, let them be clothed with righteousness, Thy men of lovingkindness, let them shout for joy! Verse ConceptsSaintsClothed With Righteousnessjoyfulness

And, as he was reasoning of righteousness, and self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix, becoming greatly afraid, answered - For the present, be going thy way, and, when I find an opportunity, I will send for thee, - Verse ConceptsConviction, Not Leading To RepentanceGiving, Of TimeBribery, Examples OfIndecisionSelf ControlEternal JudgmentConviction Of SinJudgement To ComeThe Final JudgementGod Doing RightDoing RightNowRight Time For PeopleThose Frightened Of GodOpportunityJudgement DayEthics

and said - If, I pray thee, I have found favour in thine eyes, O My Lord, I pray thee let My Lord go on in our midst, - although a stiff-necked people, it is, so wilt thou pardon our iniquity and our sin and take us as thine own. Verse ConceptsPrayer, For OthersStiffnecked PeopleNecksSelf WillGod Goes With YouGod Forgive!

Have remembrance of thy servants, of Abraham, of Isaac and of Jacob, - do not regard the obduracy of this people, or their lawlessness or their sin: Verse ConceptsGod Of The FathersServanthood, In Life Of BelieversSelf Will

Wherefore, - according as saith the Holy Spirit - To-day, if, unto his voice ye would hearken, do not harden your hearts, - as in the embitterment, in the day of testing in the desert, When your fathers tested by proving, and saw my works forty years. read more.
Wherefore I was sore vexed with this generation, and said, Always err they in their heart; - howbeit, they, learned not my ways: So I sware in mine anger - they shall not enter into my rest! - Be taking heed, brethren, lest at any time, there shall be in any one of you, a wicked heart of unbelief, in revolting from a Living God.


Cry aloud, do not spare, Like a horn, lift high thy voice, - And declare To my people, heir transgression, and To the house of Jacob their sins. Verse ConceptsHesitationShoutingMinisters, Way They Should TeachTrumpets For SignallingWhat Sin?EmotionsrebellionDishonoring God

Now, enter - Write it upon a tablet before them And upon a scroll, inscribe it, - That it may serve for a later day, For futurity, unto times age-abiding: - Verse ConceptsInscriptionsProphecy, Methods Of OtScrollsTabletsJournalizing

Arise, get thee to Nineveh the great city, and proclaim unto it, - that their wickedness, hath come up, before me. Verse ConceptsMission, Of IsraelWitnessing, Importance Ofjonah

And he said unto me- Son of man I am sending thee unto the sons of Israel, unto rebellious nations, which have rebelled against me, - they, and their fathers have transgressed against me, until this very day; and it is unto such sons - of shameless face, and emboldened heart, that I am sending thee, - therefore shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith My Lord, Yahweh. And they! whether they will hear or whether they will forbear, for a perverse house, they are, shall then know that la prophet hath been in their midst.

Thou therefore son of man, Wt thou judge wt thou judge the city of bloodshed; and cause her to know all her abominations? Verse ConceptsResponsibility For Blood ShedGiving Information

Between the porch and the altar, let the priests, weep, the attendants of Yahweh, - and let them say - Look with pity, O Yahweh, upon thy people, and do not deliver thine inheritance to reproach, that the nations, should mock them, Why should they say among the peoples, Where is their God? Verse ConceptsBywordOutsidersPriests, Function In Ot TimesPorchesGod Not ExistingBeing ReprovedWhere Is God?

Thus saith My Lord. Yahweh, Smite with thy hand, and stamp with thy foot and say, Alas! regarding all the wicked abominations of the house of Israel, - in that by sword, by famine, and by pestilence, shall they fall: Verse ConceptsFeetPestilenceStampingClappingFamine Killing

But if ye will not hear it, In secret places, shall my soul weep Because of the pride, And mine eye, shall flow over, and run down with tears, Because captive hath been taken the flock of Yahweh. Verse ConceptsBeing Earnest For IsraelFeelings Of Rejection By GodSecrecySorrowWeepingRefusing To HearActing In SecretThe Proud Will Be Abased

So then it came to pass - when he commanded the man clothed with linen, saying, Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between the cherubim, then went he in and stood beside the wheel. Verse ConceptsWheels

So Moses returned unto Yahweh, and said, - Oh now, this people hath sinned a great sin, and they have made for themselves - gods of gold. Now, therefore, if thou wilt forgive their sin, -- but if not, blot me I pray thee out of thy book, which thou hast written,

But if they had stood in my council, Then might they have announced my words unto my people, And have turned them from their wicked way and from the wickedness of their doings. Verse ConceptsSpeaking The Word God Gives

For it hath been signified unto me, concerning you, my brethren, - by them who are of the household of Chloe, - that there are strifes among you, Verse ConceptsArguingTelling Of People's Situations


But, in giving you the following charge, I praise you not, - in that, not for the better, but for the worse, ye come together. For, first of all, - when ye come together in assembly, I hear that divisions among you exist, - and, in part, I believe it;


Of these things, be putting them in remembrance, adjuring them before God not to be waging word-battles, - useful, for nothing, occasioning a subversion of them that hearken. Verse ConceptsFutilityDiscorddisagreementsInfluenceUseless ThingsArguingQuarrelsDestruction Of The WickedReminders Of The GospelUseless WordsAvoid QuarrelsUseless Words And ThinkingErrorPositive Thinkingdistractionsremembrancestrivingdoctrine





Some, indeed, by reason of envy and strife - some, however, by reason of good will - are proclaiming, the Christ: These, indeed, out of love, knowing that, for the defence of the glad-message, I am set;

in love unfeigned, in discourse of truth, in power of God; through the weapons of righteousness on the right hand and left, Verse ConceptsArmor of GodPower Through GodArmourWeaponsTruthArmor, SpiritualWeapons Of The BelieverGod's Word Is TruePurityPowerStrugglesThe Power Of WordsSpeecharmor


That, if in anything - unto him - in your behalf - I have boasted, I have not been put to shame; but, as, all things, in truth, we told you, so, even our boasting before Titus, turned out to be, truth. Verse ConceptsPaul's BoastingBoasting

Although in fact, if I should wish to boast, I shall not be foolish, for, the truth, would I speak; but I forbear, lest anyone, unto me, should reckon above what he beholdeth me to be , or heareth from me, - even by the exceeding greatness of the revelations. Verse ConceptsFolly, Examples OfOverestimationFoolish PeopleSeeing PeoplePaul's Boasting

So then, your enemy, have I become, by dealing truthfully with you? Verse ConceptsHonestyPainAbrasionSpeaking TruthReasons Why The World Hates ChristiansTelling The Truth


Upon them who are rich in the present age, lay thou charge - not to be high-minded, nor to have set their hope on, riches', uncertainty, - but on God, who offereth us all things richly for enjoying, To be doing good, to be rich in noble works, to be, generous in giving, ready for fellowship, -