Thematic Bible: Necessary


Thematic Bible





as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, to their own destruction. Do you, therefore, beloved, since you know these things be forehand, beware, lest, being led away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.

And Jesus answered and said to them: Take heed that no one deceive you. For many will come in my name, saying, I am the Christ; and will deceive many.

Then if any one shall say to you: Lo! here is the Christ, or there; believe it not. For false Christs and false prophets will arise, and will show great signs and wonders, so as to deceive, if possible, even the elect.











taking care, lest any one slight the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness spring up and trouble you, and by this many be defiled; lest there be any lewd person, or profane man, as Esau, who, for a single meal, sold his birthright.





And he said to them: Take heed how you hear; with what measure you measure, it shall be measured to you; and to you that hear, more shall be given; Verse ConceptsAdding BlessingTaking HeedGood ReboundingThose To Whom God GivesRight MeasuresTreating Othersattentionmeasurement

Take heed, therefore, how you hear; for whoever has, to him shall be given; and whoever has not, even that which he seems to have shall be taken from him. Verse ConceptsPossessingAdding BlessingThoughts Of The WickedTaking HeedThose To Whom God GivesTaking God's Things

Every combatant in the public games is temperate in all things: they, indeed, that they may obtain a corruptible, but we, that we may obtain an incorruptible crown. I, therefore, so run, not as with uncertainty; I so aim my blows, not as one that beats the air; but I put my body under severe discipline, and bring it into subjection, lest, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.


And whoever does not bear his cross, and come after me, can not be my disciple. For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not first sit down, and count the cost, whether he has the means to finish it? Lest, when he has laid the foundation, and is not able to finish, all that see it begin to deride him, read more.
saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish. Or, what king, going to make war against another king, does not first sit down, and deliberate whether he is able, with ten thousand, to meet him that is coming; against him with twenty thousand? And if not, while he is yet at a distance, he sends an embassy, and asks for conditions of peace. So, then, whoever of you does not forsake all that he has, can not be my disciple.