Thematic Bible: Necessary


Thematic Bible





He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction. You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, be on your guard so that you are not carried away by the error of lawless men and fall from your own steadfastness.

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

Then if any one says to you, 'Look, here is the Christ!' or 'There he is!' do not believe it. For false christs and false prophets will arise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.











See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God; that no root of bitterness spring up and cause trouble, and by it many become defiled; that no one be immoral or godless like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal.





Then he said to them, "Take heed what you hear. With the measure you use, it will be measured to you; and more will be given you. Verse ConceptsAdding BlessingTaking HeedGood ReboundingThose To Whom God GivesRight MeasuresTreating Othersattentionmeasurement

Therefore take heed how you hear. For whoever has, to him more will be given; and whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has will be taken from him." Verse ConceptsPossessingAdding BlessingThoughts Of The WickedTaking HeedThose To Whom God GivesTaking God's Things

Everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. Therefore I do not run aimlessly. I do not box as a man beating the air. But I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that, after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.


And whoever does not bear his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it? Otherwise, when he has laid the foundation, and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock 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, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? And if not, while the other is still a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks terms of peace. So likewise, whoever of you does not give up all that he has cannot be my disciple.