Thematic Bible: Neglect of


Thematic Bible



“Curse Meroz,” says the Angel of the Lord,
“Bitterly curse her inhabitants,
for they did not come to help the Lord,
to help the Lord against the mighty warriors.”

But everyone who hears these words of Mine and doesn’t act on them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.

They asked, “Which city among the tribes of Israel didn’t come to the Lord at Mizpah?” It turned out that no one from Jabesh-gilead had come to the camp and the assembly.

Beside them the Tekoites made repairs, but their nobles did not lift a finger to help their supervisors.

When they were in their kingdom,
with Your abundant goodness that You gave them,
and in the spacious and fertile land You set before them,
they would not serve You or turn from their wicked ways.

then you should have deposited my money with the bankers. And when I returned I would have received my money back with interest.

And that slave who knew his master’s will and didn’t prepare himself or do it will be severely beaten.

What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can his faith save him?



I was a stranger
and you didn’t take Me in;
I was naked
and you didn’t clothe Me,
sick and in prison
and you didn’t take care of Me.’

For he did not think to show kindness,
but pursued the afflicted, poor, and brokenhearted
in order to put them to death.



You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bandaged the injured, brought back the strays, or sought the lost. Instead, you have ruled them with violence and cruelty.

I am about to raise up a shepherd in the land who will not care for those who are going astray, and he will not seek the lost or heal the broken. He will not sustain the healthy, but he will devour the flesh of the fat sheep and tear off their hooves.

But a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, was left at his gate. He longed to be filled with what fell from the rich man's table, but instead the dogs would come and lick his sores.


Just as it is written in the law of Moses, all this disaster has come on us, yet we have not appeased the Lord our God by turning from our iniquities and paying attention to Your truth.

and those who turn back from following the Lord,
who do not seek the Lord or inquire of Him.

Will evildoers never understand?
They consume My people as they consume bread;
they do not call on God.


You desire and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. You do not have because you do not ask.

“But Jacob, you have not called on Me,
because, Israel, you have become weary of Me.


All of them are as hot as an oven,
and they consume their rulers.
All their kings fall;
not one of them calls on Me.


This is what the Lord says:

I will answer you in a time of favor,
and I will help you in the day of salvation.
I will keep you, and I will appoint you
to be a covenant for the people,
to restore the land,
to make them possess the desolate inheritances,


Therefore let everyone who is faithful pray to You
at a time that You may be found.
When great floodwaters come,
they will not reach him.

But as for me, Lord,
my prayer to You is for a time of favor.
In Your abundant, faithful love, God,
answer me with Your sure salvation.

For He is our God,
and we are the people of His pasture,
the sheep under His care.


Today, if you hear His voice:


Make sure that you do not reject the One who speaks. For if they did not escape when they rejected Him who warned them on earth, even less will we if we turn away from Him who warns us from heaven.

how will we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was first spoken by the Lord and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him.


But if you warn a wicked person to turn from his way and he doesn’t turn from it, he will die for his iniquity, but you will have saved your life.




“But without exception they all began to make excuses. The first one said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go out and see it. I ask you to excuse me.’


For the hearts of these people
have grown callous,
their ears are hard of hearing,
and they have shut their eyes;
otherwise they might see with their eyes
and hear with their ears,
understand with their heart,
and be converted,
and I would heal them.


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