Thematic Bible: Neglect of


Thematic Bible



Curse Meroz, said the Angel of Jehovah; curse the people of it bitterly, because they did not come to the help of Jehovah, to the help of Jehovah against the mighty.

And everyone who hears these sayings of Mine and does not do them shall be compared to a foolish man who built his house on the sand.

And they said, What one is there of the tribes of Israel that did not come up to Mizpeh to Jehovah? And, behold, there came none to the camp from Jabesh-gilead to the assembly.

And next to them the Tekoites repaired. But their nobles did not put their necks to the work of their Lord.

For they have not served You in their kingdom, and in Your great goodness which You gave them, and in the large and rich land which You gave before them, and they did not turn from their wicked works.

then you should have put my money to the exchangers, and coming I would have received my own with interest.

And that servant who knew his lord's will and did not prepare, nor did according to His will, shall be beaten with many stripes.

My brothers, what profit is it if a man says he has faith and does not have works? Can faith save him?



I was a stranger and you did not take Me in; I was naked, and you did not clothe Me; I was sick, and in prison, and you did not visit me.

because he did not remember to do mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, and sought to kill the broken-hearted.



You have not made the weak strong, nor have you healed the sick, nor have you bound up the broken. You have not brought again those driven away, nor have you sought that which was lost; but you have ruled them with force and with cruelty.

For lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land who will not care for those going to ruin, nor will he seek the young, nor will heal that which is broken, nor will he feed that which stands. But he shall eat the flesh of the fat and tear off their hoofs.

And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, who was laid at his gate, full of sores and desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table. But even the dogs came and licked his sores.


As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this evil has come on us. Yet we did not make our prayer before Jehovah our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand Your truth.

and those drawing back from Jehovah, and who have not sought Jehovah, nor asked for Him.

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? They eat up my people as they eat bread; they have not called on God.


You desire, and do not have. You murder, and are jealous, and cannot obtain. You fight and war, yet you have not because you ask not.

But you have not called on Me, O Jacob; but you have been weary of Me, O Israel.


They are all hot as an oven, and devour their judges. All their kings have fallen; there is none among them who calls to Me.


So says Jehovah, in a favorable time I replied to You, and in a day of salvation I have helped You; and I will preserve You, and give You for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause them to inherit the wasted inheritances;


For this let every godly one pray to You, in a time when You may be found; surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come near him.

But as for me, my prayer is to You, O Jehovah, in a pleasing time; O God, in the multitude of Your mercy hear me, in the truth of Your salvation.

For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, and the sheep of His hand. Today if you will hear His voice,


See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape, those who refused him that spoke on earth, much more we shall not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from Heaven,

how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by those who heard Him;


But, if you warn the wicked of his way, to turn from it; if he does not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity, but you have delivered your soul.




And all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said to him, I have bought a piece of ground, I must go and see it. I beg you, have me excused.


For the heart of this people was fattened, and they have heard with their ears dully; and they closed their eyes; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them."