Thematic Bible: Neglect of


Thematic Bible



Call judgment down on Meroz,' says the Lord's angelic messenger; 'Be sure to call judgment down on those who live there, because they did not come to help in the Lord's battle, to help in the Lord's battle against the warriors.'

Everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.

So they asked, "Who from all the Israelite tribes did not assemble before the Lord at Mizpah?" Now it just so happened no one from Jabesh Gilead had come to the gathering.

The men of Tekoa worked on the section adjacent to them, but their town leaders would not assist with the work of their master.

Even when they were in their kingdom and benefiting from your incredible goodness that you had lavished on them in the spacious and fertile land you had set before them, they did not serve you, nor did they turn from their evil practices.

Then you should have deposited my money with the bankers, and on my return I would have received my money back with interest!

That servant who knew his master's will but did not get ready or do what his master asked will receive a severe beating.

What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Can this kind of faith save him?



I was a stranger and you did not receive me as a guest, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.'

For he never bothered to show kindness; he harassed the oppressed and needy, and killed the disheartened.



You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bandaged the injured, brought back the strays, or sought the lost, but with force and harshness you have ruled over them.

Indeed, I am about to raise up a shepherd in the land who will not take heed to the sheep headed to slaughter, will not seek the scattered, and will not heal the injured. Moreover, he will not nourish the one that is healthy but instead will eat the meat of the fat sheep and tear off their hooves.

But at his gate lay a poor man named Lazarus whose body was covered with sores, who longed to eat what fell from the rich man's table. In addition, the dogs came and licked his sores.


Just as it is written in the law of Moses, so all this calamity has come on us. Still we have not tried to pacify the LORD our God by turning back from our sin and by seeking wisdom from your reliable moral standards.

and those who turn their backs on the Lord and do not want the Lord's help or guidance."

All those who behave wickedly do not understand -- those who devour my people as if they were eating bread, and do not call out to God.


You desire and you do not have; you murder and envy and you cannot obtain; you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask;

"But you did not call for me, O Jacob; you did not long for me, O Israel.


All of them are blazing like an oven; they devour their rulers. All of their kings fall -- and none of them call on me!


This is what the Lord says: "At the time I decide to show my favor, I will respond to you; in the day of deliverance I will help you; I will protect you and make you a covenant mediator for people, to rebuild the land and to reassign the desolate property.


For this reason every one of your faithful followers should pray to you while there is a window of opportunity. Certainly when the surging water rises, it will not reach them.

O Lord, may you hear my prayer and be favorably disposed to me! O God, because of your great loyal love, answer me with your faithful deliverance!

For he is our God; we are the people of his pasture, the sheep he owns. Today, if only you would obey him!


Take care not to refuse the one who is speaking! For if they did not escape when they refused the one who warned them on earth, how much less shall we, if we reject the one who warns from heaven?

how will we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was first communicated through the Lord and was confirmed to us by those who heard him,


But if you warn the wicked man to change his behavior, and he refuses to change, he will die for his iniquity, but you have saved your own life.


While Paul was discussing righteousness, self-control, and the coming judgment, Felix became frightened and said, "Go away for now, and when I have an opportunity, I will send for you."


But one after another they all began to make excuses. The first said to him, 'I have bought a field, and I must go out and see it. Please excuse me.'


For the heart of this people has become dull, and their ears are hard of hearing, and they have closed their eyes, so that they would not see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them."'


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