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Thematic Bible



Then came there publicans to be baptised, and said unto him, "Master, what shall we do?"

Then sent Jesus the people away, and came to house. And his disciples came unto him, saying, "Declare unto us the similitude of the tares in the field."

And when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked him of the similitude.

And when he came into a house away from the people, his disciples asked him of the similitude,

And they asked him, saying, "Why then Say the scribes, that Elijah must first come?"


And in the house his disciples asked him again of that matter.

"When shall these things be? And what is the sign, when all these things shall be fulfilled?"

And it fortuned, as he was praying in a certain place: when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, "Master, teach us to pray; As John taught his disciples."

And a certain ruler asked him, saying, "Good Master: what ought I to do, to obtain eternal life?"

Then said they unto him, "What shall we do that we might work the works of God?"


When they had dined, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon the son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these?" He said unto him, "Yea Lord, thou knowest, that I love thee." He said unto him, "Feed my lambs."


Take heed to thyself therefore only and keep thy soul diligently, that thou forget not the things which thine eyes have seen, and that they depart not out of thine heart, all the days of thine life: but teach them thy sons, and thy son's sons.



and that their children which know nothing may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it."


Whom then shall such one teach knowledge? And whom shall he make to understand the thing that he heareth? For they are as ignorant as young children, which are weeded from suck or taken from the breasts.





and that ye may teach the children of Israel all the ordinances which the LORD hath commanded them by the hands of Moses."

that their posterity might know it, and the children which were yet unborn, to the intent that when they came up, they might show their children the same;

They shall show my people the difference between the holy and unholy, betwixt the clean and unclean.



But they mocked the messengers of God and despised their words and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD so arose against his people that it was past remedy.


"O ye children, how long will ye love childishness? How long will the scorners delight in scorning, and the unwise be enemies unto knowledge?

And the posts went from city to city throughout the land of Ephraim and Manasseh and even unto Zebulun. But they laughed them to scorn and mocked them.




so that there was not one word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua read not - before all the congregation of Israel, with women and children and the strangers that were among them.


And he did that pleased the LORD, as long as Jehoiada the Priest informed him.




And that he may do it right, his God teacheth him and showeth him.

Thou, O God, hast taught me from my youth up until now; therefore will I tell of thy wondrous works.

For the LORD chastised me, and took me by the hand, and warned me, saying unto me that I should not walk in the ways of this people. He said moreover,


And the anointing which ye have received of him dwelleth in you. And ye need not that any man teach you: but as the anointing teacheth you all things, and is true, and is no lie: and as it taught you, even so bide therein.



And thou gavest them thy good spirit to inform them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water when they were thirsty.

Behold, I have taught you ordinances and laws, such as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do even so in the land whither ye go to possess it.


It is written in the prophets, 'That they shall all be taught of God.' Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the father, cometh unto me:

And we have not received the spirit of the world: but the spirit which cometh of God, for to know the things that are given to us of God,


If so be ye have heard of him, and are taught in him, even as the truth is in Jesus:







laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may obtain eternal life.

"Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in the field, the which a man findeth and hideth it: and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.

But gather ye treasures together in heaven, where neither rust, nor yet moths corrupt: and where thieves neither break up, nor yet steal.