Thematic Bible: Of sin


Thematic Bible



The wicked person's iniquities will capture him, and he will be held with the cords of his sin. Verse ConceptsSin, Effects OfSin, Consequences OfThe Fate Of The WickedContinuing In SinPunishment of the The Wicked


These people, like irrational animals, are mere creatures of instinct that are born to be caught and killed. They insult what they don't understand, and like animals they, too, will be destroyed, Verse ConceptsDeath, Of UnbelieversDestructionProfanityWicked Described AsInstinctAnnihilationDestruction Of The WickedKilling Wild AnimalsBeing Killed Like An AnimalMen Similar To AnimalsMammalsKilled Like An AnimalPetsignorancecorruptionacting




Yes, it was for my own good that I suffered extreme anguish. But in love you have held back my life from the Pit in which it has been confined; you have tossed all my sins behind your back. Verse ConceptsReinstatementSuffering, Of BelieversBeing BitterGod Has ForgivenPits Symbolizing GriefHope In Hard TimesBitternesscorruption

"""You're guilty because of the blood that you've shed. You were defiled by the idols that you've made. You've caused your judgment day to draw near and have even come to the end of your life. Therefore, I've made you an object of derision among the nations and to other lands. Verse ConceptsSheddingPeople Polluting ThemselvesFound GuiltyJudged As Murderers

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your tongue mutters wickedness. Verse ConceptsFingersBlemishBlood, Figurative UseLipsThe Lips Of The WickedTongueWhy Prayer Is UnansweredUnanswered PrayerKilling Many People

The earth lies defiled beneath its inhabitants; because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant. Verse ConceptsCovenant breakersCovenant, God's with NoahGod, The EternalEcological ConcernsPolluting The LandBreaking The CovenantBreaking God's LawDefilement

By all of your iniquity and unrighteous businesses you defiled your sanctuaries, so I'm going to bring out fire from within you and burn you to ashes on the earth before the whole watching world! Verse ConceptsAshesMoney, Stewardship OfSanctuaryTradeTrustworthinessFire Of Judgement

by their setting up their threshold too close to my threshold and their door post too close to my door post, with a wall between me and them. After all, they have defiled my holy name by the loathsome things that they did, so I devoured them in my anger. Verse ConceptsDoorpostsProfaning God's NameDanger When God Is Near

All these things come from inside and make a person unclean." Verse ConceptsSexual Sin, Nature OfThe Inward BeingDefilementGreed


The tongue is a fire, a world of evil. Placed among the parts of our bodies, the tongue contaminates the whole body and sets on fire the course of life, and is itself set on fire by hell. Verse Conceptsevil, origins ofHell, As Incentive To ActionThe Human BodyGehennaDamage To The BodyFire Of EvilPeople Being PollutedBeware Of Your SpeechMighty in its influenceThe TongueThe Power Of Words

It is not what goes into the mouth that makes a person unclean. It is what comes out of the mouth that makes a person unclean." Verse ConceptsPurity, Nature OfCursingEntering The MouthComing Out Of PeopleFood PermittedOther References To MouthsDefilementMarijuana

But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and it is those things that make a person unclean. Verse ConceptsComing Out Of PeopleBeware Of Your SpeechOther References To MouthsDefilementThe Tonguemath


"But if you won't do so, look out! You will be sinning against the LORD. Be certain of this, that your sin will catch up to you! Verse ConceptsFindingExposure Of SinBeing Found OutMaking Mistakes


Heaven will reveal his iniquity, while the earth will rise up against him. Verse ConceptsExposure Of SinSin Made KnownThe Universe Affected

Though malice disguises itself with deception, its evil will be exposed publicly. Verse ConceptsExposure Of SinSin Made KnownShowing HypocrisyHateDeception

There is nothing covered up that won't be exposed and nothing secret that won't be made known. Verse ConceptsVeilsExposure Of SinAcquiring KnowledgeHidden ThingsDisclosuresphotography

and because I know that your transgressions are many, and your sins are numerous as you oppose the righteous, taking bribes as a ransom, and turning away the poor in court Verse ConceptsGod, All knowingCruelty, examples ofBribery, Results OfInjustice, Examples OfOffenceGod's Knowledge Of PeopleRighteous, TheRighteousness, Of BelieversSin, And God's CharacterExposure Of SinBusiness At The GatewayNot Helping The Pooroppression

Just then the Spirit of the LORD took control of me and told me, "You are to say, "This is what the LORD says: "You've said, O house of Israel, that I know what goes through your mind. Verse ConceptsGod, All knowingGod's Knowledge Of PeopleExposure Of SinThe Spirit Of The LordMan's ThoughtsThoughts Of The WickedGod Knowing the Human Heart



Then you'll certainly count every step I took, but you won't keep an inventory of my sin. Verse ConceptsExposure Of SinSteps Of The Saints


It never occurs to them that I remember all their sin. Now their actions have caught up with them, and they have my attention. Verse ConceptsGod, All knowingGod's Knowledge Of PeopleAbsence Of ThoughtSin, And God's CharacterSin, Known To GodExposure Of SinThings SurroundingGod Remembering Sin


There is a tragedy that infects everything that happens on earth: a common event happens to everyone. In fact, the hearts of human beings are full of evil. Madness remains in their hearts while they live, and afterwards they join the dead. Verse ConceptsBad SituationsPeople Acting MadlyTragedyfate

The decree was fulfilled against Nebuchadnezzar immediately. He was driven away from people to eat grass like cattle, and his body was drenched with dew from the sky, until his hair grew like eagles' feathers and his nails like birds' claws. "When that period of time was over, I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to heaven and my sanity returned to me. I blessed the Most High, praising and honoring the one who lives forever: For his sovereignty is eternal, and his kingdom continues from generation to generation.

But he was rebuked for his offense. A donkey that normally cannot talk spoke with a human voice and restrained the prophet's insanity. Verse ConceptsBalaams DonkeyMadnessMouthsRebukeRestraintPeople Acting MadlyDumbnessBeing ReprovedDumbThe Dumb Speaking

"Then he came to his senses and said, "How many of my father's hired men have more food than they can eat, and here I am starving to death! Verse ConceptsSelf KnowledgeRegaining SanitySoliloquyNo FoodDeath Of A Fatherhomecoming

While they were listening to these things, they became more and more furious and began to grind their teeth at him. Verse ConceptsGesturesEmotions, Kinds OfBitingGrudgesSanhedrinSpiteTeethAnger, Sinful ExamplesApostasy, CauseGnashing Of TeethUnnamed People Angry With Others


then how much less is one who is abhorred and corrupted, such as a man who drinks injustice like water?" Verse ConceptsGodly Fear, DescriptionLove, Abuse OfMan's Sinful NatureAll Have Sinnedcorruption

Though evil tastes sweet in his mouth, though he conceals it under his tongue, Verse ConceptsMouthsSin, Love OfSweetnessThe Tonguewickedness

You love evil rather than good, falsehood rather than speaking uprightly. Interlude Verse ConceptsLoving EvilPsalm InterjectionsTelling The TruthLying And DeceitThe Environmentlieinglovers

"How terrible it will be for those who parade iniquity with cords of falsehood, who draw sin along as with a cart rope; Verse ConceptsCartsRopesPulling ThingsContinuing In SinWoe To The Wicked

This is what the LORD says to these people: "Yes, they do love to wander, and they haven't restrained their feet. So the LORD won't accept them now. He will remember their iniquity and punish their sin." Verse ConceptsIniquity, God's Attitude TowardRestlessnessRestraintSelf ControlWhy Prayer Is UnansweredUnanswered PrayerWanderersGod Remembering SinLoving Evil

you who despise good and love evil, who tear off the skin of my people, along with the flesh from their bones. Verse ConceptsDebaucheryHuman SkinSkinningBonesHating GoodLoving EvilHatehaters

For this reason, God will send them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie. Then all who have not believed the truth but have taken pleasure in unrighteousness will be condemned.

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