Thematic Bible


Thematic Bible





Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you concerning the common salvation, I held it necessary to write unto you, exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered unto the saints. Verse ConceptsFight Of FaithOnly OnceAll Believers Are SaintsThe Gospel Of Salvationeffort

This testimony is true. For which cause rebuke them with severity, that they may be sound in the faith; Verse Conceptsevil, believers' responses toChurch DisciplineDiscipline Of The ChurchThe FaithReproving Peoplerebuking

but the others of love, knowing that I am exposed for the defence of the gospel. Verse ConceptsAmbition, negative aspects ofSelf IndulgenceSelfishnessPreaching ChristTroubling IndividualsCompetitionmotives


but the others of love, knowing that I am exposed for the defence of the gospel. Verse ConceptsAmbition, negative aspects ofSelf IndulgenceSelfishnessPreaching ChristTroubling IndividualsCompetitionmotives

If thou suggest these truths to the brethren, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and sound doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained. Verse Conceptsdoctrine, Purpose ofdefence, humanOrthodoxy, In NtTeachingClergyThe FaithSound Doctrineimprovementdoctrine

but the others of love, knowing that I am exposed for the defence of the gospel. Verse ConceptsAmbition, negative aspects ofSelf IndulgenceSelfishnessPreaching ChristTroubling IndividualsCompetitionmotives

Some indeed do it in a spirit of envy and strife; but some also preach Christ with cordial good-will: the one indeed preach Christ out of contention, not with purity of intention, thinking to add affliction to my bonds: but the others of love, knowing that I am exposed for the defence of the gospel.

They affect zeal for you, not honourably; but they wish to exclude us, that you may be zealously attached to them. Verse ConceptsExcommunicationmotives

For ye have heard of my former manner of life, when I professed Judaism, that in the most outrageous manner I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it: and signalized myself in Judaism above many of those of my own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly a zealot for the traditions of my fathers.

For I am a witness for them, that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. For being ignorant of the righteousness which is of God, and seeking to establish a righteousness of their own, they have not submitted to the righteousness of God.


And they, when they heard it, glorified the Lord, and said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many myriads there are of Jews who have believed; and they are all zealots for the law: Verse ConceptsZealMany In The ChurchSalvation For IsraelSpecific Praising Of GodTaking The Law To Heartzealots


And a certain scribe came, and said unto him, Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest. And Jesus said unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where he can lay his head.

And it came to pass, as they were walking on the road, a certain person said to him, Lord, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest. And Jesus Said to him, The foxes have holts, and the birds of the air, nests, but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

Some indeed do it in a spirit of envy and strife; but some also preach Christ with cordial good-will: the one indeed preach Christ out of contention, not with purity of intention, thinking to add affliction to my bonds: but the others of love, knowing that I am exposed for the defence of the gospel. read more.
What then? if Christ is preached in whatever manner it be, whether in pretext or reality, even in this do I rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.

All the saints salute you, specially those who are of Caesar's household. Verse ConceptsCaesarRoman Emperors

Hasten to come before winter. Eubulus greeteth thee, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren. Verse ConceptsWinterBrotherhoodeffort

and the church which is in their house. Salute Epinetus my beloved, who is the first-fruits of Achaia unto Christ. Salute Mary, who laboured in many things to serve us. Salute Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen, and fellow-prisoners, who are eminent among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me. read more.
Salute Amplias my beloved in the Lord. Salute Urban, our fellow-labourer in Christ, and Stachys my beloved. Salute Apelles the approved in Christ. Salute those who are of the family of Aristobulus. Salute Herodion my kinsman. Salute those which belong to the family of Narcissus, who are in the Lord. Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who have laboured hard in the Lord. Salute Persis the beloved, who laboured much in the Lord. Salute Rufus elect in the Lord, and his mother and mine. Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Dermas, Patrobas, Hermes, and the brethren which are with them. Salute Philologus, and Julia, Nereus, and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints with them. Salute one another with the holy kiss. The churches of Christ salute you. Now I beseech you, brethren, keep a sharp eye over those who cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine ye have learned, and turn away from them.

Now I wish you, brethren, to know, that the things which have befallen me have rather conduced to the progress of the gospel; so that my bonds are manifest in Christ through the whole palace, and all other places; and very many of our brethren in the Lord, assuming confidence from my chains, are more abundantly bold, fearlessly to preach the word. read more.
Some indeed do it in a spirit of envy and strife; but some also preach Christ with cordial good-will: the one indeed preach Christ out of contention, not with purity of intention, thinking to add affliction to my bonds: but the others of love, knowing that I am exposed for the defence of the gospel. What then? if Christ is preached in whatever manner it be, whether in pretext or reality, even in this do I rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.

that ye may prove the things that are excellent, in order that ye may be sincere and without offence unto the day of Christ; filled with fruits of righteousness, which by Jesus Christ are to the glory and praise of God. Now I wish you, brethren, to know, that the things which have befallen me have rather conduced to the progress of the gospel; read more.
so that my bonds are manifest in Christ through the whole palace, and all other places; and very many of our brethren in the Lord, assuming confidence from my chains, are more abundantly bold, fearlessly to preach the word. Some indeed do it in a spirit of envy and strife; but some also preach Christ with cordial good-will: the one indeed preach Christ out of contention, not with purity of intention, thinking to add affliction to my bonds: but the others of love, knowing that I am exposed for the defence of the gospel. What then? if Christ is preached in whatever manner it be, whether in pretext or reality, even in this do I rejoice, yea, and will rejoice. For I know that this shall issue in my salvation through your prayers, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, according to my firm expectation and hope, that I shall be confounded by no event, but that with all boldness, as always hitherto, Christ shall now also be magnified in my body, whether by my life or death. For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. But if it be his will, that I should live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my travail: and what to chuse I know not.