Thematic Bible: Profit and loss


Thematic Bible




This saying is trustworthy. I want you to insist on these things, so that those who have believed God might be careful to devote themselves to good works. These are good and profitable for everyone. Verse ConceptseagernessProfitsWork, And RedemptionProfitable ThingsFaithful SayingsBelief In GodDo Good!Useful ThingsWorks Of FaithAnxiety And StressWork Ethic

Keep His statutes and commands, which I am giving you today, so that you and your children after you may prosper and so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you for all time.” Verse ConceptsTemporal Blessingsethics, and graceBlessings, To AbrahamOld Age, Attainment OfHow To Live LongEternal PossessionResults Of Keeping The CommandmentsKeep The Commandments!


Tell the righteous that it will go well for them,
for they will eat the fruit of their labor.
Verse ConceptsRighteous, TheRighteousness, Of BelieversRepaid For DeedsBlessings And ProsperityA Good Man

Although a sinner commits crime a hundred times and prolongs his life, yet I also know that it will go well with God-fearing people, for they are reverent before Him. Verse ConceptsOne HundredLiving LongWork EthicEthics

They will not build and others live in them;
they will not plant and others eat.
For My people’s lives will be
like the lifetime of a tree.
My chosen ones will fully enjoy
the work of their hands.
Verse ConceptsEnjoyment, Material ThingsTreesPlanting VineyardsLifelongLifespanDifferent PersonHard WorkLiveBeing Happy And Enjoying Life

However, I did give them this command: Obey Me, and then I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must follow every way I command you so that it may go well with you. Verse ConceptsCommitment, to Godethics, and graceEarsWalkingObedience To GodI Will Be Their GodObedienceObeying Godobeying

Are you a king because you excel in cedar?
Didn’t your father eat and drink
and administer justice and righteousness?
Then it went well with him.
Verse ConceptsCedar WoodEating And DrinkingUnsuitable Rule

They have sown wheat but harvested thorns.
They have exhausted themselves but have no profit.
Be put to shame by your harvests
because of the Lord’s burning anger.
Verse ConceptsHarvestProfitsSin, Effects OfSowing And ReapingThornsWheatUnprofitable SinsNot Reaping What You SowToiling In Vain

Why do you spend money on what is not food,
and your wages on what does not satisfy?
Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good,
and you will enjoy the choicest of foods.
Verse ConceptsSpiritual FoodemptinessdissatisfactionPleasurePhysical LabourUnprofitable SinsBeing UnsatisfiedBuying FoodNo FoodPay Attention To God!FinancesMoney Blessingsenergy

He will look at men and say,
“I have sinned and perverted what was right;
yet I did not get what I deserved.
Verse ConceptsUnprofitable SinsGod Has ForgivenWe Have Sinned




Don’t turn away to follow worthless things that can’t profit or deliver you; they are worthless. Verse ConceptsFutilityFalse ReligionUseless ThingsRescueIdols Not ExistingSteadfastnessUnprofitable SinsUseless Idols

For the evil have no future;
the lamp of the wicked will be put out.
Verse ConceptsUnprofitable SinsExtinguishingThe Future

All who make idols are nothing,
and what they treasure does not profit.
Their witnesses do not see or know anything,
so they will be put to shame.
Verse ConceptsFolly, Effects OfFalse ReligionRefugeIdols Not ExistingVanityUnprofitable SinsUseless PeopleShame Of IdolatryimageHinduism


and the smoke of their torment will go up forever and ever. There is no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and his image, or anyone who receives the mark of his name. Verse ConceptsHell, As An ExperienceLeisure, Nature And Purpose OfMortalityPunishment, By GodRegretRestlessnessSleeplessnessSmokeTortureUnrestEternal JudgementAffliction Day And NightMarks On PeopleFate Of IdolatersWorshipping The DevilHellHell Is Everlastingsmoking

and who have fallen away, because, to their own harm, they are recrucifying the Son of God and holding Him up to contempt. Verse ConceptsFaith, As A Body Of BeliefsDoing RepeatedlyChrist And ShamingChrist Was KilledSignificance Of Christ's CrucifixionRenewalapostasyimpossibleFalling Away From God

For you know that later, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected because he didn’t find any opportunity for repentance, though he sought it with tears. Verse ConceptsCryingWeepingDelay, Examples OfGod Abandoning IndividualsMourning In RegretRejection

But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin” Verse ConceptsIrreverenceAntichristReprobatesThe Unpardonable SinResisting Holy SpiritEternal EvilBlasphemyGod Not Forgiving

There the evildoers fall;
they have been thrown down and cannot rise.
Verse ConceptsEvildoersDownfall

where

Their worm does not die,
and the fire is not quenched.
Verse ConceptsPeople Eaten By WormNot DyingMaggotsFire Of HellDyingbugsworms

Besides all this, a great chasm has been fixed between us and you, so that those who want to pass over from here to you cannot; neither can those from there cross over to us.’ Verse ConceptsHell, As An ExperienceGehennaProbation PeriodGapsUnable To Do Other ThingsOccupants Of HellPurgatorybridges

For if we deliberately sin after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, Verse ConceptsAbandonmentKnowing God's TruthThe Truth Of The GospelContinuing In SinSacrificePersistenceconsequencesapostasy

For to the man who is pleasing in His sight, He gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy, but to the sinner He gives the task of gathering and accumulating in order to give to the one who is pleasing in God’s sight. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind. Verse ConceptsWealthBeing A BlessingEnjoyment, Lack OfBeing BlessedPromised JoyUseless EndeavourGod Judges The WickedPeople With KnowledgeGod Gives WisdomWisdomWisdom And GuidanceSaving Moneystriving

suffering harm as the payment for unrighteousness. They consider it a pleasure to carouse in the daytime. They are spots and blemishes, delighting in their deceptions as they feast with you. Verse ConceptsDaylightExcessBlemishLove FeastLove, Nature OfWagesPleasure SeekersRiotsBlemished PeopleDuring The DayWages For EvilPartying

For if the message spoken through angels was legally binding and every transgression and disobedience received a just punishment, Verse ConceptsAngels as God's servantsDisobedience, To GodThe Recompense Of The WickedAngels Giving The LawGod Has RequitedAngels As MediatorsAngels Activities Among Believers


Let him not put trust in worthless things, being led astray,
for what he gets in exchange will prove worthless.
Verse ConceptsemptinessFalse ConfidenceUseless ThingsTrust, Lack OfTrusting Deceptive ThingsDeceiving OneselfUseless Endeavour

This is a wicked man’s lot from God,
the inheritance the ruthless receive from the Almighty.
Verse ConceptsThe Fate Of The WickedHeritageGod Judges The Wicked



This saying is trustworthy. I want you to insist on these things, so that those who have believed God might be careful to devote themselves to good works. These are good and profitable for everyone. Verse ConceptseagernessProfitsWork, And RedemptionProfitable ThingsFaithful SayingsBelief In GodDo Good!Useful ThingsWorks Of FaithAnxiety And StressWork Ethic


each one’s work will become obvious, for the day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire; the fire will test the quality of each one’s work. Verse ConceptsAbility, Of The ChristianFireCharacterVeilsThe Day Of JudgementFire Of JudgementGod Testing PeopleThings RevealedOne's DeedsJudgement DayTestsPurgatoryworkingexamsstructuremotiveswilltrying

If anyone’s work is burned up, it will be lost, but he will be saved; yet it will be like an escape through fire. Verse ConceptsSpiritual FailureFire Of JudgementBemalosing a loved oneLosing SomeonePurgatorysmoking

then you should have deposited my money with the bankers. And when I returned I would have received my money back with interest. " 'So take the talent from him and give it to the one who has 10 talents.

For to everyone who has, more will be given, and he will have more than enough. But from the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him. Verse ConceptsTalentsAbundance, SpiritualPossessingAdding BlessingThose To Whom God GivesTaking God's ThingsGifts And TalentsAbundance

Your guilty acts have diverted these things from you.
Your sins have withheld My bounty from you,
Verse ConceptsFruits Of SinSin Brings ImpoverishmentGod Turning Bad Things Into Good

Not many days later, the younger son gathered together all he had and traveled to a distant country, where he squandered his estate in foolish living. Verse ConceptsGluttonyExtravaganceExcessBad Decision Making ExamplesBuying and sellingLeisure, Nature And Purpose OfLossThriftWantonnessDeparturesA Short TimeFar From HereShort Time Till The EndThey Committed Immorality

But the one who hears and does not act is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. The river crashed against it, and immediately it collapsed. And the destruction of that house was great!” Verse ConceptsFools, In Teaching Of Jesus ChristCarelessnessLossShallownessHearing ChristThings Falling


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