Thematic Bible: Profit and loss


Thematic Bible




This saying is trustworthy. On this I want you to firmly insist; that those who have faith in God must be careful to maintain honest occupations. Such counsels are good and profitable for men. Verse ConceptseagernessProfitsWork, And RedemptionProfitable ThingsFaithful SayingsBelief In GodDo Good!Useful ThingsWorks Of FaithAnxiety And StressWork Ethic



















and then fallen away, it is impossible to renew them again unto repentance. For they repeatedly crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and expose him to an open shame. Verse ConceptsFaith, As A Body Of BeliefsDoing RepeatedlyChrist And ShamingChrist Was KilledSignificance Of Christ's CrucifixionRenewalapostasyimpossibleFalling Away From God

For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected; he found no room for repentance, though he sought it earnestly, with tears. Verse ConceptsCryingWeepingDelay, Examples OfGod Abandoning IndividualsMourning In RegretRejection

but he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit is never forgiven. Nay, he is in the grasp of an eternal sin." Verse ConceptsIrreverenceAntichristReprobatesThe Unpardonable SinResisting Holy SpiritEternal EvilBlasphemyGod Not Forgiving


where their worm never dies and the fire does not go out. Verse ConceptsPeople Eaten By WormNot DyingMaggotsFire Of HellDyingbugsworms

"But besides all this, between us and you there is a great chasm fixed, so that those who want to cross from here to you cannot, nor can those who would cross from you to us.' Verse ConceptsHell, As An ExperienceGehennaProbation PeriodGapsUnable To Do Other ThingsOccupants Of HellPurgatorybridges

For if we sin wilfully, after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains any other sacrifice for sins, Verse ConceptsAbandonmentKnowing God's TruthThe Truth Of The GospelContinuing In SinSacrificePersistenceconsequencesapostasy


suffering wrong as the wage of wrong which they have done. These are men who count it pleasure to carouse in open daylight; they are spots and blemishes reveling in their deceit, even while they are feasting with you. Verse ConceptsDaylightExcessBlemishLove FeastLove, Nature OfWagesPleasure SeekersRiotsBlemished PeopleDuring The DayWages For EvilPartying

For if the word uttered through angels stood firm, so that every transgression and act of disobedience met with its just retribution, how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation? Verse ConceptsAngels as God's servantsDisobedience, To GodThe Recompense Of The WickedAngels Giving The LawGod Has RequitedAngels As MediatorsAngels Activities Among Believers





And if your eye, your right eye, entices you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you. It is better for you to lose one of your bodily organs, than to have your whole body go down into the pit. Verse ConceptsBodily LimbsBlindness, SymbolicHell, Punishment OfSelf DenialSelf DisciplinePriorityEyes, GuardedProfitable ThingsPlucking OutCausing Others To StumbleEyes HarmedOther Right PartsThe Entrance Of SinUseful ThingsAbusive RelationshipsHellEyesInfidelityLust Of The Eyes

This saying is trustworthy. On this I want you to firmly insist; that those who have faith in God must be careful to maintain honest occupations. Such counsels are good and profitable for men. Verse ConceptseagernessProfitsWork, And RedemptionProfitable ThingsFaithful SayingsBelief In GodDo Good!Useful ThingsWorks Of FaithAnxiety And StressWork Ethic



If any man's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, as it were through the flames. Verse ConceptsSpiritual FailureFire Of JudgementBemalosing a loved oneLosing SomeonePurgatorysmoking

Then you ought to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back my property with interest. So take away the talent from him, and give it to the man who has ten talents.

(For to every one who has, it shall be given, and he shall have abundance; but from him who has not shall be taken away even what he has.) Verse ConceptsTalentsAbundance, SpiritualPossessingAdding BlessingThose To Whom God GivesTaking God's ThingsGifts And TalentsAbundance


"Not many days after that the younger son gathered everything together and took his journey into a distant country; and there he wasted his money on living unsavingly. Verse ConceptsGluttonyExtravaganceExcessBad Decision Making ExamplesBuying and sellingLeisure, Nature And Purpose OfLossThriftWantonnessDeparturesA Short TimeFar From HereShort Time Till The EndThey Committed Immorality

"But he who listens but does not do, is like a man who built a house upon the soil, without foundations, against which the torrent burst, and at once it fell in, and the ruin of that house was great." Verse ConceptsFools, In Teaching Of Jesus ChristCarelessnessLossShallownessHearing ChristThings Falling