Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Deliverance » What delivers
Don't withhold discipline from a child; if you punish him with a rod, he won't die. Punish him with a rod, and you will rescue his soul from Sheol.
Wealth won't help in the time of judgment, but righteousness will deliver from death.
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For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul. Discretion will protect you; understanding will watch over you, delivering you from the way of evil, from men who speak perverse things,
Nothing good comes from ill-gotten wealth, but righteousness delivers from death.
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Profit » What is not profitable
It's the Spirit who gives life; the flesh accomplishes nothing. The words that I've spoken to you are spirit and life.
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"Where is the benefit in owning a carved image, that motivates its maker to carve it? It is only a cast image a teacher that lies because the engraver entrusts himself to his carving, crafting speechless idols. "Woe to the one who says to a tree, "Wake up!' or "Arise!' to a speechless stone. Idols like this can't teach, can they? Look, even though it is overlaid with gold and silver, there's no breath in it at all."
Nothing good comes from ill-gotten wealth, but righteousness delivers from death.
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Has a nation ever changed gods when they aren't even gods? But my people have exchanged their glory for that which does not profit.
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because what profit will a person have if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life? Or what can a person give in exchange for his life?
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What profit will a person have if he gains the whole world, but destroys himself or is lost?
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Now, all the forming of images means nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Their own witnesses cannot see, and they know nothing. So they will be put to shame. Who would shape a god or cast an image that profits nothing?
"But as for you, come here, you children of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes! Whom are you mocking? And against whom do you make a wide mouth and stick out your tongue? Are you not children of transgression, the offspring of lies, you who burn with lust among the oaks, under every spreading tree, who slaughter your children in the ravines, under the clefts of the rocks? read more.
"Among the smooth stones of the ravines is your portion there they are as your lot. To them you have poured out drink offerings; you have brought grain offerings. Should I be lenient over such things? "You have made your bed on a high and lofty mountain, and you went up to offer sacrifice there. Behind the doors and the doorposts you have set up your pagan sign." For in deserting me you have uncovered your bed you have climbed up into it and have opened it wide. And you have made a pact for yourself with them; you have loved their bed, you have looked on their private parts. You went to Molech with olive oil and increased your perfumes; you sent your ambassadors far away, you sent them down even to Sheol itself! You grew tired with your many wanderings, but you wouldn't say: "It is hopeless.' You found new strength for your desire, and so you did not falter. "Whom did you so dread and while you feared me that you lied, and you did not remember me, and did not lay to heart these things? Haven't I remained silent for a long time, and still you don't fear me?" "I will denounce your righteousness and your works, for your collections of idols will not benefit you.
"Among the smooth stones of the ravines is your portion there they are as your lot. To them you have poured out drink offerings; you have brought grain offerings. Should I be lenient over such things? "You have made your bed on a high and lofty mountain, and you went up to offer sacrifice there. Behind the doors and the doorposts you have set up your pagan sign." For in deserting me you have uncovered your bed you have climbed up into it and have opened it wide. And you have made a pact for yourself with them; you have loved their bed, you have looked on their private parts. You went to Molech with olive oil and increased your perfumes; you sent your ambassadors far away, you sent them down even to Sheol itself! You grew tired with your many wanderings, but you wouldn't say: "It is hopeless.' You found new strength for your desire, and so you did not falter. "Whom did you so dread and while you feared me that you lied, and you did not remember me, and did not lay to heart these things? Haven't I remained silent for a long time, and still you don't fear me?" "I will denounce your righteousness and your works, for your collections of idols will not benefit you.
LORD, my strength and my stronghold, my refuge in a time of difficulty, to you the nations will come, and from the ends of the earth they'll say, "Surely our ancestors inherited deception, things that are worthless, and in which there is no profit." Can a person make a god for himself? They are not gods!
What profit will a person have if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life? Indeed, what can a person give in exchange for his life?
Profit and loss » Profit » Sin unprofitable, general references to
They have sown wheat, but they have harvested thorns. They have tired themselves out, but they don't show a profit. Now be disappointed about your harvest because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
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Why spend your money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in rich food.
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"He'll sing to mankind with these words: "I've sinned. I have twisted what is right. Yet he has not repaid me like I deserve.
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Nothing good comes from ill-gotten wealth, but righteousness delivers from death.
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because what profit will a person have if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life? Or what can a person give in exchange for his life?
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What profit will a person have if he gains the whole world, but destroys himself or is lost?
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Don't turn aside after useless things that cannot profit or deliver because they're useless.
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For the wicked man has no future; the lamp of the wicked will be extinguished.
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Now, all the forming of images means nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Their own witnesses cannot see, and they know nothing. So they will be put to shame.
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Sin » Unpardonable, the » Unprofitable
They have sown wheat, but they have harvested thorns. They have tired themselves out, but they don't show a profit. Now be disappointed about your harvest because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
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Why spend your money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in rich food.
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"He'll sing to mankind with these words: "I've sinned. I have twisted what is right. Yet he has not repaid me like I deserve.
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Nothing good comes from ill-gotten wealth, but righteousness delivers from death.
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because what profit will a person have if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life? Or what can a person give in exchange for his life?
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What profit will a person have if he gains the whole world, but destroys himself or is lost?
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Don't turn aside after useless things that cannot profit or deliver because they're useless.
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For the wicked man has no future; the lamp of the wicked will be extinguished.
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Now, all the forming of images means nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Their own witnesses cannot see, and they know nothing. So they will be put to shame.
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The fruit of righteousness » What righteousness does
Wealth won't help in the time of judgment, but righteousness will deliver from death.
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Nothing good comes from ill-gotten wealth, but righteousness delivers from death.
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Righteousness makes a nation great, but sin diminishes any people.
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Your wickedness affects only yourself; and your righteousness, only human beings.
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Righteousness protects the blameless, but wickedness brings down the sinner.
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Vanity » Treasures of wickedness are
Nothing good comes from ill-gotten wealth, but righteousness delivers from death.
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Wealth » Treasures of wickedness
Better is the little that the righteous have than the abundance of many wicked people.
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Nothing good comes from ill-gotten wealth, but righteousness delivers from death.
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Are there still wicked treasures in the house of the wicked, along with deceitful and abominable measuring standards? Will I tolerate those who maintain deceptive standards and who use deceitful weights in their business? Her rich people are filled with violence, and her inhabitants tell lies their tongues speak deceitfully!
Wickedness » Treasures of wickedness
Better is the little that the righteous have than the abundance of many wicked people.
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Nothing good comes from ill-gotten wealth, but righteousness delivers from death.
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Are there still wicked treasures in the house of the wicked, along with deceitful and abominable measuring standards? Will I tolerate those who maintain deceptive standards and who use deceitful weights in their business? Her rich people are filled with violence, and her inhabitants tell lies their tongues speak deceitfully!