Thematic Bible


Thematic Bible



[It is] like a sport for a fool to do wrong, wisdom for a person of understanding. Verse ConceptsFools, Characteristics OfPleasureFools, Description OfMischiefDiscernmentFoolsSportsFunwickednessactingjoking

[It is] like a sport for a fool to do wrong, wisdom for a person of understanding. Verse ConceptsFools, Characteristics OfPleasureFools, Description OfMischiefDiscernmentFoolsSportsFunwickednessactingjoking

The [statement] of the true proverb has happened to them, "A dog returns to its own vomit," and "A sow, [after] washing herself, [returns] to wallowing in the mud." Verse ConceptsdogsWicked Described AsDegradationSwinePigsUnclean SpiritsOld SayingsUnclean AnimalsBacksliderspork

Like the grapes in the wilderness, I found Israel. Like early ripened fruit on the fig tree in the first season, I saw your ancestors. They themselves came [to] Baal Peor, and they consecrated themselves to shame. And they became detestable things, like {the thing they love}. Verse ConceptsFig treeBaal Worship, HistoryGrapesBaal Worship, Nature OfAbominations, Idolatry IsDisgustFirst ActionsFinding PeopleThings Like PeopleLoving EvilPotential Of Fruit

And this is the judgment: that the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone who practices evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds be exposed.

For they ate the bread of wickedness, and they drank the wine of violence. Verse ConceptsAlcoholBread, Figurative OfEating, Metaphorical UseWinePursuing Violencewickedness

Their hands [are] upon evil, to do [it] well; the official and the judge ask for the bribe, and the great [man] utters the evil desire of his soul; and they weave [it] together. Verse ConceptsGiftsAliancesAmbition, negative aspects ofWicked RulersJudgesPower, HumanReward, HumanSkillRulers, WickedCharacter Of WickedGuileAmbidextrousTwo Of Body PartsContinuing In SinLording It


in which also he went [and] proclaimed to the spirits in prison, who were formerly disobedient, when the patience of God waited in the days of Noah, [while] an ark was being constructed, in which a few--that is, eight souls--were rescued through water.

Like a dog returning to his vomit [is] a fool reverting to his folly. Verse ConceptsFolly, Effects OfdogsVomittingSin, Love OfWicked Described AsSinning RepeatedlyFoolspoop

{How much less} he who is abominable and corrupt, a man drinking wickedness like water. Verse ConceptsGodly Fear, DescriptionLove, Abuse OfMan's Sinful NatureAll Have Sinnedcorruption

Thus says Yahweh concerning this people: "They have loved so much to wander, they have not spared their feet. Therefore Yahweh is not favorable to them, now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins." Verse ConceptsIniquity, God's Attitude TowardRestlessnessRestraintSelf ControlWhy Prayer Is UnansweredUnanswered PrayerWanderersGod Remembering SinLoving Evil

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He who winks his eyes [does so in order] to plan perverse things; he who purses his lips will bring evil to pass. Verse ConceptsLipsEvil DevicesPlottingWinkingMoving Onmovement

[It is] like a sport for a fool to do wrong, wisdom for a person of understanding. Verse ConceptsFools, Characteristics OfPleasureFools, Description OfMischiefDiscernmentFoolsSportsFunwickednessactingjoking

because they despised my judgments, and {they did not walk in my statutes}, and my Sabbaths they profaned, for their heart was going after their idols. Verse ConceptsRejecting ThingsNature Of IdolatrySabbath ViolatedThey Do Not Keep Commands

"Though wickedness tastes sweet in his mouth, [and] he hides it under his tongue, [though] he spares it and does not let it go [and] holds it back in the midst of his palate,

{They feed on the sin of my people}, {they are greedy} for their iniquity. Verse ConceptsContinuing In Sin