Thematic Bible




Thematic Bible



A wicked messenger falls into trouble,
but a trustworthy courier brings healing.

sends couriers by sea,
in reed vessels on the waters.


Go, swift messengers,
to a nation tall and smooth-skinned,
to a people feared far and near,
a powerful nation with a strange language,
whose land is divided by rivers.

For though his princes are at Zoan
and his messengers reach as far as Hanes,

Listen! Their warriors cry loudly in the streets;
the messengers of peace weep bitterly.

Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Don’t speak to us in Hebrew within earshot of the people who are on the wall.”

At that time Merodach-baladan son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah since he heard that he had been sick and had recovered. Hezekiah was pleased with them, and showed them his treasure house-the silver, the gold, the spices, and the precious oil-and all his armory, and everything that was found in his treasuries. There was nothing in his palace and in all his realm that Hezekiah did not show them.

If not, while the other is still far off, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace.



A wicked messenger falls into trouble,
but a trustworthy courier brings healing.


To those who send him, a trustworthy messenger
is like the coolness of snow on a harvest day;
he refreshes the life of his masters.

I assure you: If anyone says to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him.


Whoever is faithful in very little is also faithful in much, and whoever is unrighteous in very little is also unrighteous in much. So if you have not been faithful with the unrighteous money, who will trust you with what is genuine? And if you have not been faithful with what belongs to someone else, who will give you what is your own?

Just as Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness, so understand that those who have faith are Abraham's sons.


A wicked messenger falls into trouble,
but a trustworthy courier brings healing.

To those who send him, a trustworthy messenger
is like the coolness of snow on a harvest day;
he refreshes the life of his masters.


A wicked messenger falls into trouble,
but a trustworthy courier brings healing.



A wicked messenger falls into trouble,
but a trustworthy courier brings healing.


Though a righteous man falls seven times,
he will get up,
but the wicked will stumble into ruin.

You were secure in your wickedness; you said: No one sees me. Your wisdom and knowledge led you astray. You said to yourself: I, and no one else. But disaster will happen to you; you will not know how to avert it. And it will fall on you, but you will be unable to ward it off. Devastation will happen to you suddenly and unexpectedly.

The one who searches for what is good finds favor,
but if someone looks for trouble, it will come to him.

One with a twisted mind will not succeed,
and one with deceitful speech will fall into ruin.