Thematic Bible




Thematic Bible



“Listen to another parable: There was a man, a landowner, who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a watchtower. He leased it to tenant farmers and went away.

Your court officials are like the swarming locust,
and your scribes like clouds of locusts,
which settle on the walls on a cold day;
when the sun rises, they take off,
and no one knows where they are.

Now I will tell you
what I am about to do to My vineyard:
I will remove its hedge,
and it will be consumed;
I will tear down its wall,
and it will be trampled.

The one who digs a pit may fall into it,
and the one who breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.

A slacker’s way is like a thorny hedge,
but the path of the upright is a highway.

Therefore, this is what I will do:
I will block her way with thorns;
I will enclose her with a wall,
so that she cannot find her paths.


A slacker’s way is like a thorny hedge,
but the path of the upright is a highway.


A slacker’s way is like a thorny hedge,
but the path of the upright is a highway.


A slacker’s way is like a thorny hedge,
but the path of the upright is a highway.






The slacker says, “There’s a lion outside!
I’ll be killed in the public square!”

A slacker’s way is like a thorny hedge,
but the path of the upright is a highway.


I went by the field of a slacker and by the vineyard of a man lacking sense. Thistles had come up everywhere, weeds covered the ground, and the stone wall was ruined. I saw, and took it to heart; I looked, and received instruction: read more.
a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the arms to rest, and your poverty will come like a robber, your need, like a bandit.

Idle hands make one poor, but diligent hands bring riches. The son who gathers during summer is prudent; the son who sleeps during harvest is disgraceful.

A slacker's craving will kill him because his hands refuse to work. He is filled with craving all day long, but the righteous give and don't hold back.

The slacker says, "There's a lion in the road- a lion in the public square!" A door turns on its hinge, and a slacker, on his bed. The slacker buries his hand in the bowl; he is too weary to bring it to his mouth. read more.
In his own eyes, a slacker is wiser than seven men who can answer sensibly.


As for you, lift up your staff, stretch out your hand over the sea, and divide it so that the Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground.

and whenever you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear this command behind you: “This is the way. Walk in it.”

A slacker’s way is like a thorny hedge,
but the path of the upright is a highway.

I will lead the blind by a way they did not know;
I will guide them on paths they have not known.
I will turn darkness to light in front of them
and rough places into level ground.
This is what I will do for them,
and I will not forsake them.

When Pharaoh’s horses with his chariots and horsemen went into the sea, the Lord brought the waters of the sea back over them. But the Israelites walked through the sea on dry ground.

The priests carrying the ark of the Lord’s covenant stood firmly on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan, while all Israel crossed on dry ground until the entire nation had finished crossing the Jordan.

I will make all My mountains into a road,
and My highways will be raised up.

This is what the Lord says—
who makes a way in the sea,
and a path through surging waters,