Thematic Bible


Thematic Bible







And the tongue is a fire, the tongue is made a world of wickedness among our members, it defiles the whole body and sets on fire the course of nature and is set on fire by hell. Verse Conceptsevil, origins ofHell, As Incentive To ActionThe Human BodyGehennaDamage To The BodyFire Of EvilPeople Being PollutedBeware Of Your SpeechMighty in its influenceThe TongueThe Power Of Words


SIMEON Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us by the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ. Grace and peace be multiplied to you by a knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. As his divine power has given us all things which pertain to life and piety, through the knowledge of him that has called us to his own glory and virtue, read more.
through which have been given us very great and precious promises, that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption which is in the world by inordinate desire, and for the same purpose also, giving all diligence add to your faith virtue, and to virtue knowledge, and to knowledge temperance, and to temperance patience, and to patience piety, and to piety brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. For if these are in you and abound, they will make you not inactive nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ; for a man that is without these is blind, not seeing to a distance, and has forgotten the purification from his former errors.





But we know that the law is good if one uses it lawfully; knowing this, that a law is not made for a righteous man, but for the wicked and disorderly, the impious and sinful, the unholy and profane, murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers and murderers of their fellow-men,