Thematic Bible


Thematic Bible



A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calls for stripes. A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.

He loves transgression who loves strife. He who raises high his gate seeks destruction. Verse ConceptsdisagreementsLove, Abuse OfWorldly AmbitionDissensionContentiousnessQuarrelsSelf ExaltationLoving Evil


[As] coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to inflame strife. Verse ConceptsArguingDissensionContentiousnessCharcoal


[and men] who devise mischievous things in their heart. They gather themselves continually together for war. Verse ConceptsInjustice, Nature And Source OfPlansEvil PlansHeart, Of Unregenerate PeopleQuarrelsDissensionContentiousnessPrinciples Of WarWar

A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calls for stripes. Verse ConceptsFolly, Effects OfFloggingQuarrelsFools, Characteristics OfDissensionContentiousnessWhipsFools

Why do thou show me iniquity, and look upon perverseness? For destruction and violence are before me, and there is strife, and contention rises up. Verse ConceptsDissensionContentiousnessDestructionViolence In The EarthFighting One AnotherWhy Does God Do This?Injustice

He loves transgression who loves strife. He who raises high his gate seeks destruction. Verse ConceptsdisagreementsLove, Abuse OfWorldly AmbitionDissensionContentiousnessQuarrelsSelf ExaltationLoving Evil


[As] coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to inflame strife. Verse ConceptsArguingDissensionContentiousnessCharcoal


[and men] who devise mischievous things in their heart. They gather themselves continually together for war. Verse ConceptsInjustice, Nature And Source OfPlansEvil PlansHeart, Of Unregenerate PeopleQuarrelsDissensionContentiousnessPrinciples Of WarWar

A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calls for stripes. Verse ConceptsFolly, Effects OfFloggingQuarrelsFools, Characteristics OfDissensionContentiousnessWhipsFools

Why do thou show me iniquity, and look upon perverseness? For destruction and violence are before me, and there is strife, and contention rises up. Verse ConceptsDissensionContentiousnessDestructionViolence In The EarthFighting One AnotherWhy Does God Do This?Injustice

A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calls for stripes. Verse ConceptsFolly, Effects OfFloggingQuarrelsFools, Characteristics OfDissensionContentiousnessWhipsFools

A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calls for stripes. Verse ConceptsFolly, Effects OfFloggingQuarrelsFools, Characteristics OfDissensionContentiousnessWhipsFools

A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calls for stripes. A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.

And the agent of LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said, I made you go up out of Egypt, and have brought you to the land which I swore to your fathers. And I said, I will never break my covenant with you. And ye shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land. Ye shall break down their altars. But ye have not hearkened to my voice. Why have ye done this? Therefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you, but they shall be [as thorns] in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you.

but mingled themselves with the nations, and learned their works, and served their idols, which became a snare to them.

And thou shall consume all the peoples that LORD thy God shall deliver to thee. Thine eye shall not pity them. Neither shall thou serve their gods, for that will be a snare to thee. Verse ConceptsTrapEvil TrappingDo Not Have Other godsShow No Mercypity

And I will set thy border from the Red Sea even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River. For I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and thou shall drive them out before thee. Thou shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me, for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to thee.

Observe thou that which I command thee this day. Behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite. Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where thou go, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee.

Take good heed therefore to yourselves, that ye love LORD your God. Else if ye do at all go back, and cling to the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you, know for a certainty that LORD your God will no more drive these nations from out of your sight, but they shall be a snare and a trap to you, and a scourge in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good

It is a snare to a man to say rashly, [It is] holy. And to make inquiry after vows. Verse ConceptsCarelessnessPromises, HumanTrapVowsVowsWorldly SnaresMaking VowsDo Not Be RashMaking DecisionsDecision Making

But I say to you, that every idle word, whatever men may speak, they will render account about it in the day of judgment. For from thy words thou will be justified, and from thy words thou will be condemned.

A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calls for stripes. A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.


For in the multitude of dreams there are vanities, and in many words. But fear thou God. Verse ConceptsBad DreamsDaydreamingMan's Conduct Towards GodMisleading DreamsPeople Being SilentFear God!

[As] a thorn that goes up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools. Verse ConceptsProverbsWise Proverbsdrunkards




The heart of him who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouth of fools feeds on folly. Verse ConceptsFolly, Effects OfStudyKnowledgeSeeking For Abstract ThingsValuing Knowledge


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Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of a foolish man is a present destruction. Verse ConceptsBabblingSpeech, Power And Significance OfThriftTroubleDestructionValuing KnowledgeStoring Other Things

The lips of the wise disperse knowledge, but the heart of the foolish, not so. Verse ConceptsLipsIntellectual KnowledgeValuing Knowledge


The legs of a lame man hang loose. So is a parable in the mouth of fools. Verse ConceptsFools, Characteristics OfLamenessLegsProverbsWise Proverbs


O that ye would altogether be silent! And it would be your wisdom. Verse ConceptsSilenceHow Silence Is WiseMan's Wisdom

Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes thee that thou answer? I also could speak as ye do, if your soul were in my soul's stead. I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you.

Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? Verse ConceptsAdvice, Rejecting God's AdviceThose Who Were Ignorant

Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like to him. Verse ConceptsSpeech, Power And Significance OfLike Bad PeopleAnsweringFoolsChanging Yourselfanswers

Slander not a servant to his master, lest he curse thee, and thou be held guilty. Verse ConceptsInjuryServanthood, In SocietySlanderSlavescriticismgossipingaccusations

The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness, and the end of his talk is mischievous madness. A fool also multiplies words; [yet] man knows not what shall be, and that which shall be after him, who can tell him?

A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calls for stripes. A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.




Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of a foolish man is a present destruction. Verse ConceptsBabblingSpeech, Power And Significance OfThriftTroubleDestructionValuing KnowledgeStoring Other Things

The legs of a lame man hang loose. So is a parable in the mouth of fools. Verse ConceptsFools, Characteristics OfLamenessLegsProverbsWise Proverbs


The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious, but the lips of a fool will swallow himself up. The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness, and the end of his talk is mischievous madness. A fool also multiplies words; [yet] man knows not what shall be, and that which shall be after him, who can tell him?

A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calls for stripes. Verse ConceptsFolly, Effects OfFloggingQuarrelsFools, Characteristics OfDissensionContentiousnessWhipsFools