Thematic Bible


Thematic Bible



A fool's lips come into strife, and his mouth invites beatings. A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are a snare to his soul.

He who loves disobedience loves strife. One who builds a high 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 kindling strife. Verse ConceptsArguingDissensionContentiousnessCharcoal


those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war. Verse ConceptsInjustice, Nature And Source OfPlansEvil PlansHeart, Of Unregenerate PeopleQuarrelsDissensionContentiousnessPrinciples Of WarWar


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

He who loves disobedience loves strife. One who builds a high 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 kindling strife. Verse ConceptsArguingDissensionContentiousnessCharcoal


those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war. Verse ConceptsInjustice, Nature And Source OfPlansEvil PlansHeart, Of Unregenerate PeopleQuarrelsDissensionContentiousnessPrinciples Of WarWar


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



A fool's lips come into strife, and his mouth invites beatings. A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are a snare to his soul.

The angel of Yahweh came up from Gilgal to Bochim. He said, "I made you to 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 you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall break down their altars.' But you have not listened to my voice: why have you 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 mixed themselves with the nations, and learned their works. They served their idols, which became a snare to them.

You shall consume all the peoples whom Yahweh your God shall deliver to you; your eye shall not pity them: neither shall you serve their gods; for that will be a snare to you. Verse ConceptsTrapEvil TrappingDo Not Have Other godsShow No Mercypity

I will set your 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 you shall drive them out before you. You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you."

Observe that which I command you this day. Behold, I drive out before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite. Be careful, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be for a snare in the midst of you:

Take good heed therefore to yourselves, that you love Yahweh your God. "But if you do at all go back, and hold fast to the remnant of these nations, even these who remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you; know for a certainty that Yahweh your God will no longer drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap to you, a scourge in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which Yahweh your God has given you.

It is a snare to a man to make a rash dedication, then later to consider his vows. Verse ConceptsCarelessnessPromises, HumanTrapVowsVowsWorldly SnaresMaking VowsDo Not Be RashMaking DecisionsDecision Making

I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment. For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned."

A fool's lips come into strife, and his mouth invites beatings. A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are a snare to his soul.


For in the multitude of dreams there are vanities, as well as in many words: but you must fear God. Verse ConceptsBad DreamsDaydreamingMan's Conduct Towards GodMisleading DreamsPeople Being SilentFear God!

Like a thornbush that goes into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools. Verse ConceptsProverbsWise Proverbsdrunkards



Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him. Verse ConceptsContemplationActionsFalse HopesHope, Nature OfRashnessHow Silence Is WiseDo Not Be RashWithout HopeFoolsDecision Making

The heart of one who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouths of fools feed on folly. Verse ConceptsFolly, Effects OfStudyKnowledgeSeeking For Abstract ThingsValuing Knowledge


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The lips of the wise spread knowledge; not so with the heart of fools. Verse ConceptsLipsIntellectual KnowledgeValuing Knowledge


Like the legs of the lame that hang loose: so is a parable in the mouth of fools. Verse ConceptsFools, Characteristics OfLamenessLegsProverbsWise Proverbs


Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise. Verse ConceptsSilenceHow Silence Is WiseMan's Wisdom

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

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

Don't answer a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him. Verse ConceptsSpeech, Power And Significance OfLike Bad PeopleAnsweringFoolsChanging Yourselfanswers

"Don't slander a servant to his master, lest he curse you, and you 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. Man doesn't know what will be; and that which will be after him, who can tell him?

A fool's lips come into strife, and his mouth invites beatings. A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are a snare to his soul.





Like the legs of the lame that 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 a fool is swallowed by his own lips. The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is mischievous madness. A fool also multiplies words. Man doesn't know what will be; and that which will be after him, who can tell him?