Thematic Bible


Thematic Bible



A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back. Verse ConceptsFolly, Effects OfBridlesBackBeatingsWhipsWhippingBinding As Animals

In the lips of the prudent wisdom is found and is a rod unto the back of him that is void of understanding. Verse ConceptsBackParental DisciplineLipsProverbsMan's WisdomDiscernment




The great God that formed all things rewards both the fool and transgressors. Verse ConceptsChanceHiringWounds

The scars of past wounds are medicine for evil, and living reproof reaches the most secret places in the inward parts. Verse ConceptsPurgingThe Inward BeingWoundsspankingscars



the tribunal commanded him to be brought into the fortress and bade that he should be examined by scourging that he might know why they cried out so against him. Verse ConceptsScourgingInterrogatingChiliarchsWhy Do Others Do This?serenity

Then straightway those who should have tormented him departed from him, and the tribunal was also afraid, after he knew that he was a Roman and because he had bound him. Verse ConceptsChainsTying UpCitizens

And when a man lies carnally with a woman that is a bondmaid, betrothed to a husband and has not been completely ransomed nor been given her freedom, both shall be scourged; they shall not be put to death because she is not free. Verse ConceptsBeatingsEngagementServants Of PeopleLaws Of Sexual UnionAdulteryDeath Penalty For Sexual Sin



Then the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him; Verse ConceptsWhippingJudicial Punishment

And it shall be if the wicked man is worthy to be beaten the judge shall cause him to lie down and to be beaten in his presence, according to his fault, by a certain number. Forty stripes he may give him and not exceed lest if he should exceed and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should be despised before thee.

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Reproof is of more benefit to a wise man than a hundred stripes to a fool. Verse ConceptsFloggingRebukeOne HundredAdvice On Beating PeopleReproving PeopleDiscernmentrebuking

I will therefore chastise him and release him. Verse ConceptsJudicial PunishmentPeople Releasing Others

Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. Verse ConceptsMockeryRidicule, Nature OfScoffersWorldly Snaresmockers



Therefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that have taken rule over this people which is in Jerusalem. Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol we are at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood we have hid ourselves:


The scorner sought wisdom and found it not, but wisdom comes easy unto him that understands. Verse ConceptsFools, Characteristics OfMockeryRidicule, Nature OfInfidelity To GodIntellectual KnowledgeValuing Knowledgemockers


The curse of the LORD is in the house of the wicked, but he shall bless the habitation of the just. Surely he scorns the scorners; but he gives grace unto the humble.

The scorner does not love the one that reproves him, neither will he go unto the wise. Verse ConceptsadvisersMockeryResentment, Against GodWisdom, Human ImportanceResentmentScoffersRejecting Reproofmockers


Therefore, he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age; he gave them all into his hands. Verse ConceptsKingsProphecy, Fulfilment Of OtArmies, Against IsraelBrutality

For the violent one shall be done away with, and the scorner shall be consumed, and all those that rose early unto iniquity shall be cut off: Verse ConceptsCruelty, God's attitude toMockeryInfidelity To GodUncharitablenessWatching To EntrapPeople EndedScoffersmockers

Tau Render unto them a recompense, O LORD, according to the work of their hands. Tau Give them sorrow of heart; thy curse unto them. Tau Persecute them in thy anger and cut them off from under the heavens, oh LORD.