Thematic Bible




Thematic Bible



A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the fool's back.

In the lips of him that has understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.





The great God that formed all things gives the fool his hire, and the transgressor his wages.


Blows of a wound cleanse away evil: as do stripes the inner depths of the heart.



The chief captain commanded him to be brought into the barracks, and bade that he should be examined by scourging; that he might know why they cried so against him.

Then immediately they departed from him who should have examined him: and the chief captain also was afraid, after he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.

And whosoever lies carnally with a woman, that is a slave, betrothed to a husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; there shall be punishment; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free.



And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him;

And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, 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 more than these with many stripes, then your brother should seem degraded unto you.


Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath.



Therefore hear the word of the LORD, you scornful men, that rule this people who are in Jerusalem. Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with sheol are we 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 have we hid ourselves:


A scoffer seeks wisdom, and finds it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understands.


The curse of the LORD is in the house of the wicked: but he blesses the habitation of the just. Surely he scorns the scornful: but he gives grace unto the lowly.




Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed 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 was stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand.

For the ruthless one is brought to nothing, and the scoffer is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:

Render unto them a recompense, O LORD, according to the work of their hands. Give them sorrow of heart, your curse unto them. Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.