Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Belly » Used figuratively for the seat of the affections
A man's stomach is filled with the fruit of his mouth. With the harvest of his lips he is satisfied.
One of them, a prophet of their own, said, "Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and idle gluttons."
"Because he knew no quietness within him, he shall not save anything of that in which he delights.
The spirit of man is the LORD's lamp, searching all his innermost parts.
I heard, and my body trembled. My lips quivered at the voice. Rottenness enters into my bones, and I tremble in my place, because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble, for the coming up of the people who invade us.
He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water."
Chastisement » What chastening does
All discipline seems for the moment painful, not joyful; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.
Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.
Cleanness » What cleanses
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.
"I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor men who have sexual relations with men, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor swindlers, will inherit the Kingdom of God. Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.
But as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it; that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,
Disease » Instances of » Remedies used
Go up into Gilead, and take balm, virgin daughter of Egypt: in vain do you use many medicines; there is no healing for you.
Now Isaiah had said, "Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a poultice on the boil, and he shall recover."
A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
There is none to plead your cause, that you may be bound up: you have no healing medicines.
Evil » What cleanses away evil
Punishment » Minor offenses » Punishable by » Scourging
Penalties are prepared for scoffers, and beatings for the backs of fools.
Pilate, wishing to please the crowd, released Barabbas to them, and handed over Jesus, when he had flogged him, to be crucified.
the commanding officer commanded him to be brought into the barracks, ordering him to be examined by scourging, that he might know for what crime they yelled at him like that.
Immediately those who were about to examine him departed from him, and the commanding officer also was afraid when he realized that he was a Roman, because he had bound him.
"'If a man lies carnally with a woman who is a slave girl, pledged to be married to another man, and not ransomed, or given her freedom; they shall be punished. They shall not be put to death, because she was not free.
Then he released to them Barabbas, but Jesus he flogged and delivered to be crucified.
So Pilate then took Jesus, and flogged 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 wickedness, by number. Forty stripes he may give him, he shall not exceed; lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then your brother should seem vile to you.
Wounds » Treatment of
From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it: wounds, welts, and open sores. They haven't been closed, neither bandaged, neither soothed with oil.
came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. He set him on his own animal, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.