Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Desires » Evil
“Moreover, wine is treacherous and betrays the arrogant man,
So that he does not stay at home.
His appetite is large like Sheol,
And he is like death, never satisfied.
He gathers to himself all nations
And collects to himself all peoples [as if he owned them].
Among these [unbelievers] we all once lived in the passions of our flesh [our behavior governed by the sinful self], indulging the desires of human nature [without the Holy Spirit] and [the impulses] of the [sinful] mind. We were, by nature, children [under the sentence] of [God’s] wrath, just like the rest [of mankind].
Verse Concepts
The rabble among them [who followed Israel from Egypt] had greedy desires [for familiar and delicious food], and the Israelites wept again and said, “Who will give us meat to eat?
Verse Concepts
The soul of the wicked desires evil [like an addictive substance];
His neighbor finds no compassion in his eyes.
The leech has two daughters,
“Give, give!”
There are three things that are never satisfied,
Four that do not say, “It is enough”:
Now these things [the warnings and admonitions] took place as examples for us, so that we would not crave evil things as they did.
Verse Concepts
You are jealous and covet [what others have] and your lust goes unfulfilled; so you murder. You are envious and cannot obtain [the object of your envy]; so you fight and battle. You do not have because you do not ask [it of God].
Verse Concepts
For all that is in the world—the lust and sensual craving of the flesh and the lust and longing of the eyes and the boastful pride of life [pretentious confidence in one’s resources or in the stability of earthly things]—these do not come from the Father, but are from the world.
Verse Concepts
Desires » Who desires evil
The wicked desire the plunder of evil men,
But the root of the righteous yields richer fruit.
The soul of the wicked desires evil [like an addictive substance];
His neighbor finds no compassion in his eyes.
Evil » Results of » Desires
“Moreover, wine is treacherous and betrays the arrogant man,
So that he does not stay at home.
His appetite is large like Sheol,
And he is like death, never satisfied.
He gathers to himself all nations
And collects to himself all peoples [as if he owned them].
Among these [unbelievers] we all once lived in the passions of our flesh [our behavior governed by the sinful self], indulging the desires of human nature [without the Holy Spirit] and [the impulses] of the [sinful] mind. We were, by nature, children [under the sentence] of [God’s] wrath, just like the rest [of mankind].
Verse Concepts
The rabble among them [who followed Israel from Egypt] had greedy desires [for familiar and delicious food], and the Israelites wept again and said, “Who will give us meat to eat?
Verse Concepts
The soul of the wicked desires evil [like an addictive substance];
His neighbor finds no compassion in his eyes.
The leech has two daughters,
“Give, give!”
There are three things that are never satisfied,
Four that do not say, “It is enough”:
Now these things [the warnings and admonitions] took place as examples for us, so that we would not crave evil things as they did.
Verse Concepts
You are jealous and covet [what others have] and your lust goes unfulfilled; so you murder. You are envious and cannot obtain [the object of your envy]; so you fight and battle. You do not have because you do not ask [it of God].
Verse Concepts
For all that is in the world—the lust and sensual craving of the flesh and the lust and longing of the eyes and the boastful pride of life [pretentious confidence in one’s resources or in the stability of earthly things]—these do not come from the Father, but are from the world.
Verse Concepts
Evil » Who desires evil
The wicked desire the plunder of evil men,
But the root of the righteous yields richer fruit.
The soul of the wicked desires evil [like an addictive substance];
His neighbor finds no compassion in his eyes.