Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Company » Who not to have company with
Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks disorderly, and not after the teaching which he received from us.
Everyone transgressing and not abiding in the doctrine of Christ does not have God. He who abides in the doctrine of Christ, he has both the Father and the Son. If anyone comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into your house, nor speak a greeting to him. For he who speaks a greeting to him is partaker of his evil deeds.
Make no friendship with an angry man; and you shall not go up with a man of fury, lest you learn his ways and get a snare to your soul.
Do not be among those who drink much wine, among gluttons for flesh for themselves, for the drunkard and the glutton lose all, and sleepiness shall clothe a man with rags.
Do not be jealous of evil men, nor desire to be with them. For their heart studies ruin, and their lips talk of mischief.
I wrote to you in the letter not to associate intimately with fornicators; yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then you must go out of the world. But now I have written to you not to associate intimately, if any man called a brother and is either a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one not to eat. read more.
For what is it to me to also judge those who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside? But God judges those who are outside. Therefore put out from you the evil one.
For what is it to me to also judge those who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside? But God judges those who are outside. Therefore put out from you the evil one.
If anyone teaches otherwise, and does not consent to wholesome words (those of our Lord Jesus Christ), and to the doctrine according to godliness, he is proud, knowing nothing. He is sick concerning doubts and arguments, from which comes envy, strife, evil speakings, evil suspicions, meddling, of men whose minds have been corrupted and deprived of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness. Withdraw from such.
Drunkenness » Drunks
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging, and whoever goes astray by it is not wise.
Woe to those who rise up early in the morning to go after strong drink; tarrying in the twilight while wine inflames them! And the lyre, and the harp, the timbrel, and pipe, and wine, are at their feasts; but they do not regard the work of Jehovah. Yea, they do not see the work of His hands.
Do not be among those who drink much wine, among gluttons for flesh for themselves, for the drunkard and the glutton lose all, and sleepiness shall clothe a man with rags.
For those sleeping sleep in the night, and those being drunken are drunken in the night.
As a thorn goes up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
But they also have sinned through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way. The priest and the prophet have sinned through drink; they are swallowed up by wine; they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
Drunkenness » Leads to » Poverty
He who loves pleasure shall be a poor man; he who loves wine and oil shall not be rich.
for the drunkard and the glutton lose all, and sleepiness shall clothe a man with rags.
Gluttony » Leads to » Poverty
for the drunkard and the glutton lose all, and sleepiness shall clothe a man with rags.
Greed/gluttony » Gluttons
Do not be among those who drink much wine, among gluttons for flesh for themselves, for the drunkard and the glutton lose all, and sleepiness shall clothe a man with rags.
Indolent sleep » The love of sleep, a mark of indolence
He who gathers in summer is a wise son; but he who sleeps in harvest is a son who causes shame.
Do not love sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes and you shall be satisfied with bread.
Laziness throws one into a deep sleep, and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
for the drunkard and the glutton lose all, and sleepiness shall clothe a man with rags.
How long will you sleep, O sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep? A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to lie down;
Laziness » What laziness does
Do not be among those who drink much wine, among gluttons for flesh for themselves, for the drunkard and the glutton lose all, and sleepiness shall clothe a man with rags.
Laziness throws one into a deep sleep, and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
By slothfulness the building decays; and through lowering of the hands the house leaks.
The poor » Condition of, often results from » Drunkenness and gluttony
for the drunkard and the glutton lose all, and sleepiness shall clothe a man with rags.
Poverty » Who will end up in poverty
He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he pursuing vanities shall have poverty enough.
He who loves pleasure shall be a poor man; he who loves wine and oil shall not be rich.
Do not love sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes and you shall be satisfied with bread.
He who crushes the poor to multiply for himself, and he who gives to the rich, only to come to poverty.
He who deals with a lazy hand becomes poor; but the hand of the hard worker makes rich.
The soul of the sluggard desires and has nothing; but the soul of the hard worker shall be made fat.
Do not be among those who drink much wine, among gluttons for flesh for themselves, for the drunkard and the glutton lose all, and sleepiness shall clothe a man with rags.
I went by the field of the lazy man, and by the vineyard of the man without understanding; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face of it, and its stone wall was broken down. Then I saw; I set my heart on it; I looked and I received instruction. read more.
A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to lie down; then your poverty comes stalking, and your want like a man armed with a shield.
A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to lie down; then your poverty comes stalking, and your want like a man armed with a shield.
Poverty » Contributing causes of sinful » Drunkenness and gluttony
for the drunkard and the glutton lose all, and sleepiness shall clothe a man with rags.
then your poverty comes stalking, and your want like a man armed with a shield.
Serpents » Illustrative » (poisonous bite of,) of baneful effects of wine
for the drunkard and the glutton lose all, and sleepiness shall clothe a man with rags.
Sleep » The love of, a mark of indolence
He who gathers in summer is a wise son; but he who sleeps in harvest is a son who causes shame.
Do not love sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes and you shall be satisfied with bread.
Laziness throws one into a deep sleep, and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
for the drunkard and the glutton lose all, and sleepiness shall clothe a man with rags.
How long will you sleep, O sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep? A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to lie down;