Thematic Bible


Thematic Bible



They are illustrations of this true proverb: "A dog returns to its own vomit," and "A sow, after washing herself, wallows in the mire." Verse ConceptsdogsWicked Described AsDegradationSwinePigsUnclean SpiritsOld SayingsUnclean AnimalsBacksliderspork

Like a dog that returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly. Verse ConceptsFolly, Effects OfdogsVomittingSin, Love OfWicked Described AsSinning RepeatedlyFoolspoop

Like a dog that returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly. Verse ConceptsFolly, Effects OfdogsVomittingSin, Love OfWicked Described AsSinning RepeatedlyFoolspoop

One dead fly makes the perfumer's ointment give off a rancid stench, so a little folly can outweigh much wisdom. Verse ConceptsFliesflyingbugs


Like a dog that returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly. Verse ConceptsFolly, Effects OfdogsVomittingSin, Love OfWicked Described AsSinning RepeatedlyFoolspoop

This is the destiny of fools, and of those who approve of their philosophy. (Selah) Verse ConceptsParticipation, In SinPsalm Interjectionsfate

The discerning heart seeks knowledge, but the mouth of fools feeds on folly. Verse ConceptsFolly, Effects OfStudyKnowledgeSeeking For Abstract ThingsValuing Knowledge

The one who gives an answer before he listens -- that is his folly and his shame. Verse ConceptsFolly, Effects OfSpeech, Positive Aspects OfCounselingAnsweringDo Not Be RashDiplomacyDecision Makinganswers

I realized that wisdom is preferable to folly, just as light is preferable to darkness: Verse ConceptsLight And DarknessBenefits Of Wisdom

Like a dog that returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly. Verse ConceptsFolly, Effects OfdogsVomittingSin, Love OfWicked Described AsSinning RepeatedlyFoolspoop

But false prophets arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. These false teachers will infiltrate your midst with destructive heresies, even to the point of denying the Master who bought them. As a result, they will bring swift destruction on themselves. And many will follow their debauched lifestyles. Because of these false teachers, the way of truth will be slandered. And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation pronounced long ago is not sitting idly by; their destruction is not asleep. read more.
For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but threw them into hell and locked them up in chains in utter darkness, to be kept until the judgment, and if he did not spare the ancient world, but did protect Noah, a herald of righteousness, along with seven others, when God brought a flood on an ungodly world, and if he turned to ashes the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah when he condemned them to destruction, having appointed them to serve as an example to future generations of the ungodly, and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man in anguish over the debauched lifestyle of lawless men, (for while he lived among them day after day, that righteous man was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard) -- if so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from their trials, and to reserve the unrighteous for punishment at the day of judgment, especially those who indulge their fleshly desires and who despise authority. Brazen and insolent, they are not afraid to insult the glorious ones, yet even angels, who are much more powerful, do not bring a slanderous judgment against them before the Lord. But these men, like irrational animals -- creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed -- do not understand whom they are insulting, and consequently in their destruction they will be destroyed, suffering harm as the wages for their harmful ways. By considering it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight, they are stains and blemishes, indulging in their deceitful pleasures when they feast together with you. Their eyes, full of adultery, never stop sinning; they entice unstable people. They have trained their hearts for greed, these cursed children! By forsaking the right path they have gone astray, because they followed the way of Balaam son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness, yet was rebuked for his own transgression (a dumb donkey, speaking with a human voice, restrained the prophet's madness). These men are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm, for whom the utter depths of darkness have been reserved. For by speaking high-sounding but empty words they are able to entice, with fleshly desires and with debauchery, people who have just escaped from those who reside in error. Although these false teachers promise such people freedom, they themselves are enslaved to immorality. For whatever a person succumbs to, to that he is enslaved. For if after they have escaped the filthy things of the world through the rich knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they again get entangled in them and succumb to them, their last state has become worse for them than their first. For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than, having known it, to turn back from the holy commandment that had been delivered to them. They are illustrations of this true proverb: "A dog returns to its own vomit," and "A sow, after washing herself, wallows in the mire."

If you should pound the fool in the mortar among the grain with the pestle, his foolishness would not depart from him. Verse ConceptsFolly, Effects OfGrindingBricksGrinding People

Like a dog that returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly. Verse ConceptsFolly, Effects OfdogsVomittingSin, Love OfWicked Described AsSinning RepeatedlyFoolspoop

They are illustrations of this true proverb: "A dog returns to its own vomit," and "A sow, after washing herself, wallows in the mire." Verse ConceptsdogsWicked Described AsDegradationSwinePigsUnclean SpiritsOld SayingsUnclean AnimalsBacksliderspork

When I found Israel, it was like finding grapes in the wilderness. I viewed your ancestors like an early fig on a fig tree in its first season. Then they came to Baal-Peor and they dedicated themselves to shame -- they became as detestable as what they loved. Verse ConceptsFig treeBaal Worship, HistoryGrapesBaal Worship, Nature OfAbominations, Idolatry IsDisgustFirst ActionsFinding PeopleThings Like PeopleLoving EvilPotential Of Fruit

Now this is the basis for judging: that the light has come into the world and people loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone who does evil deeds hates the light and does not come to the light, so that their deeds will not be exposed.

For they eat bread gained from wickedness and drink wine obtained from violence. Verse ConceptsAlcoholBread, Figurative OfEating, Metaphorical UseWinePursuing Violencewickedness

They are determined to be experts at doing evil; government officials and judges take bribes, prominent men make demands, and they all do what is necessary to satisfy them. Verse ConceptsGiftsAliancesAmbition, negative aspects ofWicked RulersJudgesPower, HumanReward, HumanSkillRulers, WickedCharacter Of WickedGuileAmbidextrousTwo Of Body PartsContinuing In SinLording It


In it he went and preached to the spirits in prison, after they were disobedient long ago when God patiently waited in the days of Noah as an ark was being constructed. In the ark a few, that is eight souls, were delivered through water.

Like a dog that returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly. Verse ConceptsFolly, Effects OfdogsVomittingSin, Love OfWicked Described AsSinning RepeatedlyFoolspoop

how much less man, who is abominable and corrupt, who drinks in evil like water! Verse ConceptsGodly Fear, DescriptionLove, Abuse OfMan's Sinful NatureAll Have Sinnedcorruption

Then the Lord spoke about these people. "They truly love to go astray. They cannot keep from running away from me. So I am not pleased with them. I will now call to mind the wrongs they have done and punish them for their sins." Verse ConceptsIniquity, God's Attitude TowardRestlessnessRestraintSelf ControlWhy Prayer Is UnansweredUnanswered PrayerWanderersGod Remembering SinLoving Evil

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The one who winks his eyes devises perverse things, and one who compresses his lips brings about evil. Verse ConceptsLipsEvil DevicesPlottingWinkingMoving Onmovement

Carrying out a wicked scheme is enjoyable to a fool, and so is wisdom for the one who has discernment. Verse ConceptsFools, Characteristics OfPleasureFools, Description OfMischiefDiscernmentFoolsSportsFunwickednessactingjoking

I did this because they rejected my regulations, did not follow my statutes, and desecrated my Sabbaths; for their hearts followed their idols. Verse ConceptsRejecting ThingsNature Of IdolatrySabbath ViolatedThey Do Not Keep Commands

"If evil is sweet in his mouth and he hides it under his tongue, if he retains it for himself and does not let it go, and holds it fast in his mouth,

They feed on the sin offerings of my people; their appetites long for their iniquity! Verse ConceptsContinuing In Sin



If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. But they no longer have any excuse for their sin. Verse ConceptsExcusesethics, basis ofResponsibility, To GodMisused PrivilegesThe Fact Of His Coming

Like a dog that returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly. Verse ConceptsFolly, Effects OfdogsVomittingSin, Love OfWicked Described AsSinning RepeatedlyFoolspoop



Jesus replied, "If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin, but now because you claim that you can see, your guilt remains." Verse ConceptsExcusesAge Of AccountabilityBlindnessGuilt

For if we deliberately keep on sinning after receiving the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins is left for us, Verse ConceptsAbandonmentKnowing God's TruthThe Truth Of The GospelContinuing In SinSacrificePersistenceconsequencesapostasy

That servant who knew his master's will but did not get ready or do what his master asked will receive a severe beating. But the one who did not know his master's will and did things worthy of punishment will receive a light beating. From everyone who has been given much, much will be required, and from the one who has been entrusted with much, even more will be asked.

But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast of your relationship to God and know his will and approve the superior things because you receive instruction from the law, and if you are convinced that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, read more.
an educator of the senseless, a teacher of little children, because you have in the law the essential features of knowledge and of the truth -- therefore you who teach someone else, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal? You who tell others not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? You who boast in the law dishonor God by transgressing the law!

For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than, having known it, to turn back from the holy commandment that had been delivered to them. They are illustrations of this true proverb: "A dog returns to its own vomit," and "A sow, after washing herself, wallows in the mire."

Do not give what is holy to dogs or throw your pearls before pigs; otherwise they will trample them under their feet and turn around and tear you to pieces. Verse ConceptsContemptdogsJewelsPrudenceAskingUngodlinessWasteWicked Described AsDespisersName CallingSwinePeople Torn To PiecesPigsUnfitting ThingsPetsHurt And Betrayalpork

They are illustrations of this true proverb: "A dog returns to its own vomit," and "A sow, after washing herself, wallows in the mire." Verse ConceptsdogsWicked Described AsDegradationSwinePigsUnclean SpiritsOld SayingsUnclean AnimalsBacksliderspork

Like a dog that returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly. Verse ConceptsFolly, Effects OfdogsVomittingSin, Love OfWicked Described AsSinning RepeatedlyFoolspoop

Do not give what is holy to dogs or throw your pearls before pigs; otherwise they will trample them under their feet and turn around and tear you to pieces. Verse ConceptsContemptdogsJewelsPrudenceAskingUngodlinessWasteWicked Described AsDespisersName CallingSwinePeople Torn To PiecesPigsUnfitting ThingsPetsHurt And Betrayalpork

They are illustrations of this true proverb: "A dog returns to its own vomit," and "A sow, after washing herself, wallows in the mire." Verse ConceptsdogsWicked Described AsDegradationSwinePigsUnclean SpiritsOld SayingsUnclean AnimalsBacksliderspork

Like a dog that returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly. Verse ConceptsFolly, Effects OfdogsVomittingSin, Love OfWicked Described AsSinning RepeatedlyFoolspoop