Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Agriculture or husbandry » Requires » Diligence
In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening don't withhold your hand; for you don't know which will prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both will be equally good.
Know well the state of your flocks, and pay attention to your herds: for riches are not forever, nor does even the crown endure to all generations. The hay is removed, and the new growth appears, the grasses of the hills are gathered in. read more.
The lambs are for your clothing, and the goats are the price of a field. There will be plenty of goats' milk for your food, for your family's food, and for the nourishment of your servant girls.
The lambs are for your clothing, and the goats are the price of a field. There will be plenty of goats' milk for your food, for your family's food, and for the nourishment of your servant girls.
Diligence » Being diligent
Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without blemish and blameless in his sight.
Know well the state of your flocks, and pay attention to your herds: for riches are not forever, nor does even the crown endure to all generations.
We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end, that you won't be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherited the promises.
Endurance » What does not endure
For, "All flesh is like grass, and all of man's glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;
Know well the state of your flocks, and pay attention to your herds: for riches are not forever, nor does even the crown endure to all generations.
"Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the rushes grow without water? While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed. So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man shall perish, read more.
Whose confidence shall break apart, Whose trust is a spider's web. He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand. He shall cling to it, but it shall not endure.
Whose confidence shall break apart, Whose trust is a spider's web. He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand. He shall cling to it, but it shall not endure.
As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes. For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. Its place remembers it no more.
The voice of one saying, "Cry!" One said, "What shall I cry?" "All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field. The grass withers, the flower fades, because Yahweh's breath blows on it. Surely the people are like grass. The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God stands forever."
Whereas you don't know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.
Riches » Described as » Temporary
for riches are not forever, nor does even the crown endure to all generations.
earthly Riches » The perils of » Fleeting and uncertain
For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.
As the partridge that sits on [eggs] which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.
For we brought nothing into the world, and we certainly can't carry anything out.
The increase of his house shall depart. They shall rush away in the day of his wrath.
For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.
I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.
for riches are not forever, nor does even the crown endure to all generations.
Wealth » Riches disappearing
Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.
Know well the state of your flocks, and pay attention to your herds: for riches are not forever, nor does even the crown endure to all generations.