Thematic Bible


Thematic Bible







And now, dear children, continue in union with Him; so that, if He re-appears, we may have perfect confidence, and may not shrink away in shame from His presence at His Coming. Verse ConceptsAbiding In ChristLast ThingsOptimismReadinessNot AshamedFellowship With ChristChrist AppearingUs In GodBemaEternal PerspectiveBoldness

Our love will be manifested in all its perfection by our having complete confidence on the day of the Judgement; because just what He is, we also are in the world. Verse ConceptsFutureBoldness, Comes FromLast JudgmentBraveryAgape LoveThe Day Of JudgementGod Encouragingholy BoldnessConfidenceGod's Love For UsThe WorldGods LoveBoldnessBeing LovedJudgement DayJudgementChristians Are Called Children









For judges and magistrates are to be feared not by right-doers but by wrong-doers. You desire--do you not? --to have no reason to fear your ruler. Well, do the thing that is right, and then he will commend you. Verse ConceptsCommendationRulersSecurityTaxationMagistratesFear Is DueFearDoing The Right ThingBeing ScaredRespecting Authoritybehaviorterrorism




For if we wilfully persist in sin after having received the full knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains in reserve any other sacrifice for sins. There remains nothing but a certain awful expectation of judgement, and the fury of a fire which before long will devour the enemies of the truth.

King Herod heard of all this (for the name of Jesus had become widely known) Verse ConceptsPower, God's SavingSuperstitionTetrarchWho He Might BeWhy It Happened

Then when Judas, who had betrayed Him, saw that He was condemned, smitten with remorse he brought back the thirty shekels to the High Priests and Elders and said, "I have sinned, in betraying to death one who is innocent." "What does that matter to us?" they replied; it is your business." Flinging the shekels into the Sanctuary he left the place, and went and hanged himself.



They listened to Him, and then, beginning with the eldest, took their departure, one by one, till all were gone. And Jesus was left behind alone--and the woman in the centre of the court. Verse ConceptsAge, Glories OfConsciences, Description OfCommunicationOld Age, Attainment OfStandingAccusations, Source OfIsolated PersonsLeaving




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About that time Herod the Tetrarch heard of the fame of Jesus, and he said to his courtiers, "This is John the Baptist: he has come back to life--and that is why these miraculous Powers are working in him."

But when Herod heard of Him, he said, "The John, whom I beheaded, has come back to life." Verse ConceptsPunishment, Legal Aspects OfMartyrdom, Methods OfBeheading








Only let the lives you live be worthy of the Good News of the Christ, in order that, whether I come and see you or, being absent, only hear of you, I may know that you are standing fast in one spirit and with one mind, fighting shoulder to shoulder for the faith of the Good News. Never for a moment quail before your antagonists. Your fearlessness will be to them a sure token of impending destruction, but to you it will be a sure token of your salvation--a token coming from God.

















coming upon the soul of every man and woman who deliberately does wrong--upon the Jew first, and then upon the Gentile; Verse ConceptsFavouritismevil, warnings againstGod, Impartiality OfMiseryTo The Jew FirstThe Gospel To Jew And GentileGod TroublingGreat White Throne JudgmentFamily ProblemsPurgatory








coming upon the soul of every man and woman who deliberately does wrong--upon the Jew first, and then upon the Gentile; Verse ConceptsFavouritismevil, warnings againstGod, Impartiality OfMiseryTo The Jew FirstThe Gospel To Jew And GentileGod TroublingGreat White Throne JudgmentFamily ProblemsPurgatory