Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Evil » Social in the church » Generation
And Peter solemnly testified and continued to admonish and urge them with many more words, saying, “Be saved from this crooked and unjust generation!”
Verse Concepts
“They (Israel) have acted corruptly toward Him.
They are not His children, because of their [moral] defect;
But are a perverse and crooked generation.
Jesus answered, “You unbelieving and perverted generation! How long shall I be with you and put up with you? Bring your son here [to Me].”
Verse Concepts
There is a generation (class of people) that is pure in its own eyes,
Yet is not washed from its filthiness.
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the [divine] wrath and judgment to come?
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But He replied and said to them, “An evil and adulterous generation [that is morally unfaithful to God] craves and demands a [miraculous] sign; but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah;
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Self-delusion » Exhibited in thinking that » We are pure
There is a generation (class of people) that is pure in its own eyes,
Yet is not washed from its filthiness.
Self-righteousness » Man is prone to
There is a generation (class of people) that is pure in its own eyes,
Yet is not washed from its filthiness.
Many a man proclaims his own loyalty and goodness,
But who can find a faithful and trustworthy man?
Self-righteousness » They who are given to » Are pure in their own eyes
There is a generation (class of people) that is pure in its own eyes,
Yet is not washed from its filthiness.
Sin » Described as » Defiling
For your hands are defiled with blood
And your fingers with wickedness [with sin, with injustice, with wrongdoing];
Your lips have spoken lies,
Your tongue mutters wickedness.
There is a generation (class of people) that is pure in its own eyes,
Yet is not washed from its filthiness.
Washing » Figurative » Of regeneration
“In that day a fountain shall be opened for the house of David and for the people of Jerusalem for [cleansing from] sin and impurity.
Verse Concepts
He saved us, not because of any works of righteousness that we have done, but because of His own compassion and mercy, by the cleansing of the new birth (spiritual transformation, regeneration) and renewing by the Holy Spirit,
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so that He might sanctify the church, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word [of God],
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And such were some of you [before you believed]. But you were washed [by the atoning sacrifice of Christ], you were sanctified [set apart for God, and made holy], you were justified [declared free of guilt] in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the [Holy] Spirit of our God [the source of the believer’s new life and changed behavior].
Verse Concepts
Purify me with
Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
“Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean;
Get your evil deeds out of My sight.
Stop doing evil,
When the Lord has washed away the [moral] filth of the daughters of Zion and has cleansed the bloodstains of Jerusalem from her midst, by the spirit of judgment and by the spirit of burning,
Verse Concepts
There is a generation (class of people) that is pure in its own eyes,
Yet is not washed from its filthiness.