Thematic Bible


Thematic Bible




Then there were those who were sown on fertile soil. These represent people who heard 'the word,' accepted it and yielded a crop of thirty, sixty and even a hundred times [as much as was planted]." Verse ConceptsFruit, SpiritualFaith, Nature OfAcceptance, Of The GospelThirtySixtiesOne HundredThe Source Of FruitFertile LandLand ProducingHearing God's WordHundredfold Return








Do not continue to be swept off your course by all kinds of strange teachings. For it is good for your hearts to be strengthened by God's unearned favor [upon you] and not by [keeping regulations about] foods, which do not benefit those who observe them. Verse ConceptsCounterfeitsFalse TeachingsFalse Doctrine, Dangers OfGrace, And Christian LifeHeresiesReceptivenessStrength, SpiritualSyncretismCultsFalse DoctrinesInstabilityGod Strengthening PeopleMisteachingThe Grace Given To MenBeing Devoted to GodRewards Of RitualRelationship TroublesEmotionsBuilding Relationshipsdoctrine

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But the person who looks closely into the perfect law that brings freedom, and continues to do so, is not a listener who forgets [what he hears], but someone who does the work [it requires]. This person will be blessed for doing so. Verse ConceptsBeing A BlessingBeing Blesseddiscipleship, benefits ofPerfection, DivineReward, DivineSanctification, Means And ResultsScripture, Sufficiency OfHearing God's WordForgetting ThingsGod Will BlessThe Law Of ChristOne's DeedsChristian LibertyFreedom

And those people [represented by seed falling] in the fertile soil are those who possess a good and honest heart when they hear the word [of God]. They hold on to it and patiently [continue until they] produce a crop. Verse ConceptsFruit, SpiritualFaith, Nature OfEndurance, Results OfdiligenceDiligence, Examples OfPatience, In Christian LivingPatienceAcceptance, Of The GospelRenewed HeartPatience ExercisedThe Source Of FruitFertile LandNature Of The HeartHearing God's WordDoing GoodEndurancePlanting SeedsSeeds











Then there were those who were sown on fertile soil. These represent people who heard 'the word,' accepted it and yielded a crop of thirty, sixty and even a hundred times [as much as was planted]." Verse ConceptsFruit, SpiritualFaith, Nature OfAcceptance, Of The GospelThirtySixtiesOne HundredThe Source Of FruitFertile LandLand ProducingHearing God's WordHundredfold Return









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Do not continue to be swept off your course by all kinds of strange teachings. For it is good for your hearts to be strengthened by God's unearned favor [upon you] and not by [keeping regulations about] foods, which do not benefit those who observe them. Verse ConceptsCounterfeitsFalse TeachingsFalse Doctrine, Dangers OfGrace, And Christian LifeHeresiesReceptivenessStrength, SpiritualSyncretismCultsFalse DoctrinesInstabilityGod Strengthening PeopleMisteachingThe Grace Given To MenBeing Devoted to GodRewards Of RitualRelationship TroublesEmotionsBuilding Relationshipsdoctrine

The person who is doing wrong should continue to do wrong [if he wants to]; and the person who is [morally] filthy should continue to be [morally] filthy [if he wants to]; and the person who does what is right should continue to do right [if he wants to]; and the person who is living a holy life should continue to live holy [if he wants to]." Verse ConceptsHoliness Of The SaintsReprobatesUnceasingContinual SinContinual GoodPeople Being UncleanContinuing In SinDishonestyDoing The Right Thing

For if anyone is [only] a listener to the word and does not practice it, he is like a person who sees his natural face in a mirror, and [then after] he sees himself, [he] goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. But the person who looks closely into the perfect law that brings freedom, and continues to do so, is not a listener who forgets [what he hears], but someone who does the work [it requires]. This person will be blessed for doing so.

But the person who holds out [i.e., remains faithful to God] until the end [i.e., of this time of severe persecution] will be saved [from destruction]. Verse ConceptsGoalsendProgressTo The EndEnduringLoving Your EnemiesThe End Of The WorldEnduranceOvercoming Hard TimesStaying Strong During Hard TimesWitnessingPersistencenegativityperserverancepersevering