Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Affections » False teachers seek to captivate
For do I now obey man, or God? or do I seek to please men? For if I yet pleased men, I could not have been a servant of Christ.
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They are zealous for you, but not well, but they wish to exclude you that you may be zealous for them.
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Of these are those who go into the houses and take captive foolish women loaded with sins, and led by various desires,
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and with covetousness they will make a gain of you with feigned words, whose judgment a long time lingers not, and their destruction slumbers not.
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For speaking extravagant words of vanity, they entice with carnal desires of lewdness those scarcely escaped from them, those living in error,
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But I have a few things against you; you have there those who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to put an occasion of sin before the children of Israel, both to eat things offered to idols and to commit fornication.
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But I have against you that you allow your wife Jezebel, who says she is a prophetess and teaches and deceives my servants to commit fornication and eat things offered to idols.
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Backsliders » Instances of » Churches of asia
But I have against you that you allow your wife Jezebel, who says she is a prophetess and teaches and deceives my servants to commit fornication and eat things offered to idols.
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But I have against you that you have left your first love.
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for some have already turned back after Satan.
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But I have a few things against you; you have there those who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to put an occasion of sin before the children of Israel, both to eat things offered to idols and to commit fornication. So in like manner you have also those who hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans.
Be watchful, confirm the rest who are about to die. For I have not found your works perfect before my God. Remember therefore how you have received and heard, and watch, and change your minds. If therefore you do not watch, I will come as a thief, and you shall not know at what hour I will come upon you.
I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot. Because therefore you are warm, and neither hot nor cold, I am about to spew you out of my mouth. For you say, I am rich and have become rich and have need of nothing, and know not that you are miserable, and pitiable, and poor, and blind, and naked. read more.
I advise you to buy of me gold purified in the fire that you may be rich, and white robes that you may put on, and the shame of your nakedness not appear, and an eye-salve to anoint your eyes that you may see.
I advise you to buy of me gold purified in the fire that you may be rich, and white robes that you may put on, and the shame of your nakedness not appear, and an eye-salve to anoint your eyes that you may see.
balaam » Counsel of, an occasion of israel's corruption with the midianites
But I have a few things against you; you have there those who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to put an occasion of sin before the children of Israel, both to eat things offered to idols and to commit fornication. So in like manner you have also those who hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans.
journey of israel through the Desert » Return to the plains of moab » Israel seduced to idolatry, &c by advice of balaam
But I have a few things against you; you have there those who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to put an occasion of sin before the children of Israel, both to eat things offered to idols and to commit fornication.
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false Doctrines » Hateful to God
But I have a few things against you; you have there those who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to put an occasion of sin before the children of Israel, both to eat things offered to idols and to commit fornication. So in like manner you have also those who hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans.
Lukewarmness » Instances of » A congregation at » Pergamos
But I have a few things against you; you have there those who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to put an occasion of sin before the children of Israel, both to eat things offered to idols and to commit fornication. So in like manner you have also those who hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans. Change your minds therefore; otherwise I will come to you quickly, and fight with them with the sword of my mouth.
Offence » Exemplified
But I have a few things against you; you have there those who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to put an occasion of sin before the children of Israel, both to eat things offered to idols and to commit fornication.
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Pergamos » One of the "seven congregations" in
saying, What you see write in a book, and send to the seven churches, to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamus and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.
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And to the angel of the church in Pergamus write, These things says he that has the two-edged sharp sword, I know your works and where you live; where Satan's throne is; and you hold my name, and did not deny my faith in the days in which Antipas my faithful martyr was killed among you, where Satan dwells. But I have a few things against you; you have there those who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to put an occasion of sin before the children of Israel, both to eat things offered to idols and to commit fornication. read more.
So in like manner you have also those who hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans. Change your minds therefore; otherwise I will come to you quickly, and fight with them with the sword of my mouth. Let him that has an ear hear what the Spirit says to the churches; To him that conquers will I give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white token, and on the token a new name engraved, which no one knows but he that receives it.
So in like manner you have also those who hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans. Change your minds therefore; otherwise I will come to you quickly, and fight with them with the sword of my mouth. Let him that has an ear hear what the Spirit says to the churches; To him that conquers will I give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white token, and on the token a new name engraved, which no one knows but he that receives it.
Stumbling » Figurative » Stumbling-block
But I have a few things against you; you have there those who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to put an occasion of sin before the children of Israel, both to eat things offered to idols and to commit fornication.
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Let us not therefore judge one another, but judge this rather, not to place a stumbling-block or an offense before a brother.
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we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews indeed an offense, and to the gentiles foolishness,
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Woe to you, lawyers! for you have taken away the key of knowledge; you do not enter in yourselves, and you forbid those entering.
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And David says, Let their table become a trap and a snare and an offense and a stumbling block to them;
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But beware lest your liberty should become an offense to the weak. For if any one sees you who have knowledge reclining in an idol's temple, will not the conscience of him that is weak be emboldened to eat things offered to idols? And will not the weak brother for whom Christ died perish by your knowledge? read more.
But when you thus sin against the brothers, and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. Wherefore, if food offends my brother, I will eat no meat forever, that I may not offend my brother.
But when you thus sin against the brothers, and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. Wherefore, if food offends my brother, I will eat no meat forever, that I may not offend my brother.
teaching » Those that teach others to break the commandments
Whoever therefore shall break one of the least of these commandments, and teach men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever shall do and teach, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
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And to the angel of the church in Pergamus write, These things says he that has the two-edged sharp sword, I know your works and where you live; where Satan's throne is; and you hold my name, and did not deny my faith in the days in which Antipas my faithful martyr was killed among you, where Satan dwells. But I have a few things against you; you have there those who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to put an occasion of sin before the children of Israel, both to eat things offered to idols and to commit fornication. read more.
So in like manner you have also those who hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans. Change your minds therefore; otherwise I will come to you quickly, and fight with them with the sword of my mouth.
So in like manner you have also those who hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans. Change your minds therefore; otherwise I will come to you quickly, and fight with them with the sword of my mouth.
War/weapons » The word of God being a sword
And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God,
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For the word of God is living, and effective, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and reaching even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrows, and distinguishes thoughts and intentions of mind;
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And I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and he that sat on it is called faithful and true, and in righteousness he judges and makes war. And his eyes are a flame of fire, and on his head are many diadems; he has a name written that no man knows except himself, and he is clothed in a mantle dipped in blood, and his name is called The Word of God. read more.
And the armies of heaven follow him upon white horses, clothed with fine white clean linen. And out of his mouth proceeds a sharp sword, that with it he may smite the nations; and he shall rule them with a rod of iron, and he shall tread the wine-press of the indignant wrath of God Almighty. And he has on the mantle and on the thigh his name written, King of kings and Lord of lords. And I saw an angel standing on the sun, and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in mid-heaven, Come, assemble yourselves to the great supper of God, that you may eat the flesh of kings and the flesh of chiliarchs and the flesh of mighty [men] and the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them, and the flesh of all, both free-men and servants and both small and great. And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies assembled together to make war with him that sat on the horse and with his army. And the beast was taken and with him the false prophet who performed miracles before him, with which he deceived those who received the mark of the beast and those who worship his image; and the two were cast alive into the lake of fire burning with sulphur. And the rest were killed with the sword of him that sits on the horse, which proceeded out of his mouth, and all the birds were filled with their flesh.
And the armies of heaven follow him upon white horses, clothed with fine white clean linen. And out of his mouth proceeds a sharp sword, that with it he may smite the nations; and he shall rule them with a rod of iron, and he shall tread the wine-press of the indignant wrath of God Almighty. And he has on the mantle and on the thigh his name written, King of kings and Lord of lords. And I saw an angel standing on the sun, and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in mid-heaven, Come, assemble yourselves to the great supper of God, that you may eat the flesh of kings and the flesh of chiliarchs and the flesh of mighty [men] and the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them, and the flesh of all, both free-men and servants and both small and great. And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies assembled together to make war with him that sat on the horse and with his army. And the beast was taken and with him the false prophet who performed miracles before him, with which he deceived those who received the mark of the beast and those who worship his image; and the two were cast alive into the lake of fire burning with sulphur. And the rest were killed with the sword of him that sits on the horse, which proceeded out of his mouth, and all the birds were filled with their flesh.
And to the angel of the church in Pergamus write, These things says he that has the two-edged sharp sword, I know your works and where you live; where Satan's throne is; and you hold my name, and did not deny my faith in the days in which Antipas my faithful martyr was killed among you, where Satan dwells. But I have a few things against you; you have there those who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to put an occasion of sin before the children of Israel, both to eat things offered to idols and to commit fornication. read more.
So in like manner you have also those who hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans. Change your minds therefore; otherwise I will come to you quickly, and fight with them with the sword of my mouth.
So in like manner you have also those who hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans. Change your minds therefore; otherwise I will come to you quickly, and fight with them with the sword of my mouth.
and his head and hairs were white as white wool, as snow, and his eyes like a flame of fire, and his feet like fine brass as if they were burned in a furnace, and his voice like the sound of many waters, and he had in his right hand seven stars, and out of his mouth proceeded a sharp two-edged sword, and his face shone like the sun in his strength. read more.
And when I saw him I fell at his feet as dead; and he put his right hand on me, saying, Fear not; I am the first and the last
And when I saw him I fell at his feet as dead; and he put his right hand on me, saying, Fear not; I am the first and the last