Thematic Bible


Thematic Bible



And some of them were persuaded, and joined Paul and Silas; as did a large number of the God-fearing Greeks and not a few of the leading women. Verse ConceptsDevout MenGreeksReverence, And ObedienceConverts To ChristianityProselytesJoined To The ChurchThose Who Believed In Christ

Now this I affirm and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds, they are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to the hardness of their heart; and they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality, greedy for the practice of every kind of impurity.

Therefore do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the Gentiles seek after all these things; and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.


No, but I say that the things pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be partners with demons. Verse ConceptsAstrologyFalse ReligionPagansNations DescribedSacrificesDemonsSacrificeHalloweenpartnershipstatuesDemonic Influence


And when you pray, do not use empty repetitions as the Gentiles do. For they think that they will be heard for their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.

In past generations he allowed all the nations to go their own ways; Verse ConceptsGod's WaysLife, Of FaithGod Acting Of OldLeaving People AloneThe Pastpast

Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw that the city was full of idols. So he was reasoning in the synagogue with the Jews and the God-fearing Greeks, and in the market place every day with those who happened to be there.

So Paul stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: "Men of Athens, I see that in every way you are very religious. For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, 'TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.'What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you. The God who made the world and everything in it, since he is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by hands; read more.
nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all men life and breath and everything. And he made from one man every nation of men to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation, that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.

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For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and wickedness of men who by their wickedness suppress the truth, for what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For since the creation of the world his invisible nature, even his eternal power and deity, has been clearly seen, being understood by the things that have been made. So they are without excuse; read more.
for although they knew God they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural. And the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in their own persons the due penalty for their error. And since they did not see fit to retain the knowledge of God, God gave them over to a base mind, to do what ought not to be done. They were filled with all manner of wickedness, evil, covetousness, depravity. Full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Though they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.

Therefore you have no excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge another; for in whatever point you pass judgment on him you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, are doing the very same things. We know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who do such things. Do you think, O man, that when you judge those who do such things and yet do the same yourself, you will escape the judgment of God? read more.
Or do you presume upon the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience? Do you not know that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? But by your hardness and your impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed. For he "will render to each one according to his works": to those who by patience in doing good seek for glory, honor, and immortality, he will give eternal life; but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey wickedness, there will be wrath and fury. There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek, but glory, honor, and peace for everyone who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek. For God shows no partiality. All who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law. For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous in the sight of God, but the doers of the law who will be justified. When Gentiles, who have not the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts accusing or else excusing them

You know that when you were pagans, you were led astray to mute idols, however you may have been moved. Verse ConceptsDumbnessMutenessPagansPolytheismCarrying IdolsDumbdiscriminationstatuesHinduism

"We ourselves, who are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners, Verse ConceptsSinnersWhat Foreigners Are LikeJews



For you have spent enough time in the past doing what the Gentiles like to do, living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and lawless idolatry. In all this, they are surprised that you do not run with them into the same flood of dissipation, and they abuse you;



but glory, honor, and peace for everyone who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek. Verse ConceptsFavouritismTo The Jew FirstDoing GoodGod Bestowing GloryThe Gospel To Jew And Gentile

The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirsheirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, in order that we may also be glorified with him.




But one who looks intently into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but a doer that acts, this man will be blessed in what he does. 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


If any man's work which he has built on it survives, he will receive a reward. Verse ConceptsWagesReward For Worksassertiveness

but glory, honor, and peace for everyone who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek. Verse ConceptsFavouritismTo The Jew FirstDoing GoodGod Bestowing GloryThe Gospel To Jew And Gentile




But one who looks intently into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but a doer that acts, this man will be blessed in what he does. 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


If any man's work which he has built on it survives, he will receive a reward. Verse ConceptsWagesReward For Worksassertiveness

but glory, honor, and peace for everyone who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek. Verse ConceptsFavouritismTo The Jew FirstDoing GoodGod Bestowing GloryThe Gospel To Jew And Gentile

but glory, honor, and peace for everyone who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek. Verse ConceptsFavouritismTo The Jew FirstDoing GoodGod Bestowing GloryThe Gospel To Jew And Gentile

Now he who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his own reward according to his own labor. Verse ConceptsHeavenly RewardsReward, DivineUnified PeopleRepaid For DeedsReward For WorksJudgment According To WorksWorking TogetherSuccess And Hard Work


The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things. Verse ConceptsBad PeopleSin, Nature OfConversationSpeaking, Wisdom InRenewed HeartFruits Of RighteousnessTreasuriesLike Good PeopleA Good Man

"For no good tree bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit. For each tree is known by its own fruit. For men do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they pick grapes from a bramble bush. The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good, and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.


For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself, and has given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man. Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming when all who are in the graves will hear his voice read more.
and come forth those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment.


Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does evil has not seen God. Verse ConceptsImitating OthersOther People Of GodPeople Possibly Doing EvilImitatingBeing PositiveEthicsMoralityGod Turning Bad Things Into Goodbehaviorfollowing

but glory, honor, and peace for everyone who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek. Verse ConceptsFavouritismTo The Jew FirstDoing GoodGod Bestowing GloryThe Gospel To Jew And Gentile



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Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by birth. And she begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter. Verse Conceptsdemons, Kinds ofBeggarsGreeksLove, And The WorldJesus Casting Out Demons

The Jews said to one another, "Where does this man intend to go that we shall not find him? Does he intend to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks? Verse Conceptsdispersion, theGreeksJudaismNot FindingChrist TeachingWhere To?

What then? Are we Jews any better off? Certainly not; for we have already charged that all men, both Jews and Greeks, are under the power of sin. Verse ConceptsForgiveness, DivineAdvantagesFar Be It!The Gospel To Jew And GentileAll Have Sinned

but glory, honor, and peace for everyone who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek. Verse ConceptsFavouritismTo The Jew FirstDoing GoodGod Bestowing GloryThe Gospel To Jew And Gentile





but glory, honor, and peace for everyone who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek. Verse ConceptsFavouritismTo The Jew FirstDoing GoodGod Bestowing GloryThe Gospel To Jew And Gentile



You are already filled! You have already become rich! You have become kings without us! And indeed, I wish that you had become kings so that we also might reign with you. For, I think that God has exhibited us apostles last of all, like men condemned to death; because we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men. We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are distinguished, but we are without honor.



but glory, honor, and peace for everyone who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek. Verse ConceptsFavouritismTo The Jew FirstDoing GoodGod Bestowing GloryThe Gospel To Jew And Gentile








But one who looks intently into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but a doer that acts, this man will be blessed in what he does. 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


If any man's work which he has built on it survives, he will receive a reward. Verse ConceptsWagesReward For Worksassertiveness

but glory, honor, and peace for everyone who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek. Verse ConceptsFavouritismTo The Jew FirstDoing GoodGod Bestowing GloryThe Gospel To Jew And Gentile

but glory, honor, and peace for everyone who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek. Verse ConceptsFavouritismTo The Jew FirstDoing GoodGod Bestowing GloryThe Gospel To Jew And Gentile

Now he who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his own reward according to his own labor. Verse ConceptsHeavenly RewardsReward, DivineUnified PeopleRepaid For DeedsReward For WorksJudgment According To WorksWorking TogetherSuccess And Hard Work




but glory, honor, and peace for everyone who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek. Verse ConceptsFavouritismTo The Jew FirstDoing GoodGod Bestowing GloryThe Gospel To Jew And Gentile





but glory, honor, and peace for everyone who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek. Verse ConceptsFavouritismTo The Jew FirstDoing GoodGod Bestowing GloryThe Gospel To Jew And Gentile

Now he who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his own reward according to his own labor. Verse ConceptsHeavenly RewardsReward, DivineUnified PeopleRepaid For DeedsReward For WorksJudgment According To WorksWorking TogetherSuccess And Hard Work




But one who looks intently into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but a doer that acts, this man will be blessed in what he does. 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


If any man's work which he has built on it survives, he will receive a reward. Verse ConceptsWagesReward For Worksassertiveness

but glory, honor, and peace for everyone who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek. Verse ConceptsFavouritismTo The Jew FirstDoing GoodGod Bestowing GloryThe Gospel To Jew And Gentile