Thematic Bible: Roots of


Thematic Bible



For see, the day is coming, it is burning like an oven; all the men of pride and all who do evil will be dry stems of grass: and in the day which is coming they will be burned up, says the Lord of armies, till they have not a root or a branch. Verse ConceptsFurnacesFaithlessness, As Disobedienceevil, victory overevil, warnings againstPride, Results OfPunishment, By GodRootsAbaseWicked Described AsAbasement Of The ProudThe ProudEvildoersLight As ChaffBurning PeopleResidueThe Proud Will Be Abased

And even now the axe is put to the root of the trees; every tree then which does not give good fruit is cut down, and put into the fire. Verse ConceptsBearing Bad FruitFruitAxesRootsSin, God's Judgment OnToolsFelling TreesBurning PlantsBad Items

For this cause, as the waste of the grain is burned up by tongues of fire, and as the dry grass goes down before the flame, so their root will be like the dry stems of grain, and their flower will go up in dust: because they have gone against the law of the Lord of armies, and have given no honour to the word of the Holy One of Israel. Verse ConceptsRejecting God's WordDecayGrassRejection Of GodStrawRejection Of God's WordWord Of GodRootsPeople RottingBurning Plants

These men are unseen rocks at your love-feasts, when they take part in them with you, keepers of sheep who without fear take the food of the sheep; clouds without water rushing before the wind, wasted trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots, Verse ConceptsClouds, Figurative UseRootsAgape LovePlucking OutThe Second DeathLove Exists Between PeopleLove Feast

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain