Thematic Bible: Seven excuses offered for the neglect of duty
Thematic Bible
Excuses » Seven excuses offered for the neglect of duty » Personal incompetency
Then Moses said, “What if they will not believe me or listen to what I say? For they may say, ‘The Lord has not appeared to you.’”
Then Moses said to the Lord, “Please, Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither recently nor in time past, nor since You have spoken to Your servant; for I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.”
But Moses said to God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the sons of Israel out of Egypt?”
Excuses » Seven excuses offered for the neglect of duty » For sin, not accepted
Therefore you have no excuse, everyone of you who passes judgment, for in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things.
For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.
Verse Concepts
Glory, Revelation OfCreation Showing God's NatureExcusesCommunicationeternity, nature ofThe Witness Of CreationGod, InvisibleGod, Power OfGod, The CreatorGod, The EternalKnowing God, Nature OfKnowledge, Of GodResponsibility, To GodStrength, DivineUnderstandingThe Call Of GodPower Of God, DescribedGod's Glory In NatureAnimismInvisible Things
From The BeginningLike People By NatureFound GuiltyGod Showed His PowerNature Of GodCreation Causing WorshipScienceAtheism, Description OfGeneral RevelationDivineDivinityCreationGodheadInformation AgeBeauty Of NatureKnowing GodThe Beauty Of NatureMoralityDenying God And His PowerThe Complexity Of Nature
Excuses » Seven excuses offered for the neglect of duty » Pressure of business
"But they all alike began to make excuses. The first one said to him, 'I have bought a piece of land and I need to go out and look at it; please consider me excused.' "Another one said, 'I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to try them out; please consider me excused.'
Excuses » Seven excuses offered for the neglect of duty » The hardness of the master
"And the one also who had received the one talent came up and said, 'Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow and gathering where you scattered no seed. 'And I was afraid, and went away and hid your talent in the ground. See, you have what is yours.'
Excuses » Seven excuses offered for the neglect of duty » No need discovered
"Then they themselves also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see You hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not take care of You?' "Then He will answer them, 'Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.'
Excuses » Seven excuses offered for the neglect of duty » Difficulties of the undertaking
I will be killed in the streets!”
Excuses » Seven excuses offered for the neglect of duty » Personal weakness (jeremiah)
Then I said, "Alas, Lord GOD! Behold, I do not know how to speak, Because I am a youth." But the LORD said to me, "Do not say, 'I am a youth,' Because everywhere I send you, you shall go, And all that I command you, you shall speak.