Thematic Bible: Sins


Thematic Bible








But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more. Verse ConceptsGiving, Of TalentsResponsibility, To GodSin, Nature OfStewardshipTrustworthinessWork, Divine And HumanIgnorance Of EvilGod's NeedsFaithful In MuchThose To Whom God GivesAccountabilityResponsibility


Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a soul shall sin through ignorance against any of the commandments of the LORD concerning things which ought not to be done, and shall act against any one of them: Verse ConceptsSin OfferingUnintentionalIgnorance of God

And if a soul sins, and commits any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the LORD; though he knew it not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity. Verse ConceptsGuilt, Human Aspects OfGuilt OfferingResponsibility, To GodSin BearerBearingIgnorance Of EvilIgnorance of God

And now, brethren, I know that through ignorance you did it, as did also your rulers. Verse ConceptsSin, Nature OfIgnorance Of EvilKnowing FactsIgnorance of Godignorance


And that servant, who knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. Verse ConceptsAccording To His WillSin, Nature OfSins Of OmissionKnowing God's WillKnowing FactsStrictnessDoing The Right ThingservanthoodNot Serving God


Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Since you did it not to one of the least of these, you did it not to me. Verse ConceptsGenerosity, HumanSin, Nature OfSins Of OmissionChrist Telling The TruthChrist's True FamilyOther Unimportant PeopleSurrender


For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: the stalk has no bud: it shall yield no meal: if so be it does yield, the aliens shall swallow it up. Verse Conceptsevil, warnings againstDebaucherySowing And ReapingUnfruitfulnessWeather, As God's JudgmentWhirlwindsWindFruits Of SinReapingNot Reaping What You SowSuffering From ForeignersHurricanesReaping What You Sowsowing

They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your harvest because of the fierce anger of the LORD. Verse ConceptsHarvestProfitsSin, Effects OfSowing And ReapingThornsWheatUnprofitable SinsNot Reaping What You SowToiling In Vain

For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come. Verse ConceptsdaughtersHarvestSicklesSowing And ReapingThreshing Floor

Also, O Judah, he has appointed a harvest for you, when I return the captives of my people. Verse ConceptsHarvestRestoring NationsSowing And Reaping

And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in your sickle, and reap: for the time has come for you to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe. Verse ConceptsAngels as agents of judgmentMaturity, PhysicalThe Day Of JudgementAngels Doing God's WorkThe Temple In HeavenAngels Activities In The End Times

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also reap. For he that sows to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that sows to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

Let the nations be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the nations round about. Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the vats overflow; for their wickedness is great.

In the day shall you make your plant to grow, and in the morning shall you make your seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap of ruins in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow. Verse ConceptsReapingPlanting Seeds

And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his fathers had done: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin. Verse ConceptsConversion, nature of

And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not all his days from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.

And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.

And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.

And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they played the harlot with other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; but they did not so. Verse Conceptsethics, basis ofGod's WaysProstitutionRevelation, Responses ToDifferent Gods

And Gideon made an ephod of it, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel went there and played the harlot with it: which thing became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house. Verse ConceptsephodsProstitutionTrapEvil Trapping

And they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and played the harlot with the gods of the people of the land, whom God destroyed before them. Verse ConceptsProstitutionUnfaithfulness, To God

Thus were they defiled with their own works, and played the harlot with their own deeds. Verse ConceptsActionsFalse ReligionSpiritual HarlotryDebaucheryProstitutionSin, Effects Of

And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations where they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their adulterous heart, which has departed from me, and with their eyes, which play the harlot after their idols: and they shall loathe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations. Verse ConceptsConversion, God's demands forApostasy in OTRejection Of God, Results OfHeart, Of Unregenerate PeopleHedonismForsaking GodEscaping EvilIdol WorshipHating Individualsheartbroken

Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD; Are you defiled after the manner of your fathers? and commit you harlotry after their abominations? Verse ConceptsAbominations, Idolatry IsImitating Wicked PeoplePeople Polluting ThemselvesThe Great Prostitute

Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Because you have forgotten me, and cast me behind your back, therefore bear you also your lewdness and your harlotries. Verse ConceptsThrowing AwaySpiritual Harlotryconsequences

My people ask counsel of their idols of wood, and their staff advises unto them: for the spirit of harlotry has caused them to err, and they have played the harlot against their God. Verse ConceptsSpiritual HarlotryIngratitudeSpirit, Emotional Aspects OfWoodHarlotsCausing People To TurnIdol Worshipwhores

They will not change their deeds to turn unto their God: for the spirit of harlotry is in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD. Verse ConceptsForgetting GodSpiritual HarlotryIngratitudeProstitutionSalvation, Necessity And Basis OfSpirit, Emotional Aspects OfDecadenceNot Returning To God

Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for you have played the harlot against your God, you have loved for hire upon every threshing floor. Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, To GodSpiritual HarlotryIngratitudeMarriage, Between God And His PeopleServants, Working Conditions OfUnfaithfulness, To GodLack Of RejoicingWages Of A ProstituteThe Great Prostitute

Prepare slaughter for his children because of the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities. Verse ConceptsFathers, Sin Of TheFruits Of SinParents SinSins Of The FathersMassacresDadsGuilt

You shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; Verse ConceptsBad ParentsGenerationsGod's attitude towards peopleGod, Zeal OfHatredReward, DivineSin, God's Judgment OnGod, JealousIdolatry Consists OfParents SinForbidden WorshipSins Of The FathersBowing To False GodsAvoiding IdolatryHating GodWorshipping Material Thingsnegativity

Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation. Verse ConceptsIniquity, God's Attitude TowardPunishment, Nature OfUnforgivenessParents SinSins Of The FathersA Forgiving God

The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation. Verse ConceptsFathers, Sin Of TheAbundant MercyGenerationsChildren, responsibilities to parentsGod, Patience OfReliabilityRestraintUnforgivenessLongsuffering Of GodParents SinSins Of The FathersA Forgiving GodSpeed Of God's AngerLove And ForgivenessAnger And ForgivenessParents LoveParents Being Wrong

And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your harlotries, until your carcasses are consumed in the wilderness. Verse ConceptsMonotonyUnfaithfulness, To GodParents SinDying In The WildernessDeath As PunishmentThose Who Kept Stock

God lays up his iniquity for his children: he recompenses him, and he shall know it. Verse ConceptsFathers, Sin Of TheParents SinSins Of The FathersPunishment of the The Wicked

You show lovingkindness unto thousands, and recompense the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them: the Great, the Mighty God, the LORD of hosts, is his name, Verse ConceptsFathers, Sin Of TheChildren, responsibilities to parentsParents SinSins Of The FathersGod As A WarriorHis Name Is The LordMighty OneGod Showed His Lovingkindness

And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them. Verse ConceptsFathers, Sin Of TheOffspringParents SinPeople RottingSurvivors Threatened


And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city. Verse ConceptsSecrecySecret SinsConcealment, Of SinActing In Secret

Woe unto them that go the depths to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who sees us? and who knows us? Verse ConceptsConcealment, Of SinVeilsSecret SinsDarkness Of EvilNot Seeing PeopleUnseenHiding SinsWoe To The WickedDarknesshiding

Then said he unto me, Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his idols? for they say, The LORD sees us not; the LORD has forsaken the land. Verse ConceptsFalse ConfidenceShrinesSecret SinsConcealment, Of SinGod Not SeeingActing In SecretLooking And SeeingScofferselders

In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light. Verse ConceptsSecret Sinsthieves

For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret. Verse ConceptsNations DescribedSecret SinsActing In SecretCurbing SpeechShame Of Bad Conductspeakingdisobedience

You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your countenance. Verse ConceptsFaultsLight, SpiritualSecrecySin, Known To GodAcknowledge, SinSecret SinsGod Giving LightsecretsLight As A Symbol Of God






Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves: Verse ConceptsCondemned Heartsevil, origins ofdesiresHeart, Fallen And RedeemedSexual Sin, Nature OfSexualitySin, Causes OfImpurityGod Handing OverIdolatryThey Committed ImmoralitysexDishonoring God

And be not like your fathers, and like your brethren, who trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as you see. Verse ConceptsGod Of The FathersBeing A Good FatherParents Being Wrong

Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. Verse ConceptsEmpty Places


And she said, The Philistines be upon you, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he knew not that the LORD was departed from him. Verse ConceptsSelf ConfidenceWeakness, PhysicalGod Abandoning Individualsresilienceflexibilitypremonitions

And when Saul inquired of the LORD, the LORD answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets. Verse Conceptsenquiring of GodThe Urim And ThummimGod Not AnsweringProphecy AbolishedUrim And ThummimRevelation Through Prophetssaul

So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels. Verse ConceptsGod Hardening PeoplePassionimaginationfollowing


Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O you house of Israel, have you offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness? Verse ConceptsBody40 To 50 YearsIsrael In The WildernessBooks Of ProphecyWorshiping Together


For my name's sake will I defer my anger, and for my praise will I restrain it for you, that I cut you not off. Verse ConceptsGod, Patience OfRestraintPunishment, DelayedForbearanceDivine DelaysRestraints From Killing

Who formerly were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, by which a few, that is, eight souls were saved through water. Verse ConceptsCovenant, God's with NoahBaptism, significance ofBefore The FloodGod's attitude towards peopleGod, Patience OfNoahSeafaringPunishment, DelayedLongsuffering Of GodThe DelugeDivine DelaysEight PeopleGod WaitingFew Peopledisobedienceinvesting

See you how Ahab humbles himself before me? because he humbles himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days: but in his son's days will I bring the evil upon his house. Verse ConceptsHumilityPunishment, DelayedDivine DelaysGod Will Bring HarmHumbling OneselfHumble Yourselfhumbleness

Nevertheless in your days I will not do it for David your father's sake: but I will tear it out of the hand of your son. Verse ConceptsDivine DelaysFor The Sake Of God's Peoplegrandfathers

And the LORD was gracious unto them, and had compassion on them, and had respect unto them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither cast he them from his presence as yet. Verse ConceptsAcceptance, From GodGod Of The FathersGod Is GraciousDivine FavourDivine DelaysDriven From God's PresenceGod's Covenant With The Patriarchs

Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. Verse ConceptsSecurity, FalseDivine DelaysPunishmentPunishmentsPunishment of the The WickedExerciseconsequences

Then said he unto the vinedresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbers it the ground? And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and fertilize it:

And if it bears fruit, well: and if not, then after that you shall cut it down. Verse ConceptsDivine DelaysFelling TreesBearing FruitOlive Treescutting


The wicked man travails with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden for the oppressor. Verse ConceptsAfflictions Of The WickedMiseryPhysical PainPleasurableness


And Samuel said to Saul, Why have you disturbed me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am much distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God has departed from me, and answers me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called you, that you may make known unto me what I shall do. Verse ConceptsMiseryApostasy Of SaulGod Not AnsweringProphecy AbolishedTroubling Individualswitchesawakeningsaul

In the morning you shall say, Would God it were evening! and at evening you shall say, Would God it were morning! because of the fear of your heart by which you shall fear, and because of the sight of your eyes which you shall see. Verse ConceptsHuman EmotionDespondency, Causes OfHeart, HumanSleeplessnessMiseryUnrestIn The Morning

Good understanding gives favor: but the way of transgressors is hard. Verse ConceptsFruits Of SinMiseryPathways Of SinEvil WaysFavorSuccess And Hard Work


Wherever they went out, the hand of the LORD was against them for evil, as the LORD had said, and as the LORD had sworn unto them: and they were greatly distressed. Verse ConceptsdefeatMiseryGod OpposingGod Harmed Them






Because you trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because you hallowed me not in the midst of the children of Israel. Verse ConceptsGod, Zeal OfWilderness Of ZinDisloyalty

So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the LORD, even against the word of the LORD, which he kept not, and also for asking counsel of one that was a medium, to seek council; Verse ConceptsLast ThingsMediumsSin, God's Judgment OnSin, Nature OfUnfaithfulness, To GodWord Of GodOccultismPunishment Of the WickedNames And Titles For The ChristianNecromancypsychics

As righteousness leads to life: so he that pursues evil pursues it to his own death. Verse ConceptsLast ThingsSin, God's Judgment OnPursuingresilience


And when Moses saw that the people were naked; (for Aaron had let them be naked unto their shame among their enemies:) Verse ConceptsAmusementsdisgraceShameDegradationPeople Stripping PeopleShame Of Bad Conductvulnerability

My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face has covered me, Verse ConceptsdisgraceShameSin, Effects OfAll DayShame Has Come

And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God: for our iniquities have risen higher than our head, and our trespass has grown up unto the heavens. Verse ConceptsGuilty ConsciencesConfession, Examples OfGuilt, Human Aspects OfShameSin, Effects OfBlushingFound GuiltyShame Has Come



And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten. Verse ConceptsHumiliationShameNot ForgettingGod Requite Them!

There are the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Sidonians, who have gone down with the slain; with their terror they are ashamed of their might; and they lie uncircumcised with them that are slain by the sword, and bear their shame with them that go down to the pit. Verse ConceptsShameGoing Down To The PitDying With The UncircumcisedFearing Other PeopleShame Has Come

They that hate you shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked will come to nothing. Verse ConceptsShameTentsClothed With Bad Things


Unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of you; for you are a stiff-necked people: lest I consume you in the way. Verse ConceptsFoodStubbornness, Consequences OfTent Of MeetingObstinacy Against GodGod Might Kill His PeopleMilk And HoneyRich Food

Israel has sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and deceived also, and they have put it even among their own stuff. Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they were accursed: neither will I be with you any more, unless you destroy the accursed from among you.



They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD; but they shall not find him; he has withdrawn himself from them. Verse Conceptsethics, incentives towardsLonelinessSin, Effects OfReprobatesNot FindingGod Hiding






For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: the stalk has no bud: it shall yield no meal: if so be it does yield, the aliens shall swallow it up. Verse Conceptsevil, warnings againstDebaucherySowing And ReapingUnfruitfulnessWeather, As God's JudgmentWhirlwindsWindFruits Of SinReapingNot Reaping What You SowSuffering From ForeignersHurricanesReaping What You Sowsowing

They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your harvest because of the fierce anger of the LORD. Verse ConceptsHarvestProfitsSin, Effects OfSowing And ReapingThornsWheatUnprofitable SinsNot Reaping What You SowToiling In Vain

For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come. Verse ConceptsdaughtersHarvestSicklesSowing And ReapingThreshing Floor

Also, O Judah, he has appointed a harvest for you, when I return the captives of my people. Verse ConceptsHarvestRestoring NationsSowing And Reaping

Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and such like: of which I tell you beforehand, as I have also told you in time past, that they who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. Verse ConceptsAdulterersAlcoholWatchfulness, Of LeadersExclusionRevelryAlcohol ConsumptionWarning IndividualsThings LikeDo Not Get DrunkDrunkennessSexual ImmoralityBeing GayGay Marriagepracticealcoholismdrunkards

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, impurity, licentiousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, strife, jealousy, wrath, selfishness, divisions, heresies,

For if after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. Verse ConceptsCorruption, SolutiondefeatBeginningHell, As Incentive To ActionDeteriorationYielding To TemptationKnowing Christ PersonallyEvil TrappingEscaping EvilChrist Is LordWorseDefilementOvercomingNew Beginningscorruption

Then he goes, and takes with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation. Verse Conceptsevil, origins ofSevenEvil GenerationsSeven SpiritsDemons EnteringMore ThanWorseBackslidersDemonsCasting Out Demonshomecoming

And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God: for our iniquities have risen higher than our head, and our trespass has grown up unto the heavens. Verse ConceptsGuilty ConsciencesConfession, Examples OfGuilt, Human Aspects OfShameSin, Effects OfBlushingFound GuiltyShame Has Come

They have grown fat, they shine: yea, they pass over the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not defend. Verse ConceptsOpposition, To Sin And EvilOrphansFat PeopleNot Helping The Poorprospering

For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter: Verse ConceptsPoisondissatisfactionBitterness

And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in your sickle, and reap: for the time has come for you to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe. Verse ConceptsAngels as agents of judgmentMaturity, PhysicalThe Day Of JudgementAngels Doing God's WorkThe Temple In HeavenAngels Activities In The End Times

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also reap. For he that sows to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that sows to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.


For this people's heart has become gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them. Verse ConceptsDeafnessConversion, examples ofHardened HeartsEyes, Figurative UseEarsHardness Of HeartHeart, Fallen And RedeemedIndifferenceWilful IgnoranceInsensibilityDullnessSpiritual DeafnessNature Of The HeartTurning To GodRefusing To HearEvil EyesNot Seeing Spiritual ThingsBeing Without UnderstandingFeelingGod HealsUnhearing


Let the nations be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the nations round about. Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the vats overflow; for their wickedness is great.

In the day shall you make your plant to grow, and in the morning shall you make your seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap of ruins in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow. Verse ConceptsReapingPlanting Seeds

Even so every good tree brings forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree brings forth evil fruit. Verse ConceptsBearing Bad FruitSpiritualityFood DecayingA Mans CharacterA Mans ReputationFruit Of CharacterBeing PositivecorruptionMoral Decay

You have plowed wickedness, you have reaped iniquity; you have eaten the fruit of lies: because you did trust in your way, in the multitude of your mighty men. Verse ConceptsFaith, Nature OfFalse ConfidencePride, Examples OfFruits Of SinMetaphorical PloughingReapingTrusting Other PeopleGod's People SinningInjustice

Israel is an empty vine, he brings forth fruit unto himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he has increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images. Verse ConceptsPeace, Human Search ForVinesAltars, PaganSocial SelfishnessFertile LandObelisksBearing Fruit

And he dug it, and gathered out its stones, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress in it: and he expected that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. Verse ConceptsAgriculture, TermsFortsExcavationWineskins And Vats