Thematic Bible: Special
Thematic Bible
Exhortations » Special » To hearken to admonition
"Listen, people! All of you! Earth! Pay attention, and all you inhabitants of it! May the Lord GOD be a witness against you the Lord from his holy Temple.
"Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and the ordinances that I'm teaching you to observe so you may live and go in to take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your ancestors, is about to give you.
"Pay attention, everyone in Judah, in Jerusalem, and you, too, King Jehoshaphat! This is what the LORD says to you: "Stop being afraid, and stop being discouraged because of this vast invasion force, because the battle doesn't belong to you, but to God.
"Therefore you men of understanding, listen to me! Far be it for God to practice wickedness, or the Almighty to do what is wrong,
"Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness, you who seek the LORD! Look to the rock from which you were cut, to the quarry from which you were hewn.
Then he called to the crowd again and told them, "Listen to me, all of you, and understand!
Listen, my dear brothers! God has chosen the poor in the world to become rich in faith and to be heirs of the kingdom that he promised to those who keep on loving him, has he not?
Exhortations » Special » To avoid various forms of evil
Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you. Avoid the pointless discussions and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge.
Now I urge you, brothers, to watch out for those who create divisions and sinful enticements that oppose the teaching you have learned. Stay away from them,
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But avoid foolish controversies, arguments about genealogies, quarrels, and fights about the Law. These things are useless and worthless.
Avoid it! Don't travel on it! Turn away from it, and pass on by.
However, avoid pointless discussions. For people will become more and more ungodly,
Do not have anything to do with foolish and stupid discussions, because you know they breed arguments.
Exhortations » Special » To redeem the time
So remember your Creator during your youth! Otherwise, troublesome days will come and years will creep up on you when you'll say, "I find no pleasure in them,"
teach us to keep account of our days so we may develop inner wisdom.
This is what I mean, brothers: The time is short. From now on, those who have wives should live as though they had none,
making the best use of your time because the times are evil.
Exhortations » Special » To hold fast the good
Let us continue to hold firmly to the hope that we confess without wavering, for the one who made the promise is faithful.
Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has gone to heaven, Jesus the Son of God, let us live our lives consistent with our confession of faith.
but the Messiah was faithful as the Son in charge of God's household, and we are his household if we hold on to our courage and the hope in which we rejoice.
Instead, test everything. Hold on to what is good.
So remember what you received and heard. Obey it, and repent. If you are not alert, I will come like a thief, and you won't know the time when I will come to you.
Exhortations » Special » To choose between God and evil
If you think it's the wrong thing for you to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves today whom you will serve the gods whom your ancestors served on the other side of the Euphrates River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose territories you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD."
where Elijah approached all the people and asked them, "How long will you keep hesitating between both sides? If the LORD is God, go after him. If Baal, go after him." But the people didn't say a word.
he stood in the gate of the camp and called out: "Whoever is for the LORD come over to me," and all the sons of Levi gathered around him.
I call heaven and earth to testify against you today! I've set life and death before you today: both blessings and curses. Choose life, that it may be well with you you and your children.
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Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace by which we have been established, and we boast because of our hope in God's glory.
You have an anointing from the Holy One and know all things.
But God has revealed those things to us by his Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the deep things of God.
He answered them, "You have been given knowledge about the secrets of the kingdom from heaven, but it hasn't been given to them,
This secret was hidden throughout the ages and generations but has now been revealed to his saints, to whom God wanted to make known the glorious riches of this secret among the gentiles which is the Messiah in you, our glorious hope.
Then turning to his disciples in private, he told them, "How blessed are the eyes that see what you see!
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