Thematic Bible: Special
Thematic Bible
Exhortations » Special » To hearken to admonition
Listen, all you nations! Pay attention, all inhabitants of earth! The sovereign Lord will testify against you; the Lord will accuse you from his majestic palace.
Now, Israel, pay attention to the statutes and ordinances I am about to teach you, so that you might live and go on to enter and take possession of the land that the Lord, the God of your ancestors, is giving you.
He said: "Pay attention, all you people of Judah, residents of Jerusalem, and King Jehoshaphat! This is what the Lord says to you: 'Don't be afraid and don't panic because of this huge army! For the battle is not yours, but God's.
"Therefore, listen to me, you men of understanding. Far be it from God to do wickedness, from the Almighty to do evil.
"Listen to me, you who pursue godliness, who seek the Lord! Look at the rock from which you were chiseled, at the quarry from which you were dug!
Then he called the crowd again and said to them, "Listen to me, everyone, and understand.
Listen, my dear brothers and sisters! Did not God choose the poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that he promised to those who love him?
Exhortations » Special » To avoid various forms of evil
O Timothy, protect what has been entrusted to you. Avoid the profane chatter and absurdities of so-called "knowledge."
Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, to watch out for those who create dissensions and obstacles contrary to the teaching that you learned. Avoid them!
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But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, quarrels, and fights about the law, because they are useless and empty.
Avoid it, do not go on it; turn away from it, and go on.
But avoid profane chatter, because those occupied with it will stray further and further into ungodliness,
But reject foolish and ignorant controversies, because you know they breed infighting.
Exhortations » Special » To redeem the time
Conduct yourselves with wisdom toward outsiders, making the most of the opportunities.
So remember your Creator in the days of your youth -- before the difficult days come, and the years draw near when you will say, "I have no pleasure in them";
So teach us to consider our mortality, so that we might live wisely.
And I say this, brothers and sisters: The time is short. So then those who have wives should be as those who have none,
taking advantage of every opportunity, because the days are evil.
Exhortations » Special » To hold fast the good
And let us hold unwaveringly to the hope that we confess, for the one who made the promise is trustworthy.
Therefore since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast to our confession.
But Christ is faithful as a son over God's house. We are of his house, if in fact we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope we take pride in.
But examine all things; hold fast to what is good.
Therefore, remember what you received and heard, and obey it, and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will never know at what hour I will come against you.
Exhortations » Special » To choose between God and evil
If you have no desire to worship the Lord, choose today whom you will worship, whether it be the gods whom your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. But I and my family will worship the Lord!"
Elijah approached all the people and said, "How long are you going to be paralyzed by indecision? If the Lord is the true God, then follow him, but if Baal is, follow him!" But the people did not say a word.
So Moses stood at the entrance of the camp and said, "Whoever is for the Lord, come to me." All the Levites gathered around him,
Today I invoke heaven and earth as a witness against you that I have set life and death, blessing and curse, before you. Therefore choose life so that you and your descendants may live!
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through whom we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in the hope of God's glory.
Nevertheless you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all know.
God has revealed these to us by the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.
He replied, "You have been given the opportunity to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but they have not.
that is, the mystery that has been kept hidden from ages and generations, but has now been revealed to his saints. God wanted to make known to them the glorious riches of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
Then Jesus turned to his disciples and said privately, "Blessed are the eyes that see what you see!
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