Thematic Bible: Thorn


Thematic Bible



Because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, for this reason, to keep me from exalting myself, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me—to keep me from exalting myself!

but you know that it was because of a bodily illness that I preached the gospel to you the first time;


And after twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on His head, and a reed in His right hand; and they knelt down before Him and mocked Him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”

They *dressed Him up in purple, and after twisting a crown of thorns, they put it on Him;

Jesus then came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate *said to them, “Behold, the Man!”

And the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on His head, and put a purple robe on Him;


They surrounded me like bees;
They were extinguished as a fire of thorns;
In the name of the Lord I will surely cut them off.

For as the crackling of thorn bushes under a pot,
So is the laughter of the fool;
And this too is futility.

Before your pots can feel the fire of thorns
He will sweep them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.


Because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, for this reason, to keep me from exalting myself, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me—to keep me from exalting myself!

But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it shall come about that those whom you let remain of them will become as pricks in your eyes and as thorns in your sides, and they will trouble you in the land in which you live.


The best of them is like a briar,
The most upright like a thorn hedge.
The day when you post your watchmen,
Your punishment will come.
Then their confusion will occur.

“Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her way with thorns,
And I will build a wall against her so that she cannot find her paths.



Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns came up and choked them out.


“Can you put a rope in his nose
Or pierce his jaw with a hook?


Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse;
He who guards himself will be far from them.


“Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you;
And you will eat the plants of the field;