Thematic Bible: Thyself
Thematic Bible
Keep » Thyself
“When you go out as an army [to fight] against your enemies, you shall keep yourselves from every evil [thing].
that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from [consuming] blood, and from [eating the meat of] things that have been strangled, and from sexual impurity. If you keep yourselves from these things, you will do well. Farewell.”
Verse Concepts
“Only pay attention and watch yourselves closely so that you do not forget the things which your eyes have seen and they do not depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your grandchildren [impressing these things on their mind and penetrating their heart with these truths]—
Verse Concepts
Watch over your heart with all diligence,
For from it flow the springs of life.
Do not hurry to lay hands on anyone [ordaining and approving someone for ministry or an office in the church, or in reinstating expelled offenders], and thereby share in the sins of others; keep yourself free from sin.
Verse Concepts
Pure and unblemished religion [as it is expressed in outward acts] in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit and look after the fatherless and the widows in their distress, and to keep oneself uncontaminated by the [secular] world.
Verse Concepts
Little children (believers, dear ones), guard yourselves from idols—[false teachings, moral compromises, and anything that would take God’s place in your heart].
Verse Concepts
and keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting anxiously and looking forward to the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ [which will bring you] to eternal life.
Verse Concepts
Related Topics
- Absent Fathers
- Abstaining From Meats
- Abstinence
- Acceptance, Of Worship
- Acceptance, divine
- Active Lifestyles
- Adultery, Spiritual
- Affection
- Afflicted, Duty To Them
- Agape Love
- Age Discrimination
- Ancestral Worship
- Associations
- Avoid Immorality
- Avoiding Evil
- Avoiding Idolatry
- Avoiding Sin
- Baby dedication
- Bad Company
- Bad Thoughts
- Being A Kid
- Being A Leader
- Being Loved
- Bereaved, Care For
- Blamelessness, In Christian Living
- Blood
- Cares Of This World
- Caring For Children
- Caring For Others
- Caution
- Changing Yourself
- Charge
- Childrearing
- Children, needs of
- Choking
- Christians Are Called Children
- Civilization
- Commitment, to the world
- Compassion, Examples Of
- Controlling Your Thoughts
- Courting
- Creatures Choked
- Cults
- Dating
- Diligence, Objects Of
- Do Not Be Rash
- Evil Associations
- Exclusiveness
- Exploitations
- Fathers, Responsibilities Of
- Faultlessness
- Fellowship With Sinners
- Food Offered To Idols
- Forgetting
- Forgetting God
- Generations
- Giving, Of Possessions
- God Caring For Orphans
- God Will Show Mercy
- God's Love For Us
- Gods Love
- Guarding Yourself
- Guards
- Holiness, Worldly Separation
- Honor
- Hope And Love
- Idolatry
- Imagination, Inward Desires
- Laying On Hands To Commission
- Laying On Of Hands
- Learning From The Past
- Life Through Christ
- Love
- Love For God
- Love To Others Shown In
- Love, In Relationships
- Loving Yourself
- Mercy And Grace
- Misleading Children
- Nature Of The Heart
- Ordination
- Orphans
- Parents Duty To Children
- Participation, In Sin
- Past, The
- People Consuming Blood
- People Helping Orphans
- Perfection, Human
- Poverty, Attitudes Towards
- Prohibition
- Pure People
- Purity Of Heart
- Purity, Moral And Spiritual
- Rashness
- Reformation
- Religion
- Responsibility
- Restored In Jesus Christ
- Schools
- Sensitivity
- Sexual Immorality
- Sexual Purity
- Sexual Sin, Nature Of
- Shepherds, As Church Leader
- Social Justice
- Society, Negative Aspects Of
- Society, Positive Aspects Of
- Spiritual Warfare, Armour
- Taking Care Of Your Body
- Teaching Children
- The Father
- Those Loving God
- Tolerance
- True Religion
- Vigilance
- Visiting Of The Sick
- Waiting For The Second Coming
- Waiting On The Lord
- Warning
- Watchfulness, Of Believers
- Widows
- Widows, Should Be
- Credibility
- Diligence
- Discipline, in the family
- Discouragement
- Eternity
- Ethics, incentives towards
- Ethics, personal
- Ethics, social
- Goodbyes
- Natural Life
- Problems