Thematic Bible: Vices


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"Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms by injustice, who makes his neighbor serve him for nothing and does not give him his wages, Verse ConceptsDishonesty, Kinds OfInjustice, Nature And Source OfLeaders, PoliticalMastersRiches, Dangers OfServants, Working Conditions OfWagesUnjust GainDishonesty CondemnedEmployersPresumptuous PlansWoe To The WickedInjustice



"Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms by injustice, who makes his neighbor serve him for nothing and does not give him his wages, Verse ConceptsDishonesty, Kinds OfInjustice, Nature And Source OfLeaders, PoliticalMastersRiches, Dangers OfServants, Working Conditions OfWagesUnjust GainDishonesty CondemnedEmployersPresumptuous PlansWoe To The WickedInjustice




"Behold, I strike my hand at the dishonest gain that you have made, and at the blood that has been in your midst. Verse ConceptsExtortionUnjust GainCommerceBeating OneselfKilling Many People


to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey! Verse ConceptsFraudThe NeedyPlunderingHuntingOppression, Nature OfPoverty, Attitudes TowardsPoor, Oppression OfExtortionNo JusticeNot Helping WidowsHelping The Pooroppression

In you they take bribes to shed blood; you take interest and profit and make gain of your neighbors by extortion; but me you have forgotten, declares the Lord GOD. Verse ConceptsFraudCreditCovenant breakersExcessGreed, Condemnation OfInjustice, Nature And Source OfInterestMoney, Stewardship OfBusiness EthicsCovetousness, Results InExtortionSheddingKilling The InnocentOppressors


But when that same servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii, and seizing him, he began to choke him, saying, 'Pay what you owe.' Verse ConceptsFraudUnmercifulnessExtortion, Examples OfDenariusExtortionGraspingSettling AccountsDebtServant Leadership


And he said to them, "Collect no more than you are authorized to do." Verse ConceptsMoney, Stewardship OfTaxExtortionBeing Contenttaxes

not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. Verse ConceptsGreed, Condemnation OfExtortionNature Of IdolatryGreedSexual ImmoralitySexual Puritycheaters

And Jezebel his wife said to him, "Do you now govern Israel? Arise and eat bread and let your heart be cheerful; I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite." Verse ConceptsDishonesty, Examples OfTemptressesEating Drinking And RejoicingExercisejezebel

When Abraham reproved Abimelech about a well of water that Abimelech's servants had seized, Verse ConceptsServants, BadWellsDishonesty, Examples Of

the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, "The water is ours." So he called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him. Verse ConceptsServants, BadDishonesty, Examples OfPeople Possessing Other ThingsPeople Naming ThingsStock Keeping

These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times. Verse ConceptsdowryCovetousness, Example OfDishonesty, Examples OfThe Number FourteenTen TimesSix YearsTen To Fourteen Years20 To 30 YearsChangeServing Individuals

Israel has sinned; they have transgressed my covenant that I commanded them; they have taken some of the devoted things; they have stolen and lied and put them among their own belongings. Verse ConceptsRiches, Dangers OfStealingDishonesty, Examples OfBreaking The CovenantIndividuals Who LiedUnder The Ban

And he said to his mother, "The 1,100 pieces of silver that were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse, and also spoke it in my ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it." And his mother said, "Blessed be my son by the LORD." Verse ConceptsDishonesty, Examples OfUnder The BanMay God Bless!Money Blessingsmums

And the five men who had gone to scout out the land went up and entered and took the carved image, the ephod, the household gods, and the metal image, while the priest stood by the entrance of the gate with the 600 men armed with weapons of war. Verse ConceptsDishonesty, Examples OfFive PeopleSix To Seven HundredStanding In The GatewaySix Hundred And Above

"If anyone sins and commits a breach of faith against the LORD by deceiving his neighbor in a matter of deposit or security, or through robbery, or if he has oppressed his neighbor Verse ConceptsFraudCovenant breakersServants, BadUnfaithfulness, To GodAvoiding Deceitcheaters

Do not gaze at me because I am dark, because the sun has looked upon me. My mother's sons were angry with me; they made me keeper of the vineyards, but my own vineyard I have not kept! Verse ConceptsAfrican AmericansScorchingLooking Intently At PeopleBlack PeopleUnnamed People Angry With OthersSunMothers And SonsColorSunshine

You also took your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men, and with them played the whore. Verse ConceptsFraudCovenant breakersGoldTreasureJewelleryBeauty Of Thingsjewelry

And if you have not been faithful in that which is another's, who will give you that which is your own? Verse ConceptsFraudPossessingServants, BadFaithfulnessPropertyTreating OthersTrusting OthersMoney Managementpossessions

He went up from there to Bethel, and while he was going up on the way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him, saying, "Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!" Verse ConceptsBaldnessdisabilitiesImmaturityRoadsTownMockingWicked Children, Examples OfInfidelity To GodDisrespect For Old AgeAge DiscriminationKidsFunhumorharassment


On my right hand the rabble rise; they push away my feet; they cast up against me their ways of destruction. Verse ConceptsRight Sides

And the people will oppress one another, every one his fellow and every one his neighbor; the youth will be insolent to the elder, and the despised to the honorable. Verse ConceptsOld Age, Attitudes ToBad ChildrenDisrespect For Old AgeDiscourtesyOppressorsThe Elderly



But you yourselves wrong and defraud--even your own brothers! Verse ConceptsFraudRobbing PeopleWronging Other PeopleBeing Gaycheaters

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