Thematic Bible: Want of


Thematic Bible




What good is it, my brethren, if a man professes to have faith, and yet his actions do not correspond? Can such faith save him? Suppose a Christian brother or sister is poorly clad or lacks daily food, and one of you says to them, "I wish you well; keep yourselves warm and well fed," and yet you do not give them what they need; what is the use of that?


If any one does not continue in me, he is like the unfruitful branch which is at once thrown away and then withers up. Such branches they gather up and throw into the fire and they are burned. Verse ConceptsFailureWarnings Against ApostasyCastawaysHell, As Incentive To ActionPrayerlessnessThrowing AwaySanctification, Means And ResultsUnfruitfulnessAbiding With GodPeople WitheredBurning PlantsBranches Of ChristUnconditional Love

Notice therefore God's kindness and God's severity. On those who have fallen His severity has descended, but upon you His kindness has come, provided that you do not cease to respond to that kindness. Otherwise you will be cut off also. Verse ConceptsGod's attitude towards peopleKindnessRemindersUnkindnessSeparation From GodAbiding With GodDownfall Of IsraelStrictnessThe Grace Of GodKindness As A Fruit Of The SpiritGoodness

Some falls on the rocky ground where it finds but little earth, and it shoots up quickly because it has no depth of soil; Verse ConceptsShallownessSprouting PlantsSuddenlySproutingThings Going Up

but they have no root within them. They last for a time; then, when suffering or persecution comes because of the Message, they are immediately overthrown. Verse ConceptsAfflictions, In Christian LivingShallownessFor The Sake Of ThingsPersecutionpressure

For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once for all been enlightened, and have tasted the sweetness of the heavenly gift, and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have realized how good the word of God is and how mighty are the powers of the coming Age, and then fell away-- it is impossible, I say, to keep bringing them back to a new repentance, for, to their own undoing, they are repeatedly crucifying the Son of God afresh and exposing Him to open shame.