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Thematic Bible



Give not that which is holy to dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.

But it hath happened to them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and, The sow that was washed, to her wallowing in the mire.



Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his floor, and gather his wheat into the granary; but he will burn the chaff with unquenchable fire.

They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.

The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.


Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like dross: therefore I love thy testimonies.

Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver. Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Because ye are all become dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.



And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the LORD: and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung.


Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver.

They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.


Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir-tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle-tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.

And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.



But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption:


Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;



Give not that which is holy to dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.

But it hath happened to them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and, The sow that was washed, to her wallowing in the mire.


Behold the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.

For the moth shall eat them like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.


For behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.


When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:



They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it is leavened.

Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thy anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.


Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.




Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the house-tops, and as corn blasted before it is grown up.


Which, when it was full, they drew to the shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast away the bad.


And as the bad figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so bad; surely thus saith the LORD, So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt:




Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the house-tops, and as corn blasted before it is grown up.


For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.


Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like whitened sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.


Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them.


But to what shall I liken this generation? It is like to children sitting in the markets, and calling to their fellows,




But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcass trodden under feet.


But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.


I hearkened and heard, but they spoke not aright: no man repented of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth to the battle.


And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened to a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand:




But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcass trodden under feet.


They encompassed me like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.


Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth:


Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.


I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.


Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother.


And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.


O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.


For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.


And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts.


Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.


For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.


They that make them are like them; so is every one that trusteth in them.


Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind from the floor, and as the smoke from the chimney.


Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind from the floor, and as the smoke from the chimney.




Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;


As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.


Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind from the floor, and as the smoke from the chimney.


For vain man would be wise, though man is born like a wild ass's colt.


Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.


These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about by winds; withered autumnal trees, without fruit, twice dead, plucked out by the roots;


For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.


He shall fly away as a dream, and will not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.