Thematic Bible: Wicked people
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Power » Of God » Wicked people » Have against them
Power » Of God » Wicked people » Do not know
"Your mistake," replied Jesus, "is due to your ignorance of the Scriptures, and of the power of God.
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Power » Of God » Wicked people » Will be destroyed by
I will show you of whom you should be afraid. Be afraid of him who, after killing you, has the power to fling you into the Pit. Yes, I say, be afraid of him.
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Wicked people » Prosperity of
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Wicked people » Warned
To the Angel of the Church in Sardis write:-- "These are the words of him who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars;--I know your life, and that men say of you that you are living, though you are dead. Be on the watch, and strengthen what still survives, though once it was all but dead; for I have not found your life perfect in the eyes of my God. Therefore remember what you have received and heard, and lay it to heart and repent. Unless you are on the watch, I shall come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I am coming to you.
And John said to the crowds that went to be baptized by him: "You brood of vipers! who has prompted you to seek refuge from the coming judgment? Let your lives, then, prove your repentance; and do not begin to say among yourselves 'Abraham is our ancestor,' for I tell you that out of these very stones God is able to raise descendants for Abraham! Already, indeed, the axe is lying at the root of the trees. Therefore every tree that fails to bear good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire."
These things happened to them by way of warning, and were recorded to serve as a caution to us, in whose days the close of the ages has come.
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For there have crept in among you certain godless people, whose sentence has long since been pronounced, and who make the mercy of God an excuse for profligacy, and disown our only lord and master, Jesus Christ. Now I want to remind you--but you already know it all--that, though the Lord delivered the People from Egypt, yet he afterwards destroyed those who refused to believe in him; and that even those angels, who did not keep to their appointed spheres, but left their proper homes, have been kept by him for the judgment of the Great Day in everlasting chains and black darkness. read more.
Like Sodom and Gomorrah and the towns near them, which gave themselves up to fornication, and fell into unnatural vice, these angels now stand out as a warning, undergoing, as they are, the punishment of aeonian fire.
Like Sodom and Gomorrah and the towns near them, which gave themselves up to fornication, and fell into unnatural vice, these angels now stand out as a warning, undergoing, as they are, the punishment of aeonian fire.
But now, because you are lukewarm, neither hot not cold, I am about to spit you out of my mouth. You say 'I am rich and have grown rich, and I want for nothing,' and you do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, naked! Therefore I counsel you to buy from me gold which has been refined by fire, that you may grow rich; and white robes, that you may be clothed and your shameful nakedness be hidden; and ointment to anoint your eyes, that you may see. read more.
'All whom I love I rebuke and discipline.' Therefore be in earnest and repent.
'All whom I love I rebuke and discipline.' Therefore be in earnest and repent.
Wicked people » Temporal punishment of
Wicked people » Love for
But God puts his love for us beyond all doubt by the fact that Christ died on our behalf while we were still sinners.
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The love of God was revealed to us by his sending his only Son into the world, that we might find Life through him. His love is seen in this--not in our having loved God, but in his loving us and sending his Son to be an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
We have learned to know what love is from this--that Christ laid down his life on our behalf. Therefore we also ought to lay down our lives on behalf of our Brothers.
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OMITTED TEXT What think you? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them strays, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills, and go and search for the one that is straying? And, if he succeeds in finding it, I tell you that he rejoices more over that one sheep than over the ninety-nine which did not stray. read more.
So, too, it is the will of my Father who is in Heaven that not one of these lowly ones should be lost.
So, too, it is the will of my Father who is in Heaven that not one of these lowly ones should be lost.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that every one who believes in him may not be lost, but have Immortal Life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him.
Wicked people » Spirit of God withdrawn from
Therefore God abandoned them to impurity, letting them follow the cravings of their hearts, till they dishonored their own bodies;
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That, I say, is why God abandoned them to degrading passions. Even the women among them perverted the natural use of their bodies to the unnatural;
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Then, as they would not keep God before their minds, God abandoned them to depraved thoughts, so that they did all kinds of shameful things.
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Wicked people » God is angry with
The words of Scripture are-'I loved Jacob, but I hated Esau.'
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Yet with most of them God was displeased; for they were 'struck down in the desert.'
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Wicked people » Compared with » Chaff
His winnowing-fan is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing-floor, and store his grain in the barn, but the chaff he will burn with inextinguishable fire."
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Wicked people » Compared with » Dogs
Do not give what is sacred to dogs; nor yet throw your pearls before pigs, lest they should trample them under their feet, and then turn and attack you.
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In their case is seen the truth of the proverb-- 'A dog returns to what he has vomited' and 'A sow after washing to her wallowing-place in the mud.'
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Wicked people » Compared with » Dross
Wicked people » Worship of » Offensive: » To God
Wicked people » Hate the righteous
Blessed are you when people taunt you, and persecute you, and say everything evil about you--untruly, and on my account. Be glad and rejoice, because your reward in Heaven will be great; for so men persecuted the Prophets who lived before you.
Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they expel you from among them, and taunt you, and reject your Name as an evil thing--on account of the Son of Man. Then indeed you may be glad and dance for joy, for be sure that your reward in Heaven will be great; for that is what their ancestors did to the Prophets.
Wicked people » Compared with » Bronze and iron
Wicked people » Compared with » Briers add thorns
Wicked people » Compared with » Blind people
Let them be; they are but blind guides; and, if one blind man guides another, both of them will fall into a ditch."
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Wicked people » Compared with » Stubble
Wicked people » Compared with » Animals
These men, however, like animals without reason, intended by nature to be caught and killed--these men, I say, malign those of whom they know nothing, and will assuredly perish through their own corruption,
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Wicked people » Hate reproof
Wicked people » Compared with » Serpents
You serpents and brood of vipers! How can you escape being sentenced to the Pit?
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Wicked people » Compared with » Swine (pig)
Do not give what is sacred to dogs; nor yet throw your pearls before pigs, lest they should trample them under their feet, and then turn and attack you.
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In their case is seen the truth of the proverb-- 'A dog returns to what he has vomited' and 'A sow after washing to her wallowing-place in the mud.'
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Wicked people » Compared with » Fiery oven
Wicked people » Compared with » Moth-eaten garments
Wicked people » Death of
Wicked people » Compared with » Grass
Wicked people » Present and future state of evil and righteous persons contrasted, (see below also)
Wicked people » Eliphaz's exhortation to
Wicked people » God's mercy to
Wicked people » False hope of
Wicked people » Gospel invitation to, illustrated by the parables of » The marriage supper
Once more Jesus spoke to them in parables. "The Kingdom of Heaven," he said, "may be compared to a king who gave a banquet in honor of his son's wedding. He sent his servants to call those who had been invited to the banquet, but they were unwilling to come. read more.
A second time he sent some servants, with orders to say to those who had been invited 'I have prepared my breakfast, my cattle and fat beasts are killed and everything is ready; come to the banquet.' They, however, took no notice, but went off, one to his farm, another to his business; While the rest, seizing his servants, ill-treated them and killed them. The king, in anger, sent his troops, put those murderers to death, and set their city on fire. Then he said to his servants 'The banquet is prepared, but those who were invited were not worthy. So go to the cross-roads, and invite everyone you find to the banquet.' The servants went out into the roads and collected all the people whom they found, whether bad or good; and the bridal-hall was filled with guests. But, when the king went in to see his guests, he noticed there a man who had not put on a wedding-robe. So he said to him 'My friend, how is it that you came in here without a wedding-robe?' The man was speechless. Then the king said to the attendants 'Tie him hand and foot, and 'put him out into the darkness' outside, where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.' For many are called, but few chosen."
A second time he sent some servants, with orders to say to those who had been invited 'I have prepared my breakfast, my cattle and fat beasts are killed and everything is ready; come to the banquet.' They, however, took no notice, but went off, one to his farm, another to his business; While the rest, seizing his servants, ill-treated them and killed them. The king, in anger, sent his troops, put those murderers to death, and set their city on fire. Then he said to his servants 'The banquet is prepared, but those who were invited were not worthy. So go to the cross-roads, and invite everyone you find to the banquet.' The servants went out into the roads and collected all the people whom they found, whether bad or good; and the bridal-hall was filled with guests. But, when the king went in to see his guests, he noticed there a man who had not put on a wedding-robe. So he said to him 'My friend, how is it that you came in here without a wedding-robe?' The man was speechless. Then the king said to the attendants 'Tie him hand and foot, and 'put him out into the darkness' outside, where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.' For many are called, but few chosen."
Wicked people » Gospel invitation to, illustrated by the parables of » The householder
For the Kingdom of Heaven is like an employer who went out in the early morning to hire laborers for his vineyards. He agreed with the laborers to pay them two shillings a day, and sent them into his vineyard. On going out again, about nine o'clock, he saw some others standing in the market-place, doing nothing. read more.
'You also may go into my vineyard,' he said, 'and I will pay you what is fair.' So the men went. Going out again about mid-day and about three o'clock, he did as before. When he went out about five, he found some other men standing there, and said to them 'Why have you been standing here all day long, doing nothing?' 'Because no one has hired us,' they answered. 'You also may go into my vineyard,' he said. In the evening the owner of the vineyard said to his steward 'Call the laborers, and pay them their wages, beginning with the last, and ending with the first. Now when those who had been hired about five o'clock went up, they received two shillings each. So, when the first went up, they thought that they would receive more, but they also received two shillings each; On which they began to grumble at their employer. 'These last,' they said, 'have done only one hour's work, and yet you have put them on the same footing with us, who have borne the brunt of the day's work, and the heat.' 'My friend,' was his reply to one of them, 'I am not treating you unfairly. Did not you agree with me for two shillings? Take what belongs to you, and go. I choose to give to this last man the same as to you. Have not I the right to do as I choose with what is mine? Are you envious because I am liberal?' So those who are last will be first, and the first last."
'You also may go into my vineyard,' he said, 'and I will pay you what is fair.' So the men went. Going out again about mid-day and about three o'clock, he did as before. When he went out about five, he found some other men standing there, and said to them 'Why have you been standing here all day long, doing nothing?' 'Because no one has hired us,' they answered. 'You also may go into my vineyard,' he said. In the evening the owner of the vineyard said to his steward 'Call the laborers, and pay them their wages, beginning with the last, and ending with the first. Now when those who had been hired about five o'clock went up, they received two shillings each. So, when the first went up, they thought that they would receive more, but they also received two shillings each; On which they began to grumble at their employer. 'These last,' they said, 'have done only one hour's work, and yet you have put them on the same footing with us, who have borne the brunt of the day's work, and the heat.' 'My friend,' was his reply to one of them, 'I am not treating you unfairly. Did not you agree with me for two shillings? Take what belongs to you, and go. I choose to give to this last man the same as to you. Have not I the right to do as I choose with what is mine? Are you envious because I am liberal?' So those who are last will be first, and the first last."
Wicked people » Compared with » Carcasses trodden underfoot
Wicked people » Compared with » A wild donkey's colts
Wicked people » Compared with » Corn (grain) blasted
Wicked people » Compared with » Disturbed sea
Wicked people » Compared with » Raging waves of the sea
They are wild sea waves, foaming with their own shame; they are 'wandering stars,' for which the blackest darkness has been reserved for ever.
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Wicked people » Compared with » Grass on the housetop
Wicked people » Compared with » Clouds without water
These are the men who are blots upon your 'Love-feasts,' when they feast together and provide without scruple for themselves alone. They are clouds without rain, driven before the winds; they are leafless trees without a vestige of fruit, dead through and through, torn up by the roots;
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Wicked people » Compared with » Abominable branches
Wicked people » Compared with » Wandering stars
They are wild sea waves, foaming with their own shame; they are 'wandering stars,' for which the blackest darkness has been reserved for ever.
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Wicked people » Compared with » Fire of thorns
Wicked people » Dreading God
Wicked people » Compared with » The bulls of bashan
Wicked people » Compared with » Whited gravesites
Alas for you, Teachers of the Law and Pharisees, hypocrites that you are! You are like whitewashed tombs, which indeed look fair outside, while inside they are filled with dead men's bones and all kinds of filth.
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Wicked people » Compared with » The fuel of fire
Wicked people » Compared with » Green bay tree
Wicked people » Compared with » Potsherds
Wicked people » Compared with » Bad figs
Wicked people » Compared with » Bad fish
When it was full, they hauled it up on the beach, and sat down and sorted the good fish into baskets, but threw the worthless ones away.
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Wicked people » Compared with » Garden without water
Wicked people » Compared with » Visions of the night
Wicked people » Compared with » Lions greedy of prey
Wicked people » Compared with » Wells without water
These men are like springs without water, or mists driven before a gale; and for them the blackest darkness has been reserved.
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Wicked people » Compared with » Heath in the desert
Wicked people » Compared with » Passing whirlwinds
Wicked people » Compared with » Reprobate silver
Wicked people » Compared with » Wayward children
But to what shall I compare the present generation? It is like little children sitting in the market-places and calling out to their playmates--
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Wicked people » Compared with » Fading oaks
Wicked people » Compared with » Wheels
Wicked people » Compared with » Tares
The field is the world. By the good seed is meant the People of the Kingdom. The tares are the wicked,
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Wicked people » Compared with » Goats
And all the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people--just as a shepherd separates sheep from goats- -
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Wicked people » Compared with » Early dew that passes away
Wicked people » Compared with » Morning clouds
Wicked people » Compared with » Horses rushing into the battle
Wicked people » Compared with » Fools building upon sand
And every one that listens to this teaching of mine and does not act upon it may be compared to a foolish man, who built his house on the sand.
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Wicked people » Compared with » Ashes under the feet
Wicked people » Compared with » Corrupt trees
There is no such thing as a good tree bearing worthless fruit, or, on the other hand, a worthless tree bearing good fruit.
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Wicked people » Compared with » Stony ground,
Some fell on rocky places, where it had not much soil, and, having no depth of soil, sprang up at once.
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Wicked people » Compared with » Green herbs
Wicked people » Compared with » Deaf adders
Wicked people » Compared with » Melting wax
Wicked people » Compared with » Scorpions
Wicked people » Compared with » Smoke
Wicked people » Terrors of, at the judgment
'He is coming among the clouds!' Every eye shall see him, even those who pierced him; 'and all the nations of the earth shall wail for fear of him.' So shall it be. Amen.
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