Thematic Bible


Thematic Bible



I will stretch out My hand against Judah and against all the residents of Jerusalem. I will cut off from this place every vestige of Baal, the names of the pagan priests along with the priests; those who bow in worship on the rooftops to the heavenly host; those who bow and pledge loyalty to the Lord but also pledge loyalty to Milcom; and those who turn back from following the Lord, who do not seek the Lord or inquire of Him.

not staying away from our meetings, as some habitually do, but encouraging each other, and all the more as you see the day drawing near. For if we deliberately sin after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a terrifying expectation of judgment, and the fury of a fire about to consume the adversaries. read more.
If anyone disregards Moses' law, he dies without mercy, based on the testimony of two or three witnesses. How much worse punishment, do you think one will deserve who has trampled on the Son of God, regarded as profane the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and insulted the Spirit of grace? For we know the One who has said, Vengeance belongs to Me, I will repay, and again, The Lord will judge His people. It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God!

But we are not those who draw back and are destroyed, but those who have faith and obtain life. Verse ConceptsPerditionSteadfastness, Examples OfSaved By FaithBackslidersThe SoulpreservationChrist As The Object Of Saving Faith


For if, having escaped the world's impurity through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in these things and defeated, the last state is worse for them than the first. For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them. It has happened to them according to the true proverb: A dog returns to its own vomit, and, "a sow, after washing itself, wallows in the mud."

I will stretch out My hand against Judah and against all the residents of Jerusalem. I will cut off from this place every vestige of Baal, the names of the pagan priests along with the priests; those who bow in worship on the rooftops to the heavenly host; those who bow and pledge loyalty to the Lord but also pledge loyalty to Milcom; and those who turn back from following the Lord, who do not seek the Lord or inquire of Him.

not staying away from our meetings, as some habitually do, but encouraging each other, and all the more as you see the day drawing near. For if we deliberately sin after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a terrifying expectation of judgment, and the fury of a fire about to consume the adversaries. read more.
If anyone disregards Moses' law, he dies without mercy, based on the testimony of two or three witnesses. How much worse punishment, do you think one will deserve who has trampled on the Son of God, regarded as profane the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and insulted the Spirit of grace? For we know the One who has said, Vengeance belongs to Me, I will repay, and again, The Lord will judge His people. It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God!

But we are not those who draw back and are destroyed, but those who have faith and obtain life. Verse ConceptsPerditionSteadfastness, Examples OfSaved By FaithBackslidersThe SoulpreservationChrist As The Object Of Saving Faith


For if, having escaped the world's impurity through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in these things and defeated, the last state is worse for them than the first. For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them. It has happened to them according to the true proverb: A dog returns to its own vomit, and, "a sow, after washing itself, wallows in the mud."

After Amaziah came from the attack on the Edomites, he brought the gods of the Seirites and set them up as his gods. He worshiped before them and burned incense to them. Verse ConceptsBowingTwelve Beings

He did what was right in the Lord’s sight but not wholeheartedly. Verse ConceptsHalf HeartednessLosing A FriendDoing The Right Thingdevotion

They treacherously turned away like their fathers;
they became warped like a faulty bow.
Verse ConceptsFaultsBow And Arrows, Illustrations OfUnreliabilityTwistingUseless PeopleFalling Away From God

What am I going to do with you, Ephraim?
What am I going to do with you, Judah?
Your loyalty is like the morning mist
and like the early dew that vanishes.
Verse ConceptsdewLoyaltyMistMorningUnreliabilityWeather, As God's JudgmentLukewarmnessInstabilityWhat Does God Do?

and those who turn back from following the Lord,
who do not seek the Lord or inquire of Him.
Verse ConceptsComplacencyIndifferenceNot Enquiring Of GodNot Seeking GodguidanceHelping Those In Needfollowing

Just as it is written in the law of Moses, all this disaster has come on us, yet we have not appeased the Lord our God by turning from our iniquities and paying attention to Your truth. Verse ConceptsConversion, nature ofComplacencyPrayerlessnessWritten In The LawSeeking The Favour Of Godclosure

and those who turn back from following the Lord,
who do not seek the Lord or inquire of Him.
Verse ConceptsComplacencyIndifferenceNot Enquiring Of GodNot Seeking GodguidanceHelping Those In Needfollowing

Will evildoers never understand?
They consume My people as they consume bread;
they do not call on God.
Verse ConceptsEating, Metaphorical UseCalling upon GodPrayer, Practicalities OfCharacter Of WickedEvildoersNot PrayingThose Who Were Ignorant


You desire and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. You do not have because you do not ask. Verse ConceptsAmbition, Warnings RegardingPrayer, Practicalities OfPrayerlessnessCovetousness, Nature ofEvil DesiresReady To KillFighting One Anothergrandmas

“But Jacob, you have not called on Me,
because, Israel, you have become weary of Me.
Verse ConceptsComplacencyPrayerlessnessNot PrayingWeary Of Godtired


All of them are as hot as an oven,
and they consume their rulers.
All their kings fall;
not one of them calls on Me.
Verse ConceptsComplacencyHeatHot ThingsAttitudes Towards KingsNot Praying

I will stretch out My hand against Judah and against all the residents of Jerusalem. I will cut off from this place every vestige of Baal, the names of the pagan priests along with the priests; those who bow in worship on the rooftops to the heavenly host; those who bow and pledge loyalty to the Lord but also pledge loyalty to Milcom; and those who turn back from following the Lord, who do not seek the Lord or inquire of Him.