18 occurrences

'Example' in the Bible

"{If a matter is too difficult for you}, [for example disputes] between blood and blood, between legal claim and legal claim and between assault and assault [and between] matters of discernment in your {towns}, then you shall get up and you shall go to the place that Yahweh your God will choose;

Verse ConceptsSacred PlacesHard Tasks

{For example}, when somebody goes with his neighbor into the forest to cut wood, and the iron [head] slips from the handle [of the tool] and strikes his neighbor and he dies, [then] he may flee to one of these cities, and [so] he may live.

Verse ConceptsForestsToolsWoodCarpentry ToolsFelling TreesSharp ToolsIron Objects

I have also seen this [example of] wisdom under the sun, and it [seemed] great to me.

Verse ConceptsUnder The SunMan's Wisdom

"Son of man, raise a lament over the king of Tyre, and you must say to him, 'thus says the Lord Yahweh: "You were a perfect model of an example, full of wisdom and perfect of beauty.

Verse ConceptsSongsPeople Made PerfectThe Beauty Of Nature

[for example], [the] wicked returns a pledge for a loan, he restores {stolen property}, he goes in the statutes of life [so as] not to do injustice--certainly he will live; he will not die.

Verse ConceptsCompensationStealingFulfilling The LawLaws About PledgesLife Through Keeping The LawDebt

And [when they come] from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other [traditions] which they have received [and] hold fast to--[for example,] the washing of cups and pitchers and bronze kettles and dining couches.)

Verse ConceptsMarketsBrassPurifying OneselfClean ObjectsHow People Eatmarketing

so that you became an example to all those who believe in Macedonia and in Achaia,

Verse ConceptsBelieversExample Of Believers

not that we do not have the right, but so that we may give ourselves [as] an example to you, so that [you] may imitate us.

Verse ConceptsImitatingMinisters, Should BeImitating Good PeopleExample Of Believers

and condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes, having appointed [them] [as] an example for those who are going to be ungodly,

Verse ConceptsExamples, Purpose OfSexual Sin, Nature OfAfflictions Of The WickedDestruction Of CitiesTwo CitiesAshes Of HumiliationExamples Of Ungodly Mencondemnation

as Sodom and Gomorrah and the towns around them indulged in sexual immorality and {pursued unnatural desire} [in] the same way as these, are exhibited as an example [by] undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.

Verse ConceptsDeath, Of UnbelieversBestialityCivilizationHomosexualityEternal JudgementTwo CitiesSexual Immorality Brings PunishmentgayssexSexual ImmoralityBeing Gay

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