'Thing' in the Bible

Who has ever heard of such a thing? Who has ever seen this? Can a country be brought forth in one day? Can a nation be born in a single moment? Yet as soon as Zion goes into labor she gives birth to sons!

Go west across the sea to the coasts of Cyprus and see. Send someone east to Kedar and have them look carefully. See if such a thing as this has ever happened:

"My, how good you have become at chasing after your lovers! Why, you could even teach prostitutes a thing or two!

They have also built places of worship in a place called Topheth in the Valley of Ben Hinnom so that they can sacrifice their sons and daughters by fire. That is something I never commanded them to do! Indeed, it never even entered my mind to command such a thing!

The Lord says, "These people are like soldiers who have readied their bows. Their tongues are always ready to shoot out lies. They have become powerful in the land, but they have not done so by honest means. Indeed, they do one evil thing after another and do not pay attention to me.

They do one act of violence after another, and one deceitful thing after another. They refuse to pay attention to me," says the Lord.

They have built places here for worship of the god Baal so that they could sacrifice their children as burnt offerings to him in the fire. Such sacrifices are something I never commanded them to make! They are something I never told them to do! Indeed, such a thing never even entered my mind!

I will make this city an object of horror, a thing to be hissed at. All who pass by it will be filled with horror and will hiss out their scorn because of all the disasters that have happened to it.

You, Pashhur, and all your household will go into exile in Babylon. You will die there and you will be buried there. The same thing will happen to all your friends to whom you have prophesied lies.'"

"'People from other nations will pass by this city. They will ask one another, "Why has the Lord done such a thing to this great city?"

I told King Zedekiah of Judah the same thing. I said, "Submit to the yoke of servitude to the king of Babylon. Be subject to him and his people. Then you will continue to live.

They built places of worship for the god Baal in the Valley of Ben Hinnom so that they could sacrifice their sons and daughters to the god Molech. Such a disgusting practice was not something I commanded them to do! It never even entered my mind to command them to do such a thing! So Judah is certainly liable for punishment.'

I sent my servants the prophets to you people over and over again warning you not to do this disgusting thing I hate.

So I went in and looked. I noticed every figure of creeping thing and beast -- detestable images -- and every idol of the house of Israel, engraved on the wall all around.

He said to me, "Do you see, son of man? Is it a trivial thing that the house of Judah commits these abominations they are practicing here? For they have filled the land with violence and provoked me to anger still further. Look, they are putting the branch to their nose!

They may eat the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering, and every devoted thing in Israel will be theirs.

If you don't inform me of the dream, there is only one thing that is going to happen to you. For you have agreed among yourselves to report to me something false and deceitful until such time as things might change. So tell me the dream, and I will have confidence that you can disclose its interpretation."

The wise men replied to the king, "There is no man on earth who is able to disclose the king's secret, for no king, regardless of his position and power, has ever requested such a thing from any magician, astrologer, or wise man.

I have seen a disgusting thing in the temple of Israel: there Ephraim practices temple prostitution and Judah defiles itself.

Her conquerors cry out: "Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold!" There is no end to the treasure; riches of every kind of precious thing.

And,' says the Lord who rules over all, 'though such a thing may seem to be difficult in the opinion of the small community of those days, will it also appear difficult to me?' asks the Lord who rules over all.

Now someone came up to him and said, "Teacher, what good thing must I do to gain eternal life?"

So they went. When he went out again about noon and three o'clock that afternoon, he did the same thing.

The father went to the other son and said the same thing. This boy answered, 'I will, sir,' but did not go.

Peter said to him, "Even if I must die with you, I will never deny you." And all the disciples said the same thing.

So leaving them again, he went away and prayed for the third time, saying the same thing once more.

As Jesus looked at him, he felt love for him and said, "You lack one thing. Go, sell whatever you have and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me."

But Peter insisted emphatically, "Even if I must die with you, I will never deny you." And all of them said the same thing.

He went away again and prayed the same thing.

When the angels left them and went back to heaven, the shepherds said to one another, "Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has taken place, that the Lord has made known to us."

but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the best part; it will not be taken away from her."

So if you cannot do such a very little thing as this, why do you worry about the rest?

When Jesus heard this, he said to him, "One thing you still lack. Sell all that you have and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me."

All things were created by him, and apart from him not one thing was created that has been created.

He replied, "I do not know whether he is a sinner. I do know one thing -- that although I was blind, now I can see."

The man replied, "This is a remarkable thing, that you don't know where he comes from, and yet he caused me to see!

The same thing happened in Iconium when Paul and Barnabas went into the Jewish synagogue and spoke in such a way that a large group of both Jews and Greeks believed.

So then some were shouting one thing, some another, for the assembly was in confusion, and most of them did not know why they had met together.

But some in the crowd shouted one thing, and others something else, and when the commanding officer was unable to find out the truth because of the disturbance, he ordered Paul to be brought into the barracks.

other than this one thing I shouted out while I stood before them: 'I am on trial before you today concerning the resurrection of the dead.'"

"While doing this very thing, as I was going to Damascus with authority and complete power from the chief priests,

But any woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered disgraces her head, for it is one and the same thing as having a shaved head.

And I wrote this very thing to you, so that when I came I would not have sadness from those who ought to make me rejoice, since I am confident in you all that my joy would be yours.

Therefore "come out from their midst, and be separate," says the Lord, "and touch no unclean thing, and I will welcome you,

For see what this very thing, this sadness as God intended, has produced in you: what eagerness, what defense of yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what deep concern, what punishment! In everything you have proved yourselves to be innocent in this matter.

(To my disgrace I must say that we were too weak for that!) But whatever anyone else dares to boast about (I am speaking foolishly), I also dare to boast about the same thing.

They requested only that we remember the poor, the very thing I also was eager to do.

The only thing I want to learn from you is this: Did you receive the Spirit by doing the works of the law or by believing what you heard?

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision carries any weight -- the only thing that matters is faith working through love.

For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything; the only thing that matters is a new creation!

For you can be confident of this one thing: that no person who is immoral, impure, or greedy (such a person is an idolater) has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

For I am sure of this very thing, that the one who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.

encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good thing you do or say.

For we have brought nothing into this world and so we cannot take a single thing out either.

Protect that good thing entrusted to you, through the Holy Spirit who lives within us.

It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

equip you with every good thing to do his will, working in us what is pleasing before him through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever. Amen.

Moreover, we possess the prophetic word as an altogether reliable thing. You do well if you pay attention to this as you would to a light shining in a murky place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.

Now, dear friends, do not let this one thing escape your notice, that a single day is like a thousand years with the Lord and a thousand years are like a single day.