- -  IS VAIN BECAUSE OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS IS
......  But external: ...  Mt 23:25-28; Lu 11:39-44|
......  But partial: ...  Mt 23:25; Lu 11:44|
......  No better than filthy rags: ...  Isa 64:6|
......  Ineffectual for salvation: ...  Job 9:30,31; Mt 5:20; Ro 3:20|
......  Unprofitable: ...  Isa 57:12|

- -  THEY WHO ARE GIVEN TO
......  Audaciously approach God: ...  Lu 18:11|
......  Seek to justify themselves: ...  Lu 10:29|
......  Seek to justify themselves before men: ...  Lu 16:15|
......  Reject the righteousness of God: ...  Ro 10:3|
......  Condemn others: ...  Mt 9:11-13; Lu 7:39|
......  Consider their own way right: ...  Pr 21:2|
......  Despise others: ...  Isa 65:5; Lu 18:9|
......  Proclaim their own goodness: ...  Pr 20:6|
......  Are pure in their own eyes: ...  Pr 30:12|
......  Are abominable before God: ...  Isa 65:5|

- -  Folly of: ...  Job 9:20|
- -  Saints renounce: ...  Php 3:7-10|
- -  Warning against: ...  De 9:4|
- -  Denunciation against: ...  Mt 23:27,28|
- -  Illustrated: ...  Lu 18:10-12|

- -  General scriptures concerning: ...  Nu 16:3; De 9:4-6; 1Sa 2:9; Job 6:13; 11:4-6; 12:2;  13:3,13,15,18,19; 16:17,18; 18:2-4; 21:27-29; 22:2,3;  32:1,2; 33:8,9; 35:2,7,8; Ps 10:5,6; Pr 12:15; 14:12; 16:2;  20:6; 21:2; 25:14,27; 26:12; 27:2,21; 28:13,26; 30:12,13;  Isa 5:21; 28:17,20; 47:7; 50:11; 64:6; 65:3-5; Jer  2:13,22,23,34,35; 7:4; 8:8; 17:5; 49:4,16; Eze 33:24-26; Ho  12:8; Am 6:13; Hab 2:4; Zep 3:11; Mt 7:22,23; 9:10-13; 16:6;  19:16-22; 22:12,13; 23:29-31; Mr 2:16; 8:15; 10:17-22; Lu  5:30; 7:36-50; 10:25-37; 15:2,25-32; 16:14,15;  18:9-14,18-23; Joh 9:34,39-41; Ro 2:17-20; 3:27; 10:3;  11:19-21; 2Co 1:9; 10:17,18; Ga 6:3; Re 3:17,18|

- -  See HYPOCRISY 
- -  See SELF-EXALTATION 

- -  INSTANCES OF
......  Saul: ...  1Sa 15:13-31|
......  Pharisees: ...  Lu 11:33-54; Joh 8:33-59; 9:28-34|
......  Israel: ...  Ro 10:3|
......  The Laodicean congregation: ...  Re 3:17|
......  Young man: ...  Mt 19:20|
......  Lawyer: ...  Lu 10:25,29|
 
 

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SELF-WILL AND STUBBORNNESS
- -  Forbidden: ...  2Ch 30:8; Ps 75:5|
- -  Characteristic of wicked people: ...  Pr 7:11; 2Pe 2:10|
- -  The wicked do not cease from: ...  Jud 2:19|
- -  Punishment for: ...  De 21:21; Pr 29:1|
- -  Illustrated: ...  Ps 32:9; Jer 31:18|
- -  God knows: ...  Isa 48:4|
- -  Heinousness of: ...  1Sa 15:23|

- -  PROCEED FROM
......  Unbelief: ...  2Ki 17:14|
......  Pride: ...  Ne 9:16,29|
......  An evil heart: ...  Jer 7:24|

- -  EXHIBITED IN
......  Refusing to hearken to God: ...  Pr 1:24|
......  Refusing to hearken to the messengers of God: ...  1Sa 8:19; Jer 44:16; Zec 7:11|
......  Refusing to walk in the ways of God: ...  Ne 9:17; Ps 78:10; Isa 42:24; Jer 6:16|
......  Refusing to hearken to parents: ...  De 21:18,19|
......  Refusing to receive correction: ...  De 21:18; Jer 5:3; 7:28|
......  Rebelling against God: ...  De 31:27; Ps 78:8|
......  Resisting the Holy Spirit: ...  Ac 7:51|
......  Walking in the counsels of an evil heart: ...  Jer 7:24; 23:17|
......  Hardening the neck: ...  Ne 9:16|
......  Hardening the heart: ...  2Ch 36:13|
......  Going backward and not forward: ...  Jer 7:24|

- -  MINISTERS SHOULD
......  Be without: ...  Tit 1:7|
......  Warn their people against: ...  Heb 3:7-12|
......  Pray that their people may be forgiven for: ...  Ex 34:9; De 9:27|

- -  PROCEEDS FROM
......  Unbelief: ...  2Ki 17:14|
......  Pride: ...  Ne 9:16,29|
......  An evil heart: ...  Jer 7:24|
 

- -  EXHIBITED IN
......  Refusing to listen to God: ...  Pr 1:24|
......  Refusing to listen to the messengers of God: ...  1Sa 8:19; Jer 44:16; Zec 7:11|
......  Refusing to walk in the ways of God: ...  Ne 9:17; Isa 42:24; Ps 78:10|
......  Refusing to listen to (obey) parents: ...  De 21:18,19|
......  Refusing to receive correction: ...  De 21:18; Jer 5:3; 7:28|
......  Rebelling against God: ...  De 31:27; Ps 78:8|
......  Resisting the Holy Spirit: ...  Ac 7:51|
......  Walking in the counsels of an evil heart: ...  Jer 7:24; with 23:17|
......  Hardening the neck (metaphorically): ...  Ne 9:16|
......  Hardening the heart: ...  2Ch 36:13|
......  Going backward and not forward: ...  Jer 7:24|
......  Heinousness of: ...  1Sa 15:23|

- -  SERVANTS SHOULD
......  Be without: ...  Tit 1:7|
......  Warn the people against: ...  Heb 3:7-12|
......  Pray that the people may be forgiven for: ...  Ex 34:9; De 9:27|

- -  EXEMPLIFIED
......  Simeon and Levi: ...  Ge 49:6|
......  The Israelites: ...  Ex 32:9; De 9:6,13|
......  King Saul: ...  1Sa 15:19-23|
......  David: ...  2Sa 24:4|
......  Josiah: ...  2Ch 35:22|
......  Zedekiah: ...  2Ch 36:13|
......  See OBDURACY 
 
 
 

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SENATE
- -  The Sanhedrin: ...  Ac 5:21|
- -  Senator (an elder): ...  Ps 105:22|
- -  See GOVERNMENT 
- -  See ELDER 
 
 

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SENSUALITY
- -  General scriptures concerning: ...  Ec 2:24; 8:15; 11:9; Isa 22:13; 56:12; Lu 12:19,20; 16:25;  1Co 15:32,33; Jas 5:5; Jude 1:18,19|

- -  See ADULTERY 
- -  See DRUNKENNESS 
- -  See FORNICATION 
- -  See GLUTTONY 
- -  See LASCIVIOUSNESS 
- -  See SELF-INDULGENCE 
- -  See SODOMY 
- -  Also see ABSTINENCE, TOTAL 
- -  See CONTINENCE 
- -  See SELF-DENIAL 
- -  See TEMPERANCE 
 
 

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SENTRY
- -  See WATCHMAN 
 
 

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SEPULCHRE
- -  (Grave, tomb)
- -  See BURIAL 
 
 

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SERAPHIM (SERAPHS)
- -  Celestial beings: ...  Isa 6:2,6|
- -  See CHERUBIM 
 
 

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SERGEANT
- -  General scriptures concerning: ...  Ac 16:35,38|
 
 

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SERMON
- -  Of Jesus, "on the mount,": ...  Mt 5; 6; 7|
- -  Of Jesus, "on the plain,": ...  Lu 6:17-49|
- -  Beside Lake Galilee: ...  Mt 13:1-52; Mr 4:2-33|
- -  See PREACHING 
- -  See MINISTERS 
 
 

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SERPENT
- -  Created by God: ...  Job 26:13|
- -  Characterised as subtle: ...  Ge 3:1; Mt 10:16|
- -  Called crooked: ...  Job 26:13; Isa 27:1|
- -  Unclean and unfit for food: ...  Mt 7:10|
- -  Produced from eggs: ...  Isa 59:5|
- -  Cursed above all creatures: ...  Ge 3:14|
- -  Doomed to creep on their belly: ...  Ge 3:14|
- -  Doomed to eat their food mingled with dust: ...  Ge 3:14; Isa 65:25; Mic 7:17|
- -  Many kinds of poisonous: ...  De 32:24; Ps 58:4|
- -  All kinds of, can be tamed: ...  Jas 3:7|
- -  Were often enchanted or fascinated: ...  Ec 10:11|
- -  Dangerous to travellers: ...  Ge 49:17|
- -  Man's aversion and hatred to: ...  Ge 3:15|
- -  Often sent as a punishment: ...  Nu 21:6; De 32:24; 1Co 10:9|
- -  Satan appears to Eve in the form of: ...  Ge 3:1-15; 2Co 11:3|
- -  Subtlety of: ...  Ge 3:1; Ec 10:8; Mt 10:16|
- -  Curse upon: ...  Ge 3:14,15; 49:17|
- -  Feeds upon the dust: ...  Ge 3:14; Isa 65:25; Mic 7:17|
- -  Venom of: ...  De 32:24,33; Job 20:16; Ps 58:4; 140:3; Pr 23:31,32; Ac  28:5,6|
- -  The staff of Moses transformed into: ...  Ex 4:3; 7:15|
- -  Fiery (poisonous), sent as a plague upon the Israelites: ...  Nu 21:6,7; De 8:15; 1Co 10:9|
- -  The wound of, miraculously healed by looking upon the bronze snake, erected by Moses: ...  Nu 21:8,9|
- -  The charming of: ...  Ps 58:4,5; Ec 10:11; Jer 8:17|
- -  Mentioned in Solomon's riddle: ...  Pr 30:19|
- -  Constriction of: ...  Re 9:19|
- -  Sea serpent: ...  Am 9:3|
- -  The seventy (seventy two) disciples endued with power over: ...  Lu 10:19|
- -  The apostles given power over: ...  Mr 16:18; Ac 28:5|
- -  FIGURATIVE: ...  Isa 14:29; 30:6; 65:25|

- -  INFEST
......  Hedges: ...  Ec 10:8|
......  Holes in walls: ...  Am 5:19|
......  Deserts: ...  De 8:15|

- -  MIRACLES CONNECTED WITH
......  Moses' rod turned into: ...  Ex 4:3; 7:9,15|
......  Israelites cured by looking at one of brass: ...  Nu 21:8,9; Joh 3:14,15|
......  Power over, given to the disciples: ...  Mr 16:18; Lu 10:19|

- -  ILLUSTRATIVE
......  Of the devil: ...  Ge 3:1; 2Co 11:3; Re 12:9; 20:2|
......  Of hypocrites: ...  Mt 23:33|
......  Of the tribe of Dan: ...  Ge 49:17|
......  Of enemies who harass and destroy: ...  Isa 14:29; Jer 8:17|
......  (Sharp tongue of,) of malice of the wicked: ...  Ps 140:3|
......  (Poisonous bite of,) of baneful effects of wine: ...  Pr 23:21,32|