13 Bible Verses about Guarding Yourself

Be serious! Be alert! Your adversary the Devil is prowling around like a roaring lion, looking for anyone he can devour.

Little children, guard yourselves from idols.

Guard your heart above all else,
for it is the source of life.

Pay close attention to your life and your teaching; persevere in these things, for by doing this you will save both yourself and your hearers.

For the choir director, for Jeduthun. A Davidic psalm.I said, “I will guard my ways
so that I may not sin with my tongue;
I will guard my mouth with a muzzle
as long as the wicked are in my presence.”

Watch yourselves so you don’t lose what we have worked for, but that you may receive a full reward.

Put on the full armor of God so that you can stand against the tactics of the Devil.

Be alert, stand firm in the faith, act like a man, be strong.

Watch out for him yourself because he strongly opposed our words.

“Only be on your guard and diligently watch yourselves, so that you don’t forget the things your eyes have seen and so that they don’t slip from your mind as long as you live. Teach them to your children and your grandchildren.

Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Better to draw near in obedience than to offer the sacrifice as fools do, for they ignorantly do wrong.

Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you, avoiding irreverent, empty speech and contradictions from the “knowledge” that falsely bears that name.

Therefore, submit to God. But resist the Devil, and he will flee from you.