10 Bible Verses about Instinct
Most Relevant Verses
But these persons, like irrational animals born [only with] natural [instincts] for capture and killing, blaspheming {about things} they do not understand, in their destruction will also be destroyed,
There [are] four small things on the earth, and they [are] {exceedingly wise}:
An ox knows its owner and a donkey the manger of its master. Israel does not know; my people do not understand.
Even [the] stork in heaven knows its appointed time, and [the] turtledove, and [the] swallow, and [the] song bird, they observe the time of their coming. But my people do not know the ordinance of Yahweh.
But these persons blaspheme all that they do not understand, and all that they understand by instinct like the irrational animals, by these [things] they are being destroyed.
These are the ones who cause divisions, worldly, not having the Spirit.
It has no chief, officer, or ruler. In the summer, it prepares its food; in the harvest, it gathers its sustenance.
The ants [are] a people [who are] not strong, yet they prepare their food in the summer;
From Thematic Bible
Instinct » Of animals
An ox knows its owner and a donkey the manger of its master. Israel does not know; my people do not understand.
Instinct » Of birds
Even [the] stork in heaven knows its appointed time, and [the] turtledove, and [the] swallow, and [the] song bird, they observe the time of their coming. But my people do not know the ordinance of Yahweh.