25 Bible Verses about Limitedness

Boast not thyself of to-morrow, For thou knowest not what a day bringeth forth.

Pilate, therefore, said to them, 'Take ye him -- ye -- and according to your law judge him;' the Jews, therefore, said to him, 'It is not lawful to us to put any one to death;'

and having cried, he said, Father Abraham, deal kindly with me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and may cool my tongue, because I am distressed in this flame.

Your new moons and your set seasons hath My soul hated, They have been upon me for a burden, I have been weary of bearing.

For he is not a Jew who is so outwardly, neither is circumcision that which is outward in flesh;

for if the blood of bulls, and goats, and ashes of an heifer, sprinkling those defiled, doth sanctify to the purifying of the flesh,

it behoveth me to be working the works of Him who sent me while it is day; night doth come, when no one is able to work: --

There is, then, now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit; for the law of the Spirit of the life in Christ Jesus did set me free from the law of the sin and of the death; for what the law was not able to do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, His own Son having sent in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, did condemn the sin in the flesh,read more.
that the righteousness of the law may be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

for in part we know, and in part we prophecy; and when that which is perfect may come, then that which is in part shall become useless. When I was a babe, as a babe I was speaking, as a babe I was thinking, as a babe I was reasoning, and when I have become a man, I have made useless the things of the babe;read more.
for we see now through a mirror obscurely, and then face to face; now I know in part, and then I shall fully know, as also I was known;

From men, Thy hand, O Jehovah, From men of the world, their portion is in life, And with Thy hidden things Thou fillest their belly, They are satisfied with sons; And have left their abundance to their sucklings.

And Abraham said, Child, remember that thou did receive -- thou -- thy good things in thy life, and Lazarus in like manner the evil things, and now he is comforted, and thou art distressed;

Is there not a warfare to man on earth? And as the days of an hireling his days?

If determined are his days, The number of his months are with Thee, His limit Thou hast made, And he passeth not over;

Is there not a warfare to man on earth? And as the days of an hireling his days? As a servant desireth the shadow, And as a hireling expecteth his wage, So I have been caused to inherit months of vanity, And nights of misery they numbered to me.read more.
If I lay down then I said, 'When do I rise!' And evening hath been measured, And I have been full of tossings till dawn. Clothed hath been my flesh with worms, And a clod of dust, My skin hath been shrivelled and is loathsome, My days swifter than a weaving machine, And they are consumed without hope. Remember Thou that my life is a breath, Mine eye turneth not back to see good. The eye of my beholder beholdeth me not. Thine eyes are upon me -- and I am not. Consumed hath been a cloud, and it goeth, So he who is going down to Sheol cometh not up. He turneth not again to his house, Nor doth his place discern him again. Also I -- I withhold not my mouth -- I speak in the distress of my spirit, I talk in the bitterness of my soul. A sea -monster am I, or a dragon, That thou settest over me a guard? When I said, 'My bed doth comfort me,' He taketh away in my talking my couch. And thou hast affrighted me with dreams, And from visions thou terrifiest me,

And also to Lot, who is going with Abram, there hath been sheep and oxen and tents; and the land hath not suffered them to dwell together, for their substance hath been much, and they have not been able to dwell together; and there is a strife between those feeding Abram's cattle and those feeding Lot's cattle; and the Canaanite and the Perizzite are then dwelling in the land.read more.
And Abram saith unto Lot, 'Let there not, I pray thee, be strife between me and thee, and between my shepherds and thy shepherds, for we are men -- brethren. Is not all the land before thee? be parted, I pray thee, from me; if to the left, then I to the right; and if to the right, then I to the left.'

And David goeth on, he and six hundred men who are with him, and they come in unto the brook of Besor, and those left have stood still, and David pursueth, he and four hundred men, (and two hundred men stand still who have been too faint to pass over the brook of Besor),

Not in the might of the horse doth He delight, Not in the legs of a man is He pleased.

Not in the might of the horse doth He delight, Not in the legs of a man is He pleased. Jehovah is pleased with those fearing Him, With those waiting for His kindness.

Shallum son of Jabesh hath reigned in the thirty and ninth year of Uzziah king of Judah, and he reigneth a month of days in Samaria; and go up doth Menahem son of Gadi from Tirzah and cometh in to Samaria, and smiteth Shallum son of Jabesh in Samaria, and putteth him to death, and reigneth in his stead. And the rest of the matters of Shallum, and his conspiracy that he made, lo, they are written on the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel.

And I say, so long time as the heir is a babe, he differeth nothing from a servant -- being lord of all, but is under tutors and stewards till the time appointed of the father, so also we, when we were babes, under the elements of the world were in servitude,

this is the thing which Jehovah hath commanded concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, To those good in their eyes let them be for wives; only, to a family of the tribe of their fathers let them be for wives;

And there came, at that time, not a little stir about the way, for a certain one, Demetrius by name, a worker in silver, making silver sanctuaries of Artemis, was bringing to the artificers gain not a little, whom, having brought in a crowd together, and those who did work about such things, he said, 'Men, ye know that by this work we have our wealth;read more.
and ye see and hear, that not only at Ephesus, but almost in all Asia, this Paul, having persuaded, did turn away a great multitude, saying, that they are not gods who are made by hands; and not only is this department in danger for us of coming into disregard, but also, that of the great goddess Artemis the temple is to be reckoned for nothing, and also her greatness is about to be brought down, whom all Asia and the world doth worship.' And they having heard, and having become full of wrath, were crying out, saying, 'Great is the Artemis of the Ephesians!'

Thou hast shewed thyself weak in a day of adversity, Straitened is thy power,

And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly -- as to babes in Christ; with milk I fed you, and not with meat, for ye were not yet able, but not even yet are ye now able,

He knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.