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and said to him. "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down; for it is written, "He will give his angels charge over thee; Upon their hands they will bear thee up, Lest thou dash thy foot against a stone."

Verse ConceptsSafetySatan, As DeceiverSeductionThe If's Of SatanGod Carrying PeopleStriking RocksBeing Struck With StonesWho Is Jesus?Angels Looking After PeopleAngelic GuardianshipResisting Temptationjumping

"Do not give what is holy to the dogs, nor cast your pearls before swine; lest in turn they trample them under their feet, and then turn and attack you.

Verse ConceptsContemptdogsJewelsPrudenceAskingUngodlinessWasteWicked Described AsDespisersName CallingSwinePeople Torn To PiecesPigsUnfitting ThingsPetsHurt And Betrayalpork

For the heart of his people is made fat, Their ears are dull of hearing; Their eyes, too, have they closed, Lest some day their eyes should perceive, And their ears should hear, And their heart should understand and turn, And I should heal them.

Verse ConceptsDeafnessConversion, examples ofHardened HeartsEyes, Figurative UseEarsHardness Of HeartHeart, Fallen And RedeemedIndifferenceWilful IgnoranceInsensibilityDullnessSpiritual DeafnessNature Of The HeartTurning To GodRefusing To HearEvil EyesNot Seeing Spiritual ThingsBeing Without UnderstandingFeelingGod HealsUnhearing

"'No,' he answered, 'for fear lest while you are collecting the tares, you at the same time pull up the wheat.

Verse ConceptsPlucking Out

so that, "for all their looking they may not see, and for all their hearing, they may not understand, lest perchance they should turn and be pardoned.

Verse ConceptsUnbelief, Nature And Effects OfTurning To GodNot Seeing Spiritual ThingsBeing Without UnderstandingGod Not Forgiving

"Be ye watchful lest any one mislead you. Many will come in my name, saying, 'I am he,' and will mislead many.

Verse ConceptsFalse ChristsClaimsUnreliabilityBeing MisleadIn The Name Of ChristClaiming To Be The ChristMany Deceivers And Deceived

keep watch then, for you do not know when the master of the house is coming??n the evening, at midnight, at cockcrow, or in the morning??36 lest he should come unexpectedly and find you sleeping;

Verse ConceptsHourLast ThingsNightCrowsSleep, Warnings AgainstMidnightDaybreakIgnorance Of Christ’s ReturnAt DaybreakThe Time UnknownAttitudes While Waiting For Second Coming

"They will bear thee up in their hands, Lest thou dash thy food against a stone."

Verse ConceptsAngels HandsGod Carrying PeopleStriking RocksBeing Struck With Stones

"For as you go before the magistrate with your opponent do your utmost to get quit of him, lest he drag you before the judge, and the judge delivers you over to the officer, and the officer cast you into prison.

Verse ConceptsdisagreementsImprisonmentsJudgesOfficersReconciliation, Between BelieversLitigationHanding Over PeopleStress And Hard TimesReconciliationPurgatoryeffortjail

"When you are invited by any one to a marriage-feast, do not sit down in the best seat, lest a guest more distinguished than yourself has been invited, and your host come to you and say,

Verse ConceptsCelebritiesSocial FellowshipSeatsDo Not Be ProudGuest RoomsWaiting Till Marriageimportance

Also to his host who had invited him, he continued, saying. "When you are making a dinner-party or a supper, do not invite your friends, or your brothers, or your relatives, or your rich neighbors, lest it chance that they invite you in return, and a recompense be made by you.

Verse ConceptsSocial FellowshipSeparating From RelativesGood ReboundingSettling AccountsWealthy PeopleGiving Without Expecting ReturnFriendsFamily And FriendsGiving Backfriendliness

"Lest it happen that after he has laid the foundations and is unable to complete it, all who see it shall begin to jeer at him saying,

Verse ConceptsFoundations Of BuildingsUnable To Do Other ThingsFunFinishing Strongconstructionfinishing

"'yet because this woman annoys me I will give her justice, lest by her continual coming she wear me out.'

Verse ConceptsHeartlessnessTroubling IndividualsPersistenceperserverancehelptirednaggingvindicationharassment

Afterward Jesus found him in the Temple, and said to him. "Look! You have become well. Do not go on sinning, lest a worse thing befall you."

Verse ConceptsAfflicted SaintsDeliverance, Response ToSin, Accepting Forgiveness OfWarningFinding PeopleChrist In The TempleHealth AchievedWorse

"The Light is among you a little longer," answered Jesus. "Walk while you have the Light, lest darkness overtake you. He who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.

Verse ConceptsDarkness, As A Symbol Of SinGiving, Of TimeBeing A LightProphecies Said By JesusWorldly DilemmasThe Light Of ChristOvertaken By DarknessNot Knowing WhereChrist's Short Life

He hath blinded their eyes and make their hearts hard, Lest they should see with their eyes, perceive with their minds, And should turn, and I should heal them.

Verse ConceptsHardness Of HeartInsensibilityStiffnecked PeoplePeople ConvertedGod BlindingNot Seeing Spiritual ThingsBeing Without UnderstandingGod Hardening PeopleNo Healingbasketball

Nevertheless, even among the rulers many believed on him, but did not confess in on account of the Pharisees, for fear lest they be put out of the Synagogue.

Verse ConceptsSecret DiscipleshipCommitment, to Jesus ChristPersecution, Forms OfSynagogueFear Of ManDisfellowshipExcommunicationFearing Other PeopleThose Who Believed In ChristThose Who Did Not Tellconfessing

For David says of him. "I beheld the Lord always before my face; For he is at my right hand lest I be shaken.

Verse ConceptsGod With ChristNot MovedRight SidesPeople Shaking

"Beware, then, lest that spoken of in the prophets come upon you.

Verse Conceptsevil, warnings againstWritten In The Prophets

After hauling it aboard, they used ropes to undergird the ship, and since they were fearful lest they should be driven upon the Syrtes, they lowered the gear and lay to.

Verse ConceptsRopesSandShipsPropellingPutting Things Down

Then, fearing lest we should run ashore on the rocks, they threw out four anchors from the stern, and longed for day to come.

Verse ConceptsDawnAnchorsShipsFour Other ThingsBack Of Things

Now the soldiers were planning to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim off and so escape.

Verse ConceptsSwimmingNo EscapeAttempting To Kill Specific People

For this people's heart is grown obtuse, Their ears are heavy of hearing, Their eyes have they closed, Lest they should see with their eyes And hear with their ears, Lest they understand with their heart, And turn again, and heal them.

Verse ConceptsHardened HeartsLack Of DiscernmentHeart, Fallen And RedeemedIndifferenceInsensibilityDullnessNature Of The HeartRefusing To HearNot Seeing Spiritual ThingsBeing Without UnderstandingFeelingGod Heals

Do not refuse one another, unless it is only temporary and by mutual consent, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again, lest through your lack of self-control Satan begin to tempt you to sin.

Verse ConceptsAsh WednesdayAgreeing For GoodOne FleshSatan, As TempterSelf ControlSpiritual VitalityTemptation, ResistingTemptation, Sources OfSex Within MarriageAbstinenceBeing TemptedThe Devil Tempting PeoplesexFasting And PrayerSex Before MarriageSame Sex Marriagespousecouples

If I should choose to continue boasting I should not be foolish, for I should be speaking the truth. But I refrain, lest by the stupendous grandeur of the revelation any one should estimate me beyond what he sees in me, or hears from me.

Verse ConceptsFolly, Examples OfOverestimationFoolish PeopleSeeing PeoplePaul's Boasting

For I dread that perhaps, when I come, I may not find you to be such as I wish, and that I may be found by you such as you do not wish; I dread lest there should be quarrels, jealousy, tempers, party spirit, slandering, gossip, arrogance, tumults;

Verse ConceptsBackbitingArguingBitingTumultdisagreementsJealousyPride, Evil OfSectsArgumentsStrifeAbsenceSlanderArrogance, In The ChurchQuarrelsWhispering Of EvilDislikingDisorder In The ChurchAvoiding JealousyProud PeopleCompetitiongossiping

and lest when I come again my God may humble me before you, and lest I shall mourn for many those who have sinned before, and have not repented of the impurity and immorality and wantonness which they have practised.

Verse ConceptsLicentiousnessAdultery, Results OfDisappointments, Examples OfHumilitySanctification, Means And ResultsSelf IndulgenceSexual Sin, Nature OfLasciviousnessInsensibilityAvoid ImmoralitySexual Immorality

(I went up at that time in obedience to a revelation). And I laid before them the gospel which I am wont to preach among the Gentiles. I did this privately before those in authority, lest by any means I should be running, or should already have run, in vain.

Verse ConceptsGentiles, In NtAthleticsThe Christian RaceHeraldPrivacyPrizesResponseRunningInformation In SecretUseless LabourRaceFutile Faith

But if you are always biting and devouring one another, take heed lest you be utterly consumed one by another.

Verse ConceptsCriticism, amongst believersContention, CausesBackbitingBitingGrudgesDramaContentiousnessOppressorscriticismothers

Let us be on our guard, then, though there is a promise still standing of being admitted to his rest, lest any one of you should be found to have come short of it.

Verse ConceptsSabbath, In NtGod Is UnchangeableEntering LifeFear God!God Giving RestCauses of failure inMissing The Markfearless

Compare yourselves with him who endured such hostility against himself at the hands of sinners, lest you grow weary, fainting in your souls.

Verse ConceptsBad LanguagediscouragementMonotonySuffering, Encouragements InThoughtfulnessEndurance In DiscouragementDo Not Grow WearyLosing CourageMental Abusetired