Lest strangers be filled with thy power, And thy labours in the house of a stranger,

Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee, Give reproof to the wise, and he loveth thee.

Not comely for a fool is a lip of excellency, Much less for a noble a lip of falsehood.

Luxury is not comely for a fool, Much less for a servant to rule among princes.

Love not sleep, lest thou become poor, Open thine eyes -- be satisfied with bread.

Lest thou learn his paths, And have received a snare to thy soul.

Lest Jehovah see, and it be evil in His eyes, And He hath turned from off him His anger.

Lest the hearer put thee to shame, And thine evil report turn not back.

Honey thou hast found -- eat thy sufficiency, Lest thou be satiated with it, and hast vomited it.

Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house, Lest he be satiated with thee, and have hated thee.

Answer not a fool according to his folly, Lest thou be like to him -- even thou.

Answer a fool according to his folly, Lest he be wise in his own eyes.

Add not to His words, lest He reason with thee, And thou hast been found false.

Lest I become satiated, and have denied, And have said, 'Who is Jehovah?' And lest I be poor, and have stolen, And have laid hold of the name of my God.

Accuse not a servant unto his lord, Lest he disesteem thee, and thou be found guilty.

Lest he drink, and forget the decree, And change the judgment of any of the sons of affliction.

Declare fat the heart of this people, And its ears declare heavy, And its eyes declare dazzled, Lest it see with its eyes, And with its ears hear, and its heart consider, And it hath turned back, and hath health.'

I, Jehovah, am its keeper, every moment I water it, Lest any lay a charge against it, Night and day I keep it!

And now, show not yourselves scorners, Lest strong be your bands, For a consumption, that is determined, I have heard, by the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, Is for all the land.

lest Hezekiah doth persuade you, saying, Jehovah doth deliver us. 'Have the gods of the nations delivered each his land out of the hand of the king of Asshur?

All the nations are as nothing before Him, Less than nothing and emptiness, They have been reckoned to Him.

And I declare to thee from that time, Before it cometh I have caused thee to hear, Lest thou say, 'Mine idol hath done them, And my graven image, And my molten image did command them.

Now they have been produced and not from that time, Yea, before the day, and thou hast not heard them, Lest thou say, 'Lo, I have known them.'

'And thou, thou dost gird up thy loins, and hast arisen, and spoken unto them all that I command thee: be not affrighted because of them, lest I affright thee before them.

Be circumcised to Jehovah, And turn aside the foreskins of your heart, O man of Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, Lest My fury go out as fire, and hath burned, And there is none quenching, Because of the evil of your doings.

Be instructed, O Jerusalem, Lest My soul be alienated from thee, Lest I make thee a desolation, a land not inhabited.

Chastise me, O Jehovah, only in judgment, Not in Thine anger, lest Thou make me small.

O house of David, thus said Jehovah: Decide ye judgment at morning, And deliver the plundered from the hand of the oppressor, Lest My fury go forth as fire, And hath burned, and none is quenching, Because of the evil of your doings.

And the king Zedekiah saith unto Jeremiah, 'I am fearing the Jews who have fallen unto the Chaldeans, lest they give me into their hand, and they have insulted me.'

And lest your heart be tender, And ye be afraid of the report that is heard in the land, And come in a year hath the report, And after it in a year the report, And violence is in the land, ruler against ruler;

Lo, in its being perfect it is not used for work, How much less, when fire hath eaten of it, And it is scorched, Hath it been used yet for work?

Lest I strip her naked. And have set her up as in the day of her birth, And have made her as a wilderness, And have set her as a dry land, And have put her to death with thirst.

Seek ye Jehovah, and live, Lest He prosper as fire against the house of Joseph, And it hath consumed, And there is no quencher for Beth-El.

for made gross was the heart of this people, and with the ears they heard heavily, and their eyes they did close, lest they might see with the eyes, and with the ears might hear, and with the heart understand, and turn back, and I might heal them.

And he said, No, lest -- gathering up the darnel -- ye root up with it the wheat,

which less, indeed, is than all the seeds, but when it may be grown, is greatest of the herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the heaven do come and rest in its branches.'

And Jesus having called near his disciples, said, 'I have compassion upon the multitude, because now three days they continue with me, and they have not what they may eat; and to let them away fasting I will not, lest they faint in the way.'

and the prudent answered, saying -- Lest there may not be sufficient for us and you, go ye rather unto those selling, and buy for yourselves.

command, then, the sepulchre to be made secure till the third day, lest his disciples, having come by night, may steal him away, and may say to the people, He rose from the dead, and the last deceit shall be worse than the first.'

that seeing they may see and not perceive, and hearing they may hear and not understand, lest they may turn, and the sins may be forgiven them.'

As a grain of mustard, which, whenever it may be sown on the earth, is less than any of the seeds that are on the earth;

And Jesus answering them, began to say, 'Take heed lest any one may lead you astray,

lest, having come suddenly, he may find you sleeping;

and they said, 'Not in the feast, lest there shall be a tumult of the people.'

And there were also women afar off beholding, among whom was also Mary the Magdalene, and Mary of James the less, and of Joses, and Salome,

and -- On hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou mayest dash against a stone thy foot.'

and those beside the way are those hearing, then cometh the Devil, and taketh up the word from their heart, lest having believed, they may be saved.

take heed, then, lest the light that is in thee be darkness;

for, as thou art going away with thy opponent to the ruler, in the way give diligence to be released from him, lest he may drag thee unto the judge, and the judge may deliver thee to the officer, and the officer may cast thee into prison;

'When thou mayest be called by any one to marriage-feasts, thou mayest not recline on the first couch, lest a more honourable than thou may have been called by him,

And he said also to him who did call him, 'When thou mayest make a dinner or a supper, be not calling thy friends, nor thy brethren, nor thy kindred, nor rich neighbours, lest they may also call thee again, and a recompense may come to thee;

lest that he having laid a foundation, and not being able to finish, all who are beholding may begin to mock him,

yet because this widow doth give me trouble, I will do her justice, lest, perpetually coming, she may plague me.'

'And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts may be weighed down with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and anxieties of life, and suddenly that day may come on you,

'Him it behoveth to increase, and me to become less;

After these things, Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said to him, 'Lo, thou hast become whole; sin no more, lest something worse may happen to thee.'

then the magistrate having gone away with officers, brought them without violence, for they were fearing the people, lest they should be stoned;

and if it be of God, ye are not able to overthrow it, lest perhaps also ye be found fighting against God.'

and a great dissension having come, the chief captain having been afraid lest Paul may be pulled to pieces by them, commanded the soldiery, having gone down, to take him by force out of the midst of them, and to bring him to the castle.

which having taken up, they were using helps, undergirding the ship, and fearing lest they may fall on the quicksand, having let down the mast -- so were borne on.

and fearing lest on rough places we may fall, out of the stern having cast four anchors, they were wishing day to come.

And the soldiers' counsel was that they should kill the prisoners, lest any one having swam out should escape,

for made gross was the heart of this people, and with the ears they heard heavily, and their eyes they did close, lest they may see with the eyes, and with the heart may understand, and be turned back, and I may heal them.

'The greater shall serve the less;'

for if God the natural branches did not spare -- lest perhaps He also shall not spare thee.

but see, lest this privilege of yours may become a stumbling-block to the infirm,

but I chastise my body, and bring it into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others -- I myself may become disapproved.

so that he who is thinking to stand -- let him observe, lest he fall.

and those that we think to be less honourable of the body, around these we put more abundant honour, and our unseemly things have seemliness more abundant,

so that, on the contrary, it is rather for you to forgive and to comfort, lest by over abundant sorrow such a one may be swallowed up;

avoiding this, lest any one may blame us in this abundance that is ministered by us,

lest if Macedonians may come with me, and find you unprepared, we -- we may be put to shame (that we say not -- ye) in this same confidence of boasting.

and I fear, lest, as the serpent did beguile Eve in his subtilty, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in the Christ;

for if I may wish to boast, I shall not be a fool, for truth I will say; but I forebear, lest any one in regard to me may think anything above what he doth see me, or doth hear anything of me;

and I most gladly will spend and be entirely spent for your souls, even if, more abundantly loving you, less I am loved.

for I fear lest, having come, not such as I wish I may find you, and I -- I may be found by you such as ye do not wish, lest there be strifes, envyings, wraths, revelries, evil-speakings, whisperings, puffings up, insurrections,

lest again having come, my God may humble me in regard to you, and I may bewail many of those having sinned before, and not having reformed concerning the uncleanness, and whoredom, and lasciviousness, that they did practise.

and I went up by revelation, and did submit to them the good news that I preach among the nations, and privately to those esteemed, lest in vain I might run or did run;

I am afraid of you, lest in vain I did labour toward you.

Brethren, if a man also may be overtaken in any trespass, ye who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness, considering thyself -- lest thou also may be tempted;

to me -- the less than the least of all the saints -- was given this grace, among the nations to proclaim good news -- the untraceable riches of the Christ,

The more eagerly, therefore, I did send him, that having seen him again ye may rejoice, and I may be the less sorrowful;

the fathers! vex not your children, lest they be discouraged.

because of this also, I, no longer forbearing, did send to know your faith, lest he who is tempting did tempt you, and in vain might be our labour.

not a new convert, lest having been puffed up he may fall to a judgment of the devil;

Because of this it behoveth us more abundantly to take heed to the things heard, lest we may glide aside,

Thou didst make him some little less than messengers, with glory and honour Thou didst crown him, and didst set him over the works of Thy hands,

and him who was made some little less than messengers we see -- Jesus -- because of the suffering of the death, with glory and honour having been crowned, that by the grace of God for every one he might taste of death.

See, brethren, lest there shall be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in the falling away from the living God,

We may fear, then, lest a promise being left of entering into His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short,

and apart from all controversy, the less by the better is blessed --

looking diligently over lest any one be failing of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up may give trouble, and through this many may be defiled;

lest any one be a fornicator, or a profane person, as Esau, who in exchange for one morsel of food did sell his birthright,

See, may ye not refuse him who is speaking, for if those did not escape who refused him who upon earth was divinely speaking -- much less we who do turn away from him who speaketh from heaven,

Ye, then, beloved, knowing before, take heed, lest, together with the error of the impious being led away, ye may fall from your own stedfastness,