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Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.

Verse ConceptsScattering The PeoplesPeople Remembering

They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.

Verse ConceptsSustaining ProvidenceStriking RocksBeing Struck With StonesHurthurting

Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.

Verse Conceptselection, responsibilities ofCalf worshipMoses, Significance OfPlaguesGod Might Kill His PeopleAction Lest God Be Angry

For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity.

Verse ConceptsIniquity, Believer's Relation ToWicked RulersRighteous, TheSceptreRestwickedness

Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked device; lest they exalt themselves. Selah.

Verse ConceptsPlansEvil DevicesPsalm InterjectionsGod's PlanGods PlanGod's Plan For Uswickedness

Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.

Verse ConceptsFace Of GodPitsGoing Down To The PitGod HidingState Of The DeadPits As A Term For GravesDepression

Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.

Verse ConceptsThoughtFicklenessLife By WisdomPaths Of Lifeuncertainty

Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:

Verse ConceptsReputationVigourEthicsLosing Someonedignity

Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.

Verse ConceptsReproofDespisersScoffersHating The RighteousHatehaterscriticismrebukingmockers

Lest the LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.

Verse ConceptsGod Will No More Be Angry

Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.

Verse ConceptsLitigationRashnessAttorneyLawsuitsHasteShaming PeopleHurt And Betrayalstriving

Lest he that heareth it put thee to shame, and thine infamy turn not away.

Verse ConceptsBad NewsHurt And Betrayal

Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.

Verse ConceptsExcessSelf DenialDietsOverweightObesityHoneyMore Than EnoughCandyovereating

Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.

Verse ConceptsFalse WisdomAnsweringFoolsanswers

Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.

Verse ConceptsIrreverenceDenying GodProfaning God's NameShortagesWho Is God?The poorBeing Contentdenial

Accuse not a servant unto his master, lest he curse thee, and thou be found guilty.

Verse ConceptsInjuryServanthood, In SocietySlanderSlavescriticismgossipingaccusations

Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.

Verse ConceptsOppression, Nature OfKings, How They Should ActForgetting Things

Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.

Verse ConceptsConvincingHardened HeartsHardness Of HeartHeart, Fallen And RedeemedRepentance, Importance OfSpiritual DeafnessShutting SecurelyDefective VisionBeing Without UnderstandingFeelingNo HealingUnhearing

Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.

Verse ConceptsChainsMockeryRejection Of God, Results OfRidicule, Objects OfDestructionTying Upmockers

Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, The LORD will deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

Verse ConceptsDeliverance, Source OfGod Saves The NeedySalvation By Other Things

I have even from the beginning declared it to thee; before it came to pass I shewed it thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.

Verse ConceptsSculptureWoodGod Speaking Of OldGod Opposes IdolatryEverything Happening For A Reasonimage

They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them.

Verse ConceptsNow

Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound thee before them.

Verse ConceptsReadinessReady To SpeakSpeaking The Word God Gives

Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

Verse ConceptsForeskinsCircumcision, spiritualFire Of God's AngerTrue CircumcisionLake Of Fire

Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.

Verse ConceptsJerusalem, Significance OfThreatsSeparation From GodLand Becoming Empty

O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.

Verse ConceptsCorrectionChastisementNothingLet Not God Be AngryGod Requite Them!Judgementwrath

O house of David, thus saith the LORD; Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

Verse ConceptsMorningFire Of God's AngerSaving PeopleEvery MorningRobbing People

Therefore hear now, I pray thee, O my lord the king: let my supplication, I pray thee, be accepted before thee; that thou cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.

Verse ConceptsPossibility Of Death

And Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews that are fallen to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me.

Verse ConceptsJews, TheFear Of ManFearing Other PeopleTurning Against Men

And lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land; a rumour shall both come one year, and after that in another year shall come a rumour, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.

Verse ConceptsViolence In The EarthdiscouragementCivil StrifeRumoursFear, Of FutureResisting DiscouragementThose Not Fearingrumors

Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.

Verse ConceptsBabiesGod Stripping PeopleDry PlacesGod Might Kill His PeopleNew BornDeserts Used Figuratively

Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel.

Verse ConceptsSeeking LifeNot Extinguishing

And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time 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

Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.

Verse ConceptsAgreementDiscorddisagreementsLawyersJudgesOfficersAttorneyLawsuitsLitigationQuarrelsDebtorsAgreeingHanding Over PeopleImprisonmentsCourt SessionsPeople Accusing PeopleMisunderstandingsMaking Peace With EnemiesReconciliationConflictResolving Conflictjail

Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.

Verse ConceptsContemptdogsJewelsPrudenceAskingUngodlinessWasteWicked Described AsDespisersName CallingSwinePeople Torn To PiecesPigsUnfitting ThingsPetsHurt And Betrayalpork

For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, 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

But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.

Verse ConceptsPlucking Out

Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.

Verse ConceptsCompassion, Of Christethics, socialHeart, DivineMercy, Of Jesus ChristPoverty, Attitudes TowardsReceptivenessUnselfishnessJesus Christ, Love OfFaintingChrist SummoningChrist With His DisciplesTired In ActivityFastingDiscipleshipNervousnessFeeding The Poor

Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money: that take, and give unto them for me and thee.

Verse ConceptsForeknowledgeethics, socialCivic DutiesLoyaltyMiracles Of ChristCitizens, Christian DutiesCoinsDivine Power Over NatureCitizenshipDo Not HinderFishtaxes

But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.

Verse ConceptsBuying and sellingOil For LampsShortage Other Than Food

But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people.

Verse ConceptsDisorder Among PeopleAt The Same Time

Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first.

Verse ConceptsThe Disciples ActionsChrist Would RiseWorse

And he spake to his disciples, that a small ship should wait on him because of the multitude, lest they should throng him.

Verse ConceptsSeafaringBoatsPressingDisadvantages Of CrowdsDisciples' MovementsPreparing To Travel

That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.

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

And Jesus answering them began to say, Take heed lest any man deceive you:

Verse ConceptsLast Days

But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.

Verse ConceptsDisorder Among People

And in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.

Verse ConceptsAngels HandsGod Carrying PeopleStriking RocksBeing Struck With Stones

When thou goest with thine adversary to the magistrate, as thou art in the way, give diligence that thou mayest be delivered from him; lest he hale thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and the officer cast thee into prison.

Verse ConceptsdisagreementsImprisonmentsJudgesOfficersReconciliation, Between BelieversLitigationHanding Over PeopleStress And Hard TimesReconciliationPurgatoryeffortjail

When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room; lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him;

Verse ConceptsCelebritiesSocial FellowshipSeatsDo Not Be ProudGuest RoomsWaiting Till Marriageimportance

Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee.

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

Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him,

Verse ConceptsFoundations Of BuildingsUnable To Do Other ThingsFunFinishing Strongconstructionfinishing

For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.

Verse ConceptsFive PeopleWarning IndividualsDeath Of A Family MemberSiblingsGodly ManFamily Deathtestifyinglazarus

Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.

Verse ConceptsHeartlessnessTroubling IndividualsPersistenceperserverancehelptirednaggingvindicationharassment

And said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.

Verse ConceptsReadinessBeing TemptedGet Up!Resisting TemptationPraying

Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.

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

Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.

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

Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest they should 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

Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover.

Verse ConceptsPassover lambExclusivenessGovernorsHigh Priest, In NtPalacesReligionArmies, RomanRoyal Houses

Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned.

Verse ConceptsPublic OpinionGentle WordsFear Of StoningFearing Other People

But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.

Verse ConceptsGod, Sovereignty OfStriving With GodOther People Of GodWork EthicSuccess And Hard Workmovement

Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets;

Verse Conceptsevil, warnings againstWritten In The Prophets

And when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain, fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces of them, commanded the soldiers to go down, and to take him by force from among them, and to bring him into the castle.

Verse ConceptsCommanderCommands, in NTCastlesSecurityFear, Of DeathPersecution Of The Apostle PaulPeople Torn To PiecesChiliarchs

Which when they had taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship; and, fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, strake sail, and so were driven.

Verse ConceptsRopesSandShipsPropellingPutting Things Down

Then fearing lest we should have fallen upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day.

Verse ConceptsDawnAnchorsShipsFour Other ThingsBack Of Things

And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.

Verse ConceptsSwimmingNo EscapeAttempting To Kill Specific People

For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

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

For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.

Verse ConceptsBranches, Figurative UsesNot Sparing

For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.

Verse ConceptsFulnessConceit, Description OfMysteryFullness Of The KingdomFalse WisdomGod Hardening PeopleSubdivisionsIsrael HardenedGentilesBlindnessIgnorance of GodTrust In RelationshipsPatience In RelationshipsBuilding RelationshipsWaiting Till Marriageignorance

Lest any should say that I had baptized in mine own name.

Verse ConceptsChristian Baptism

Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.

Verse ConceptsAbstinenceGiving, Of OneselfSelf DisciplineSelf DenialThe Saints, Without OffenceBrotherly LoveAdaptabilityDo Not HinderEating Meatpork

If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.

Verse ConceptsCoveting, prohibition ofControlling PeopleSuffering For The GospelAvoid Being HinderedEnduringHindrances

And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

Verse ConceptsJoy, Of The ChurchOptimism

Yet have I sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this behalf; that, as I said, ye may be ready:

Verse ConceptsUseless LabourPeople Sending PeoplePaul's Boasting

Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting.

For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me.

Verse ConceptsFolly, Examples OfOverestimationFoolish PeopleSeeing PeoplePaul's Boasting