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and said, "If you are God's Son, throw yourself down; for it is written, "'To His angels He will give orders concerning thee, and on their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any moment thou shouldst strike 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

But Jesus called His disciples to Him and said, "My heart yearns over this mass of people, for it is now the third day that they have been with me and they have nothing to eat. I am unwilling to send them away hungry, lest they should faint on the road."

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

"However, lest we cause them to sin, go and throw a hook into the Lake, and take the first fish that comes up. When you open its mouth, you will find a shekel in it: bring that coin and give it to them for yourself and me."

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

But they said, "Not during the Festival, lest there be a riot among the people."

Verse ConceptsDisorder Among PeopleAt The Same Time

that "'They may look and look but not see, and listen and listen but not understand, lest perchance they should return and be pardoned.'"

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

and 'On their hands they shall bear thee up, Lest at any moment thou shouldst strike thy foot against a stone.'"

Verse ConceptsAngels HandsGod Carrying PeopleStriking RocksBeing Struck With Stones

And this woman, daughter of Abraham as she is, whom Satan had bound for no less than eighteen years, was she not to be loosed from this chain because it is the Sabbath day?"

Verse ConceptsdaughtersCripplesevil, origins ofPainRescueSatan, Defeat OfSatan, Kingdom OfBindingSatan, Work Of15 To 20 YearsChildren Of AbrahamOn The SabbathJesus Healing On Sabbath

"When any one invites you to a wedding banquet, do not take the best seat, lest perhaps some more honoured guest than you may have been asked,

Verse ConceptsCelebritiesSocial FellowshipSeatsDo Not Be ProudGuest RoomsWaiting Till Marriageimportance

Also to His host, who had invited Him, He said, "When you give a breakfast or a dinner, do not invite your friends or brothers or relatives or rich neighbours, lest perhaps they should invite you in return and a requital be made you.

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

lest perhaps, when he has laid the foundation and is unable to finish, all who see it shall begin to jeer at him,

Verse ConceptsFoundations Of BuildingsUnable To Do Other ThingsFunFinishing Strongconstructionfinishing

For I have five brothers. Let him earnestly warn them, lest they also come to this place of torment.'

Verse ConceptsFive PeopleWarning IndividualsDeath Of A Family MemberSiblingsGodly ManFamily Deathtestifyinglazarus

Bethany was near Jerusalem, the distance being a little less than two miles;

Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, Lineardistance

"He has blinded their eyes and made their minds callous, lest they should see with their eyes and 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

But if it is really from God, you will be powerless to put them down--lest perhaps you find yourselves to be actually fighting against God."

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

Beware, then, lest what is spoken in the Prophets should come true of you:

Verse Conceptsevil, warnings againstWritten In The Prophets

Or has not the potter rightful power over the clay to make out of the same lump one vessel for more honourable and another for less honourable uses?

Verse ConceptsCraftsmenPower Of God, DescribedReprobatesPeople Have HonourPurposeBeauty And Self Worthpotmoldhonour

If your brother is pained by the food you are eating, your conduct is no longer controlled by love. Take care lest, by the food you eat, you lead to ruin a man for whom Christ died.

Verse ConceptsLove, Abuse OfLove, Nature OfSubstitutionTemptation, Avoiding CausingAgape LoveThe Effect Of Christ's DeathUnlovingSibling LoveLove Shown By Deeds

Do not refuse one another, unless perhaps it is just for a time and by mutual consent, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer and may then associate again; lest the Adversary begin to tempt you because of your deficiency in self-control.

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

but I hit hard and straight at my own body and lead it off into slavery, lest possibly, after I have been a herald to others, I should myself be rejected.

Verse ConceptsLicentiousnessCastawaysBodyAsceticism, TypesLustMortificationSelf DisciplineConduct, ProperDietsMinisters, Should BeBeating OneselfMaking SlavesslaveryRacetrainingmyself

Were the foot to say, "Because I am not a hand I am not a part of the body," that would not make it any the less a part of the body.

Verse ConceptsWorking TogetherGoing To ChurchScriptureThe BodyServing The ChurchBeing Uniqueconnectionbelongingimportance

Or were the ear to say, "Because I am not an eye, I am not a part of the body," that would not make it any the less a part of the body.

Verse ConceptsThe Bodybelongingimportance

and those which we deem less honorable we clothe with more abundant honor; and so our ungraceful parts come to have a more abundant grace, while our graceful parts have everything they need.

Verse ConceptsPeople Have HonourRespectSelf WorthSelf EsteemTreating OthersPositive ThinkingTaking Care Of Your BodyThe BodyRespecting Your Bodydignitychildbearinghonourimportance

We endeavour to give people no cause for stumbling in anything, lest the work we are doing should fall into discredit.

Verse ConceptsBlamelessness, In Christian LivingOffenceDo Not HinderMinistrynegativity

If however I should choose to boast, I should not be a fool for so doing, for I should be speaking the truth. But I forbear, lest any one should be led to estimate me more highly than what his own eyes attest, or more highly than what he hears from my lips.

Verse ConceptsFolly, Examples OfOverestimationFoolish PeopleSeeing PeoplePaul's Boasting

If I love you so intensely, am I the less to be loved? Be that as it may: I was not a burden to you. But being by no means scrupulous, I entrapped you, they say!

Verse ConceptsShrewdnessTrickeryThose Who DeceivedOverloadDeception

I went up in obedience to a revelation of God's will; and I explained to them the Good News which I proclaim among the Gentiles. To the leaders of the Church this explanation was made in private, 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 perpetually snarling and snapping at one another, beware lest you are destroyed by one another.

Verse ConceptsCriticism, amongst believersContention, CausesBackbitingBitingGrudgesDramaContentiousnessOppressorscriticismothers

I am therefore all the more eager to send him, in the hope that when you see him again you may be glad and I may have the less sorrow.

Verse ConceptsRejoicing In Reliefanxious

Therefore let us be on our guard lest perhaps, while He still leaves us a promise of being admitted to His rest, some one of you should be found to have fallen short of it.

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

Be carefully on your guard lest there be any one who falls back from the grace of God; lest any root bearing bitter fruit spring up and cause trouble among you, and through it the whole brotherhood be defiled;

Verse ConceptsBeing BitterDefilement, Objects OfGrace, And Christian LifeResentment, Against PeopleRootsSanctification, Means And ResultsConflict ResolutionPeople Being PollutedThe Grace Given To MenDefilementCauses of failure inBitternesscancer

lest there be a fornicator, or an ungodly person like Esau, who, in return for a single meal, parted with the birthright which belonged to him.

Verse ConceptsLearning From The PastBrothersHeirsPast, TheFornicationRightsSexual Sin, Nature OfUngodlinessWasteBirthrightsAvoid ImmoralitySexual Immorality

Be careful not to refuse to listen to Him who is speaking to you. For if they of old did not escape unpunished when they refused to listen to him who spoke on earth, much less shall we escape who turn a deaf ear to Him who now speaks from Heaven.

Verse ConceptsFaith, As A Body Of BeliefsComplacencyGospel, Responses ToImpenitence, Results OfSalvation, Necessity And Basis OfWatchfulness, Of BelieversRejection Of God's CallEscaping EvilNo EscapeGod Speaks From Heaven

Do not cry out in condemnation of one another, brethren, lest you come under judgement. I tell you that the Judge is standing at the door.

Verse ConceptsGod, As JudgeCriticism, amongst believersFaultsMinistry, In The ChurchResentment, Against PeopleJesus Christ, JudgeImminenceGrumblingNot JudgingDo Not GrumbleComplaining