Thematic Bible: Warnings against

I will hear what God the Lord will say;

For He will speak peace to His people, to His godly ones;
But let them not turn back to folly.
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Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed that he does not fall. Verse Concepts

For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. Verse Concepts

Do not be wise in your own eyes;

Fear the Lord and turn away from evil.

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Answer a fool as his folly deserves,

That he not be wise in his own eyes.
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Do you see a man wise in his own eyes?

There is more hope for a fool than for him.

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Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes
And clever in their own sight!
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Be of the same mind toward one another; do not be haughty in mind, but associate with the lowly. Do not be wise in your own estimation.

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If anyone supposes that he knows anything, he has not yet known as he ought to know;

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If you will not listen to the voice of the Lord, but rebel against the command of the Lord, then the hand of the Lord will be against you, as it was against your fathers.

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But if they will not listen, then I will uproot that nation, uproot and destroy it,” declares the Lord. Verse Concepts

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.

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For,
“The one who desires life, to love and see good days,
Must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.
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Therefore, putting aside all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all

slander,

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And the tongue is a fire, the very world of iniquity; the tongue is set among our members as that which defiles the entire body, and sets on fire the course of our life, and is set on fire by

hell.

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Do not speak against one another, brethren. He who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law; but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge of it.

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Remind them to be subject to rulers, to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good deed, to malign no one, to be peaceable, gentle, showing every consideration for all men.

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.

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For,
“The one who desires life, to love and see good days,
Must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.
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Therefore, putting aside all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all

slander,

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And the tongue is a fire, the very world of iniquity; the tongue is set among our members as that which defiles the entire body, and sets on fire the course of our life, and is set on fire by

hell.

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Do not speak against one another, brethren. He who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law; but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge of it.

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Remind them to be subject to rulers, to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good deed, to malign no one, to be peaceable, gentle, showing every consideration for all men.

holding to a form of

godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these.

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“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier provisions of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness; but these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others. Verse Concepts

If you have died with Christ to the elementary principles of the world, why, as if you were living in the world, do you submit yourself to decrees, such as,

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Then the Lord said,
“Because this people draw near with their words
And honor Me with their lip service,
But they remove their hearts far from Me,
And their reverence for Me consists of tradition learned by rote,
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“Yet they seek Me day by day and delight to know My ways,
As a nation that has done righteousness
And has not forsaken the ordinance of their God.
They ask Me for just decisions,
They delight in the nearness of God.
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‘This people honors Me with their lips,
But their heart is far away from Me.
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“Bring your worthless offerings no longer,

Incense is an abomination to Me.

New moon and sabbath, the calling of assemblies—

I cannot endure iniquity and the solemn assembly.
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You observe days and months and seasons and years. I fear for you, that perhaps I have labored over you in vain.

“As for you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, and serve Him with a whole heart and a willing mind; for the Lord searches all hearts, and understands every intent of the thoughts. If you seek Him, He will let you find Him; but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever. Verse Concepts

If you forsake the Lord and serve foreign gods, then He will turn and do you harm and consume you after He has done good to you.”

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A man who loves wisdom makes his father glad,
But he who keeps company with harlots wastes his wealth.
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And behold, a woman comes to meet him,

Dressed as a harlot and cunning of heart.

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For her house sinks down to death
And her tracks lead to the dead;
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For the lips of an

adulteress drip honey

And smoother than oil is her speech;
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To keep you from the evil woman,
From the smooth tongue of the adulteress.
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I will not punish your daughters when they play the harlot
Or your brides when they commit adultery,
For the men themselves go apart with harlots
And offer sacrifices with temple prostitutes;
So the people without understanding are ruined.
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but when this son of yours came, who has devoured your

wealth with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.’

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Or do you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For He says, “The two shall become one flesh.” Verse Concepts

"So watch yourselves carefully, since you did not see any form on the day the LORD spoke to you at Horeb from the midst of the fire, so that you do not act corruptly and make a graven image for yourselves in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female, the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky, read more.
the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water below the earth. "And beware not to lift up your eyes to heaven and see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, and be drawn away and worship them and serve them, those which the LORD your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven.

I smote you and every work of your hands with blasting wind, mildew and hail; yet you did not come back to Me,’ declares the Lord. Verse Concepts

“Because I called and you refused,
I stretched out my hand and no one paid attention;
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And now, because you have done all these things,” declares the Lord, “and I spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you did not hear, and I called you but you did not answer, Verse Concepts

Then He began to denounce the cities in which most of His

miracles were done, because they did not repent.

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“But I gave you also cleanness of teeth in all your cities
And lack of bread in all your places,
Yet you have not returned to Me,” declares the Lord.
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Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed quickly, therefore the hearts of the sons of men among them are given fully to do evil. Verse Concepts

‘And if by these things you are not turned to Me, but act with hostility against Me,

Though the pride of Israel testifies against him,
Yet they have not returned to the Lord their God,
Nor have they sought Him, for all this.
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"Beware that you do not forget the LORD your God by not keeping His commandments and His ordinances and His statutes which I am commanding you today; otherwise, when you have eaten and are satisfied, and have built good houses and lived in them, and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and gold multiply, and all that you have multiplies, read more.
then your heart will become proud and you will forget the LORD your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

"Only fear the LORD and serve Him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things He has done for you. "But if you still do wickedly, both you and your king will be swept away."

“Why do you go around so much
Changing your way?
Also, you will be put to shame by Egypt
As you were put to shame by Assyria.
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What shall I do with you, O Ephraim?
What shall I do with you, O Judah?
For your loyalty is like a morning cloud
And like the dew which goes away early.
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As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming;

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Do not be carried away by varied and strange teachings; for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

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My son,

fear the Lord and the king;

Do not associate with those who are given to change,
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But he must ask in faith without any doubting, for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind. Verse Concepts

and especially those who

indulge the flesh in its corrupt desires and despise authority.

Daring, self-willed, they do not tremble when they revile angelic majesties, Verse Concepts

But the person who does anything defiantly, whether he is native or an alien, that one is blaspheming the Lord; and that person shall be cut off from among his people. Verse Concepts

“Woe to the one who quarrels with his Maker—
An earthenware vessel among the vessels of earth!
Will the clay say to the potter, ‘What are you doing?’
Or the thing you are making say, ‘He has no hands’?
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Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit.”

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But the prophet who speaks a word presumptuously in My name which I have not commanded him to speak, or which he speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.’ Verse Concepts

Nor let us try the Lord, as some of them did, and were destroyed by the serpents. Verse Concepts

“You shall not put the Lord your God to the test, as you tested Him at Massah. Verse Concepts

The plans of the diligent lead surely to advantage,
But everyone who is hasty comes surely to poverty.
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Do you see a man who is hasty in his words?
There is more hope for a fool than for him.
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Do not be hasty in word or impulsive in thought to bring up a matter in the presence of God. For God is in heaven and you are on the earth; therefore let your words be few.

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Also it is not good for a person to be without knowledge,
And he who hurries

his footsteps errs.

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So, since these are undeniable facts, you ought to keep calm and to do nothing rash. Verse Concepts

holding to a form of

godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these.

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“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier provisions of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness; but these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others. Verse Concepts

If you have died with Christ to the elementary principles of the world, why, as if you were living in the world, do you submit yourself to decrees, such as,

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Then the Lord said,
“Because this people draw near with their words
And honor Me with their lip service,
But they remove their hearts far from Me,
And their reverence for Me consists of tradition learned by rote,
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“Yet they seek Me day by day and delight to know My ways,
As a nation that has done righteousness
And has not forsaken the ordinance of their God.
They ask Me for just decisions,
They delight in the nearness of God.
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‘This people honors Me with their lips,
But their heart is far away from Me.
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“Bring your worthless offerings no longer,

Incense is an abomination to Me.

New moon and sabbath, the calling of assemblies—

I cannot endure iniquity and the solemn assembly.
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You observe days and months and seasons and years. I fear for you, that perhaps I have labored over you in vain.

Who can discern his errors? Acquit me of hidden faults.
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The sons of Israel did things secretly which were not right against the Lord their God. Moreover, they built for themselves high places in all their towns, from watchtower to fortified city. Verse Concepts

Woe to those who deeply hide their plans from the Lord,
And whose deeds are done in a dark place,
And they say, “Who sees us?” or “Who knows us?”
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Then He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are committing in the dark, each man in the room of his carved images? For they say, ‘The Lord does not see us; the Lord has forsaken the land.’” Verse Concepts

“In the dark they dig into houses,
They shut themselves up by day;
They do not know the light.
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for it is disgraceful even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret. Verse Concepts

You have placed our iniquities before You,
Our secret sins in the light of Your presence.
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You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, be on your guard so that you are not carried away by the error of unprincipled men and fall from your own steadfastness, Verse Concepts

The Lord shall never be willing to forgive him, but rather the anger of the Lord and His jealousy will

burn against that man, and every curse which is written in this book will rest on him, and the Lord will blot out his name from under heaven.

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See to it that you do not refuse Him who is speaking. For if those did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape who turn away from Him who warns from heaven.

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Give glory to the Lord your God,

Before He brings darkness
And before your feet stumble
On the dusky mountains,
And while you are hoping for light
He makes it into deep darkness,
And turns it into gloom.
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Then Jonah began to go through the city one day’s walk; and he cried out and said, “Yet forty days and Nineveh will be overthrown.” Verse Concepts

If you will not listen to the voice of the Lord, but rebel against the command of the Lord, then the hand of the Lord will be against you, as it was against your fathers.

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If you forsake the Lord and serve foreign gods, then He will turn and do you harm and consume you after He has done good to you.”

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Therefore, hear the word of the Lord, O scoffers,
Who rule this people who are in Jerusalem,

When they had brought them outside, one said, “Escape for your life! Do not look behind you, and do not stay anywhere in the valley; escape to the mountains, or you will be swept away.” Verse Concepts