Thematic Bible: Warnings against
Thematic Bible
Backsliding » Warnings against
I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace to his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.
Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth, take heed lest he fall.
Conceit » Warnings against
For if a man thinketh himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.
Be not wise in thy own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
Woe to them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
Be of the same mind one towards another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.
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And if any man thinketh that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
Disobedience to God » Warnings against
But if ye will not obey the voice of the LORD, but rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall the hand of the LORD be against you, as it was against your fathers.
But if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation, saith the LORD.
Evil » Speech evil speaking » Warnings against
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil-speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
For he that will love life, and see good days, let him restrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:
Wherefore, laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil-speakings,
And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire from hell.
Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judgest the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work, To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, showing all meekness to all men.
Evil » Speaking » Warnings against
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil-speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
For he that will love life, and see good days, let him restrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:
Wherefore, laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil-speakings,
And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire from hell.
Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judgest the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work, To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, showing all meekness to all men.
Formalism » Warnings against
Having a form of godliness, but denying its power: from such turn away.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint, and anise, and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ye ought to have done, and not to leave the others undone.
Wherefore, if ye are dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear towards me is taught by the precept of men:
Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.
This people draw nigh to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination to me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot endure; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labor in vain.
Forsaking God » Warnings against
And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart, and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou shalt seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou shalt forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.
If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you good.
Harlots » Warnings against
He that loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance.
And behold, there met him a woman with the attire of a harlot, and subtil of heart.
For her house inclineth to death, and her paths to the dead.
For the lips of a strange woman drop as a honey-comb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
I will not punish your daughters when they are guilty of lewdness, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for they themselves are separated with prostitutes, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall.
But as soon as this thy son had come, who hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.
What? know ye not that he who is joined to a harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
Idolatry » Warnings against
Take ye therefore good heed to yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spoke to you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire; Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make to you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female, The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air, read more.
The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth: And lest thou shouldst lift up thy eyes to heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldst be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided to all nations under the whole heaven.
The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth: And lest thou shouldst lift up thy eyes to heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldst be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided to all nations under the whole heaven.
Impenitence » Warnings against
I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labors of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the LORD.
Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the LORD, and I spoke to you, rising early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not;
Then he began to upbraid the cities in which most of his mighty works had been done, because they repented not.
And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned to me, saith the LORD.
Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary to me;
And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this.
Ingratitude to God » Warnings against
Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day: Lest when thou hast eaten, and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt in them; And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold are increased, and all that thou hast is increased; read more.
Then thy heart shall be lifted up, and thou shalt forget the LORD thy God (who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;)
Then thy heart shall be lifted up, and thou shalt forget the LORD thy God (who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;)
Only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for consider how great things he hath done for you. But if ye shall still do wickedly, ye will be consumed, both ye and your king.
Instability » Warnings against
Why dost thou go about so much to change thy way? thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.
O Ephraim, what shall I do to thee? O Judah, what shall I do to thee? for your goodness is as the morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.
That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, by which they lie in wait to deceive:
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Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines: for it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied in them.
My son, fear thou the LORD and the king: and meddle not with them that are given to change:
But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
Presumption » Warnings against
But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, self-willed; they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
But the soul that doeth aught presumptuously, whether he be born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
Woe to him that contendeth with his Maker! Let the potsherd contend with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
Come now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy, and sell, and get gain:
But the prophet, who shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.
Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed by serpents.
Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.
Rashness » Warnings against
The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.
Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thy heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.
Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good; and he that hasteth with his feet sinneth.
Seeing then that these things cannot be contradicted, ye ought to be quiet, and to do nothing rashly.
Religion » Formalism » Warnings against
Having a form of godliness, but denying its power: from such turn away.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint, and anise, and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ye ought to have done, and not to leave the others undone.
Wherefore, if ye are dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear towards me is taught by the precept of men:
Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.
This people draw nigh to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination to me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot endure; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labor in vain.
Secret sins » Warnings against
Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults.
And the children of Israel did secretly things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built for themselves high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city.
Woe to them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?
Then said he to me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth.
In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the day-time: they know not the light.
For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret.
Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
Sin » Unpardonable, the » Warnings against
Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own steadfastness.
The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.
See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:
Give glory to the LORD your God, before he shall cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and while ye look for light, he shall turn it into the shades of death, and make it gross darkness.
And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
But if ye will not obey the voice of the LORD, but rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall the hand of the LORD be against you, as it was against your fathers.
If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you good.
Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life: look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain: escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.
Sin » Secret » Warnings against
Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults.
And the children of Israel did secretly things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built for themselves high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city.
Woe to them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?
Then said he to me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth.
In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the day-time: they know not the light.
For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret.
Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
Sins » Secret » Warnings against
Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults.
And the children of Israel did secretly things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built for themselves high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city.
Woe to them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?
Then said he to me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth.
In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the day-time: they know not the light.
For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret.
Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
Sleep » Spiritual » Warnings against
(According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) to this day.
Wherefore he saith, Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ will give thee light.
His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
And this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at evening, or at midnight, or at the cock-crowing, or in the morning: Lest coming suddenly, he should find you sleeping.
Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
Speaking, evil » Warnings against
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil-speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
For he that will love life, and see good days, let him restrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:
Wherefore, laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil-speakings,
And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire from hell.
Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judgest the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work, To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, showing all meekness to all men.
Spiritual » Sleep » Warnings against
(According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) to this day.
Wherefore he saith, Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ will give thee light.
His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
And this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at evening, or at midnight, or at the cock-crowing, or in the morning: Lest coming suddenly, he should find you sleeping.
Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
Stubbornness » Warnings against
Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near to thee.
Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;
And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not steadfast with God.
If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings; yes, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.
Unbelief » Warnings against
Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
Women » Harlots » Warnings against
He that loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance.
And behold, there met him a woman with the attire of a harlot, and subtil of heart.
For her house inclineth to death, and her paths to the dead.
For the lips of a strange woman drop as a honey-comb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
I will not punish your daughters when they are guilty of lewdness, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for they themselves are separated with prostitutes, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall.
But as soon as this thy son had come, who hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.
What? know ye not that he who is joined to a harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
Worldliness » Warnings against
Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
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And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
Teaching us, that denying ungodliness, and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and piously, in this present world;
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good and acceptable, and perfect will of God.
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For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man loveth the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
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Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
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