9 Bible Verses about Adding to the Bible

Most Relevant Verses

Revelation 22:18-19

I testify and warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book [its predictions, consolations, and admonitions]: if anyone adds [anything] to them, God will add to him the plagues (afflictions, calamities) which are written in this book; and if anyone takes away from or distorts the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away [from that one] his share from the tree of life and from the holy city (new Jerusalem), which are written in this book.

Deuteronomy 4:2

You shall not add to the word which I am commanding you, nor take away from it, so that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I am commanding you.

Proverbs 30:6


Do not add to His words,
Or He will reprove you, and you will be found a liar.

Proverbs 30:5-6


Every word of God is tested and refined [like silver];
He is a shield to those who trust and take refuge in Him.

Do not add to His words,
Or He will reprove you, and you will be found a liar.

Deuteronomy 12:32

“Everything I command you, you shall be careful to do it; you shall not add to it nor take away from it.

Mark 7:13

so you nullify the [authority of the] word of God [acting as if it did not apply] because of your tradition which you have handed down [through the elders]. And you do many things such as that.”

Genesis 3:1-4

Now the serpent was more crafty (subtle, skilled in deceit) than any living creature of the field which the Lord God had made. And the serpent (Satan) said to the woman, “Can it really be that God has said, ‘You shall not eat from any tree of the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees of the garden, except the fruit from the tree which is in the middle of the garden. God said, ‘You shall not eat from it nor touch it, otherwise you will die.’” read more.
But the serpent said to the woman, “You certainly will not die!

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