42 Bible Verses about limitations

not boasting beyond our measure, that is, in other men’s labors, but with the hope that as your faith grows, we will be, within our sphere, enlarged even more by you,

But we will not boast beyond our measure, but within the measure of the sphere which God apportioned to us as a measure, to reach even as far as you.

“Since his days are determined,
The number of his months is with You;
And his limits You have set so that he cannot pass.

“Can you discover the depths of God?
Can you discover the limits of the Almighty?

He who restrains his words has knowledge,
And he who has a cool spirit is a man of understanding.

When He set for the sea its boundary
So that the water would not transgress His command,
When He marked out the foundations of the earth;

I have seen a limit to all perfection;
Your commandment is exceedingly broad.

and He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation,

Great is our Lord and abundant in strength;
His understanding is infinite.

Wisdom strengthens a wise man more than ten rulers who are in a city.

You have established all the boundaries of the earth;
You have made summer and winter.

And I placed boundaries on it
And set a bolt and doors,

This I recall to my mind,
Therefore I have hope.

For He whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for He gives the Spirit without measure.

“For you will spread abroad to the right and to the left.
And your descendants will possess nations
And will resettle the desolate cities.

Who is there who speaks and it comes to pass,
Unless the Lord has commanded it?

Our skin has become as hot as an oven,
Because of the burning heat of famine.

Indeed, there is not a righteous man on earth who continually does good and who never sins.

The Lord is good to those who wait for Him,
To the person who seeks Him.

I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness, resulting in further lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, resulting in sanctification.

Their appearance is blacker than soot,
They are not recognized in the streets;
Their skin is shriveled on their bones,
It is withered, it has become like wood.

The Lord’s lovingkindnesses indeed never cease,
For His compassions never fail.

Moses said to the Lord, “The people cannot come up to Mount Sinai, for You warned us, saying, ‘Set bounds about the mountain and consecrate it.’”

“The breaker goes up before them;
They break out, pass through the gate and go out by it.
So their king goes on before them,
And the Lord at their head.”

and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.

It is good that he waits silently
For the salvation of the Lord.

They are new every morning;
Great is Your faithfulness.

Again and again they tempted God,
And pained the Holy One of Israel.

In the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which will never be destroyed, and that kingdom will not be left for another people; it will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, but it will itself endure forever.

And thus I aspired to preach the gospel, not where Christ was already named, so that I would not build on another man’s foundation;

But take care that this liberty of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak.

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.

“He has inscribed a circle on the surface of the waters
At the boundary of light and darkness.

Our fathers sinned, and are no more;
It is we who have borne their iniquities.

“Son of man, say to the leader of Tyre, ‘Thus says the Lord God,
“Because your heart is lifted up
And you have said, ‘I am a god,
I sit in the seat of gods
In the heart of the seas’;
Yet you are a man and not God,
Although you make your heart like the heart of God—

Mem.
O how I love Your law!
It is my meditation all the day.

Then Peter came and said to Him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me and I forgive him? Up to seven times?”