100 Bible Verses About Warning
Bible verses about Warning
Scripture resounds with warnings, not as instruments of fear, but as beacons of love guiding us toward divine wisdom. These passages are gentle nudges, sometimes firm rebukes, designed to awaken our hearts and minds to potential pitfalls along our spiritual journey. By understanding the warnings within the Bible, we cultivate discernment, allowing us to navigate life's complexities with grace and foresight. Embrace these verses as invitations to deeper reflection, prompting us to examine our choices and align our lives with God's unwavering truth. Let them serve as reminders that vigilance and mindful living are essential components of a flourishing faith.
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Proverbs 9:18 (KJV)
But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.
Heed the Signs: Bible Verses on Warning
And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice.
Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you:
In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard.
Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.
The Lord shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father’s house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.
And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt.
Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.
Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:
And Samuel said unto all Israel, Behold, I have hearkened unto your voice in all that ye said unto me, and have made a king over you.
For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.
Nevertheless a lad saw them, and told Absalom: but they went both of them away quickly, and came to a man’s house in Bahurim, which had a well in his court; whither they went down.
Send therefore now, and gather thy cattle, and all that thou hast in the field; for upon every man and beast which shall be found in the field, and shall not be brought home, the hail shall come down upon them, and they shall die.
And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.
Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.
And it came to pass, when the angel of the Lord spake these words unto all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept.
That the hypocrite reign not, lest the people be ensnared.
And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
And when the people complained, it displeased the Lord: and the Lord heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the Lord burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp.
Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man.
Where are they? where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the Lord of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.
(For the Lord thy God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the Lord thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth.
For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
And the frogs shall come up both on thee, and upon thy people, and upon all thy servants.
And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel?
Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God, in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights:
But murmured in their tents, and hearkened not unto the voice of the Lord.
Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you.
And the Lord shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.
And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the Lord, and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not;
But they presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and Moses, departed not out of the camp.
And it shall be, that whosoever shall go out of the doors of thy house into the street, his blood shall be upon his head, and we will be guiltless: and whosoever shall be with thee in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand be upon him.
And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off.
His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he hearkened not unto them; as the Lord had spoken unto Moses.
For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the Lord, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.
Therefore the Lord heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;
But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!
And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is come forth to make war with thee. And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded.
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the Lord’s.
But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.
Also the Lord was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not go in thither.
She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city,
The Lord of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.
And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.
Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.
For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, saith the Lord; and they shall come, and they shall set every one his throne at the entering of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof round about, and against all the cities of Judah.
And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.
But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands:
And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes.
Know for a certainty that the Lord your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the Lord your God hath given you.
By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, and the forest of his Carmel.
And he went and found his carcase cast in the way, and the ass and the lion standing by the carcase: the lion had not eaten the carcase, nor torn the ass.
Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness:
But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:
And the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven well favoured and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke.
And when he came, lo, Eli sat upon a seat by the wayside watching: for his heart trembled for the ark of God. And when the man came into the city, and told it, all the city cried out.
Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word:
If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:
Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.
Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.
Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, The Lord will deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them;
O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Beth–haccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction.
The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come.
The haters of the Lord should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever.
Israel was holiness unto the Lord, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the Lord.
I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
And had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods: but he kept not that which the Lord commanded.
Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof.
But if not, let fire come out from Abimelech, and devour the men of Shechem, and the house of Millo; and let fire come out from the men of Shechem, and from the house of Millo, and devour Abimelech.
And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the Lord will not hear you in that day.
For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people.
Behold, the days come, that I will cut off thine arm, and the arm of thy father’s house, that there shall not be an old man in thine house.
The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,
And Absalom, and all the people the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him.
And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the Lord thy God.
Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone.
After it a voice roareth: he thundereth with the voice of his excellency; and he will not stay them when his voice is heard.
But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.
Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.
For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.
That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.
Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.
Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity.
Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth.
And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast; and the hail smote every herb of the field, and brake every tree of the field.
And the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine following; for it shall be very grievous.
And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the substance that was in their possession, in the midst of all Israel:
Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:
Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.
And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.
And Pharaoh’s servants said unto him, How long shall this man be a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve the Lord their God: knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?
The Bible resounds with warnings – a testament to God's love and desire to protect us from harm, both physical and spiritual. These verses, spanning from the Old Testament prophets to the New Testament apostles, paint a vivid picture of the consequences of straying from His path. They caution against complacency, deceit, temptation, and the allure of worldly desires. Ignoring these warnings carries significant risk, leading to regret, broken relationships, and ultimately, separation from God. However, these warnings aren’t meant to instill fear, but rather to inspire wisdom and discernment. Reflecting upon these verses encourages us to examine our lives, identify potential pitfalls, and actively choose a path of righteousness and obedience. Heed the warnings, embrace God's guidance, and walk in the light of His truth, securing a future filled with peace and eternal life.