84 Bible Verses About Warning Against Sin

And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.

For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.

But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the Lord exceedingly.

And the Lord said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;

And David was displeased, because the Lord had made a breach upon Uzza: wherefore that place is called Perez–uzza to this day.

And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.

Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.

And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore, behold, also his blood is required.

But they shall not go in to see when the holy things are covered, lest they die.

Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.

His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.

And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.

And the Lord said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.

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.

But God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses.

Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.

And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.

And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me;

Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.

For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.

The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?

Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be poured out upon this place, and shall not be quenched.

And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.

And he called the name of the place Taberah: because the fire of the Lord burnt among them.

Will he reserve his anger for ever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and done evil things as thou couldest.

But the soul that doeth ought 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.

The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.

Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.

Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.

For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.

And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the Lord? but it shall not prosper.

Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised;

And there came out a fire from the Lord, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.

But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.

And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.

Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the Lord.

A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

And the Lord heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying,

I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.

Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the Lord thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the Lord.

And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast lied, and hast not remembered me, nor laid it to thy heart? have not I held my peace even of old, and thou fearest me not?

Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?

And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth–hattaavah, ye provoked the Lord to wrath.

Thou shalt not do so unto the Lord thy God: for every abomination to the Lord, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.

Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?

How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways;

Ye have been rebellious against the Lord from the day that I knew you.

And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.

And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the Lord our God shall cut them off.

For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord: and because of these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee.

Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.

For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the Lord thy God.

And the Lord shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law:

The Lord shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart:

I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it.

The Lord shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.

And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.

And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the Lord shall lead thee.

I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:

Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.

And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the Lord shall be consumed.

With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.

And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to curse; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.

But that ye must turn away this day from following the Lord? and it will be, seeing ye rebel to day against the Lord, that to morrow he will be wroth with the whole congregation of Israel.

And the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.

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.

And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord: and the Lord delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years.

And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord; and the Lord delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.

Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make the Lord’s people to transgress.

When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:

Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did unto all Israel; and how they lay with the women that assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

O generation, see ye the word of the Lord. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?

And Jonathan spake good of David unto Saul his father, and said unto him, Let not the king sin against his servant, against David; because he hath not sinned against thee, and because his works have been to thee-ward very good:

Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the Lord, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.

Wherefore the Lord said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done of thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant.

And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.

And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the Lord above all that were before him.

For the Lord shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the Lord to anger.

And Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done.

God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.

Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.

And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.