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100 Bible Verses about Being Careful

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 749 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

1 John 4:1 ESV / 730 helpful votes

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

James 4:17 ESV / 685 helpful votes

So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

Colossians 2:8 ESV / 669 helpful votes

See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.

Ephesians 5:15-17 ESV / 619 helpful votes

Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

Galatians 5:16 ESV / 576 helpful votes

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

Revelation 13:8 ESV / 568 helpful votes

And all who dwell on earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slain.

Proverbs 12:26 ESV / 523 helpful votes

One who is righteous is a guide to his neighbor, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 445 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 363 helpful votes

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Philippians 4:6 ESV / 357 helpful votes

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

Philippians 4:3 ESV / 332 helpful votes

Yes, I ask you also, true companion, help these women, who have labored side by side with me in the gospel together with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.

Galatians 6:1 ESV / 318 helpful votes

Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 311 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Ephesians 5:15 ESV / 309 helpful votes

Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,

1 Corinthians 15:34 ESV / 305 helpful votes

Wake up from your drunken stupor, as is right, and do not go on sinning. For some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

John 3:16 ESV / 305 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Colossians 3:23 ESV / 303 helpful votes

Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,

Ephesians 5:2 ESV / 301 helpful votes

And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Ephesians 3:20 ESV / 300 helpful votes

Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us,

Deuteronomy 6:25 ESV / 300 helpful votes

And it will be righteousness for us, if we are careful to do all this commandment before the Lord our God, as he has commanded us.’

Matthew 7:12 ESV / 299 helpful votes

“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 294 helpful votes

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

Proverbs 4:26 ESV / 293 helpful votes

Ponder the path of your feet; then all your ways will be sure.

Joshua 1:8 ESV / 293 helpful votes

This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.

Matthew 12:36 ESV / 291 helpful votes

I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak,

James 1:26 ESV / 290 helpful votes

If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's religion is worthless.

Exodus 15:26 ESV / 288 helpful votes

Saying, “If you will diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, your healer.”

2 Timothy 4:2 ESV / 285 helpful votes

Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.

Deuteronomy 28:1 ESV / 284 helpful votes

“And if you faithfully obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

James 1:25 ESV / 283 helpful votes

But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.

Hebrews 3:12 ESV / 283 helpful votes

Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.

Joshua 22:5 ESV / 283 helpful votes

Only be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, to love the Lord your God, and to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments and to cling to him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.”

1 Timothy 4:2 ESV / 280 helpful votes

Through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared,

Colossians 4:6 ESV / 268 helpful votes

Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 263 helpful votes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Ephesians 6:17 ESV / 262 helpful votes

And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God,

Matthew 6:34 ESV / 262 helpful votes

“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

John 3:18 ESV / 253 helpful votes

Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.

1 Timothy 2:4 ESV / 252 helpful votes

Who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Philippians 4:6-7 ESV / 245 helpful votes

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 240 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Luke 6:38 ESV / 239 helpful votes

Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”

Acts 20:35 ESV / 235 helpful votes

In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

Galatians 6:7 ESV / 234 helpful votes

Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.

Proverbs 21:23 ESV / 219 helpful votes

Whoever keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps himself out of trouble.

Jeremiah 17:2 ESV / 209 helpful votes

While their children remember their altars and their Asherim, beside every green tree and on the high hills,

Proverbs 13:3 ESV / 209 helpful votes

Whoever guards his mouth preserves his life; he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

Matthew 6:1 ESV / 208 helpful votes

“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

Ephesians 5:15-16 ESV / 205 helpful votes

Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil.

Proverbs 4:1-26:28 ESV / 205 helpful votes

Hear, O sons, a father's instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight, for I give you good precepts; do not forsake my teaching. When I was a son with my father, tender, the only one in the sight of my mother, he taught me and said to me, “Let your heart hold fast my words; keep my commandments, and live. Get wisdom; get insight; do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth. ...

Ezekiel 36:27 ESV / 201 helpful votes

And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.

Ezekiel 20:19-20 ESV / 200 helpful votes

I am the Lord your God; walk in my statutes, and be careful to obey my rules, and keep my Sabbaths holy that they may be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am the Lord your God.’

Leviticus 26:3-4 ESV / 199 helpful votes

“If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them, then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

Jeremiah 17:7-8 ESV / 198 helpful votes

“Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord. He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit.”

Proverbs 4:20-21 ESV / 198 helpful votes

My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. Let them not escape from your sight; keep them within your heart.

John 1:13 ESV / 197 helpful votes

Who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

Deuteronomy 6:1-25:19 ESV / 196 helpful votes

“Now this is the commandment—the statutes and the rules—that the Lord your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it, that you may fear the Lord your God, you and your son and your son's son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be long. Hear therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do them, that it may go well with you, and that you may multiply greatly, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey. “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. ...

Exodus 15:1-26:37 ESV / 195 helpful votes

Then Moses and the people of Israel sang this song to the Lord, saying, “I will sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea. The Lord is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him, my father's God, and I will exalt him. The Lord is a man of war; the Lord is his name. “Pharaoh's chariots and his host he cast into the sea, and his chosen officers were sunk in the Red Sea. The floods covered them; they went down into the depths like a stone. ...

Joshua 1:3 ESV / 193 helpful votes

Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given to you, just as I promised to Moses.

Revelation 11:1-19 ESV / 185 helpful votes

Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told, “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there, but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months. And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.” These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. And if anyone would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, this is how he is doomed to be killed. ...

Acts 20:4 ESV / 171 helpful votes

Sopater the Berean, son of Pyrrhus, accompanied him; and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy; and the Asians, Tychicus and Trophimus.

Hebrews 3:2 ESV / 169 helpful votes

Who was faithful to him who appointed him, just as Moses also was faithful in all God's house.

Matthew 6:4 ESV / 168 helpful votes

So that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

Colossians 1:1-29 ESV / 154 helpful votes

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, ...

Proverbs 12:18 ESV / 153 helpful votes

There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

Proverbs 18:21 ESV / 147 helpful votes

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.

1 Corinthians 10:12 ESV / 146 helpful votes

Therefore let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall.

Proverbs 15:4 ESV / 145 helpful votes

A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it breaks the spirit.

Hebrews 1:3 ESV / 141 helpful votes

He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

Matthew 25:46 ESV / 141 helpful votes

And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

John 10:10 ESV / 140 helpful votes

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

Luke 1:37 ESV / 136 helpful votes

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

John 1:1 ESV / 133 helpful votes

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Exodus 3:14 ESV / 133 helpful votes

God said to Moses, “I am who I am.” And he said, “Say this to the people of Israel: ‘I am has sent me to you.’”

Matthew 12:34 ESV / 128 helpful votes

You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

Proverbs 28:27 ESV / 124 helpful votes

Whoever gives to the poor will not want, but he who hides his eyes will get many a curse.

Joshua 1:9 ESV / 123 helpful votes

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

Proverbs 15:1 ESV / 118 helpful votes

A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 116 helpful votes

Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.

John 8:44 ESV / 116 helpful votes

You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

John 8:12 ESV / 111 helpful votes

Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

Luke 6:45 ESV / 104 helpful votes

The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces evil, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.

Proverbs 29:20 ESV / 99 helpful votes

Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

Proverbs 10:19 ESV / 99 helpful votes

When words are many, transgression is not lacking, but whoever restrains his lips is prudent.

Psalm 19:14 ESV / 99 helpful votes

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.

Ephesians 5:16 ESV / 96 helpful votes

Making the best use of the time, because the days are evil.

Job 31:3 ESV / 93 helpful votes

Is not calamity for the unrighteous, and disaster for the workers of iniquity?

Job 31:1 ESV / 93 helpful votes

“I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I gaze at a virgin?

Proverbs 14:16 ESV / 85 helpful votes

One who is wise is cautious and turns away from evil, but a fool is reckless and careless.

Colossians 3:16 ESV / 73 helpful votes

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

Proverbs 22:3 ESV / 72 helpful votes

The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it.

1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV / 68 helpful votes

Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”

1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 64 helpful votes

Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

Colossians 2:1-23 ESV / 60 helpful votes

For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ. ...

1 Corinthians 15:52 ESV / 60 helpful votes

In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.

Matthew 4:4 ESV / 60 helpful votes

But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

Ephesians 5:8 ESV / 53 helpful votes

For at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light

Colossians 4:2 ESV / 49 helpful votes

Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving.

1 Corinthians 15:57 ESV / 47 helpful votes

But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

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