Beware therefore, lest that come on you which is spoken in the prophets:
Parallel translations
- KJV Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets;
- BSB Watch out, then, that what was spoken by the prophets does not happen to you:
- NKJV Beware therefore, lest what has been spoken in the prophets come upon you:
- NASB Therefore, see that the thing spoken of in the Prophets does not come upon you:
- NLT Be careful! Don’t let the prophets’ words apply to you. For they said,
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Quick answer
Paul warns his hearers not to let the prophets' words of judgment fall on them. He urges them to heed the gospel.
Overview
Having offered salvation, Paul issues a solemn warning against unbelief, lest the threats of the prophets be realized in them. The shift from invitation to warning shows the seriousness of the decision before them. Receiving Christ brings forgiveness; rejecting him invites the judgment Scripture foretells.
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Cross-references · 8
- Mal 4:1“For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
- Heb 12:25See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,
- Heb 3:12Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;
- Hab 1:5“Look among the nations, watch, and wonder marvelously; for I am working a work in your days, which you will not believe though it is told you.
- Mal 3:2“But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire, and like launderer’s soap;
- Heb 2:3how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation — which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard;
- Matt 3:9–12Don’t think to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father,’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.
- Isa 29:14therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men will perish, and the understanding of their prudent men will be hidden.”
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