Quotes about Warnings

If the children of Israel had heeded the Deuteronomic warnings, there would have been more milk and honey, and less misery and injustice, when they eventually crossed the Jordan.

In all these warnings against pleasure, truth is mixed with untruth. Insofar as they strengthen our responsibility, they are true; insofar as they undercut our joy, they are wrong.

It is good to grasp the one and not let the other slip from your hand. For he who fears God will follow both warnings.

There will be great earthquakes, famines, and pestilences in various places, along with fearful sights and great signs from heaven.

These things took place as examples to keep us from craving evil things as they did.

Now these things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come.

It describes him as a fallen creature, of his own nature inclined to evil, a creature needing not only a pardon, but a new heart, to make him fit for heaven. It shows him to be a corrupt being under every circumstance, when left to himself, corrupt after the loss of paradise, corrupt after the flood, corrupt when fenced in by divine laws and commandments, corrupt when the Son of God came down and visited him in the flesh, corrupt in the face of warnings, promises. miracles, judgments, mercies.

Throughout Scripture we read of warnings preceding disaster. Such alerts from God are part of His grace and provision.

Some of the strongest warnings about judgment in the Bible come from the lips of Jesus.

One of the most important things God wants to teach us from the Old Testament is how not to live.

The warnings given to the Hebrews against assimilating with the heathen were not more direct or explicit than are those forbidding Christians to conform to the spirit and customs of the ungodly.

the consistency of the Old Testament warnings for the covenant community formed a natural bridge to the New Testament warnings.