Heedfulness
23 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
17 sections
- Commanded
- Necessary in Conduct
- Necessary in Giving Judgment
- Necessary in How we Hear
- Necessary in Keeping God's Commandments
- Necessary in Speech
- Necessary in the Care of the Soul
- Necessary in the House and Worship of God
- Necessary in What we Hear
- Necessary in Worldly Company
- Necessary: Against False Christs, and False Prophets
- Necessary: Against False Teachers
- Necessary: Against Idolatry
- Necessary: Against Presumption
- Necessary: Against Sin
- Necessary: Against Unbelief
- Necessary: Promises To
Commanded
- Exodus 23:13 Pay close attention to everything I have said to you. You must not invoke the names of other gods; they must not be heard on your lips.
- Proverbs 4:25–27 Let your eyes look forward; fix your gaze straight ahead. …
Necessary in Conduct
- Ephesians 5:15 Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,
Necessary in Giving Judgment
- 1 Chronicles 19:6–7 When the Ammonites realized that they had become a stench to David, Hanun and the Ammonites sent a thousand talents of silver to hire for themselves chariots and horsemen from Aram-naharaim, Aram-maacah, and Zobah. …
Necessary in How we Hear
- Luke 8:18 Pay attention, therefore, to how you listen. Whoever has will be given more, but whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has will be taken away from him.”
Necessary in Keeping God's Commandments
- Joshua 22:5 But be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you: to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, to keep His commandments, to hold fast to Him, and to serve Him with all …
Necessary in Speech
- Proverbs 13:3 He who guards his mouth protects his life, but the one who opens his lips invites his own ruin.
- James 1:19 My beloved brothers, understand this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger,
Necessary in the Care of the Soul
- Deuteronomy 4:9 Only be on your guard and diligently watch yourselves, so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen, and so that they do not slip from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and grandchildren.
Necessary in the House and Worship of God
- Ecclesiastes 5:1 Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Draw near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong.
Necessary in What we Hear
- Mark 4:24 He went on to say, “Pay attention to what you hear. With the measure you use, it will be measured to you, and even more will be added to you.
Necessary in Worldly Company
- Psalm 39:1 I said, “I will watch my ways so that I will not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth with a muzzle as long as the wicked are present.”
- Colossians 4:5 Act wisely toward outsiders, redeeming the time.
Necessary: Against False Christs, and False Prophets
- Matthew 24:4–5 Jesus answered, “See to it that no one deceives you. …
- Matthew 24:23–24 At that time, if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘There He is!’ do not believe it. …
- Colossians 2:8 See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, which are based on human tradition and the spiritual forces of the world rather than on Christ.
- 2 Peter 3:16–17 He writes this way in all his letters, speaking in them about such matters. Some parts of his letters are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction. …
Necessary: Against False Teachers
- Colossians 2:8 See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, which are based on human tradition and the spiritual forces of the world rather than on Christ.
Necessary: Against Idolatry
- Deuteronomy 4:15–16 So since you saw no form of any kind on the day the LORD spoke to you out of the fire at Horeb, be careful …
Necessary: Against Presumption
- 1 Corinthians 10:12 So the one who thinks he is standing firm should be careful not to fall.
Necessary: Against Sin
- Hebrews 12:15–16 See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God, and that no root of bitterness springs up to cause trouble and defile many. …
Necessary: Against Unbelief
- Hebrews 3:12 See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God.
Necessary: Promises To
- 1 Kings 2:4 and so that the LORD may fulfill His promise to me: ‘If your descendants take heed to walk faithfully before Me with all their heart and soul, you will never fail to have a man on the throne of Israel.’
- 1 Chronicles 22:13 Then you will succeed, if you carefully follow the statutes and ordinances that the LORD commanded Moses for Israel. Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or discouraged.
Related topics
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.