Haller's Concordance: LEST
- But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of paradise, God hath commanded us that we should not eat; and that we should not touch it, lest perhaps we die. Gen. 3:3
- And he said: Behold Adam is become as one of us, knowing good and evil: now therefore lest perhaps he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever. Gen. 3:22
- That from the very woof thread unto the shoe latchet, I will not take of any things that are thine, lest thou say: I have enriched Abram. Gen. 14:23
- And when it was morning, the angels pressed him, saying: Arise, take thy wife, and the two daughters which thou hast: lest thou also perish in the wickedness of the city. Gen. 19:15
- And they brought him forth, and set him without the city: and there they spoke to him, saying: Save thy life: look not back, neither stay thou in all the country about: but save thy self in the mountain, lest thou be also consumed. Gen. 19:17
- Because thy servant hath found grace before thee, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewn to me, in saving my life, and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil seize me, and I die. Gen. 19:19
- And when he was asked by the men of that place, concerning his wife, he answered: She is my sister: for he was afraid to confess that she was his wife, thinking lest perhaps they would kill him because of her beauty. Gen. 26:7
- And calling for him, he said: It is evident she is thy wife: why didst thou feign her to be thy sister? He answered: I feared lest I should die for her sake. Gen. 26:9
- If my father should feel me, and perceive it, I fear lest he will think I would have mocked him, and I shall bring upon me a curse instead of a blessing. Gen. 27:12
- Jacob answered: That I departed unknown to thee, it was for fear lest thou wouldst take away thy daughters by force. Gen. 31:31
- Deliver me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am greatly afraid of him; lest perhaps he come, and kill the mother with the children. Gen. 32:11
- He knowing that the children should not be his, when he went in to his brother's wife, spilled his seed upon the ground, lest children should be born in his brother's name. Gen. 38:9
- Wherefore Juda said to Thamar his daughter-in-law: Remain a widow in thy father's house, till Sela my son grow up: for he was afraid lest he also might die, as his brethren did. She went her way, and dwelt in her father's house. Gen. 38:11
- When Juda saw her, he thought she was a harlot: for she had covered her face, lest she should be known. Gen. 38:15
- Whilst Benjamin was kept at home by Jacob, who said to his brethren: Lest perhaps he take any harm in the journey. Gen. 42:4
- And Juda said to his father: Send the boy with me, that we may set forward, and may live: lest both we and our children perish. Gen. 43:8
- And take with you double money, and carry back what you found in your sacks, lest perhaps it was done by mistake. Gen. 43:12
- For I cannot return to my father without the boy, lest I be a witness of the calamity that will oppress my father. Gen. 44:34
- And there I will feed thee, (for there are yet five years of famine remaining) lest both thou perish, and thy house, and all things that thou hast. Gen. 45:11
- Why therefore shall we die before thy eyes? we will be thine, both we and our lands: buy us to be the king's servants, and give us seed, lest for want of tillers the land be turned into a wilderness. Gen. 47:19
- Now he being dead, his brethren were afraid, and talked one with another: Lest perhaps he should remember the wrong he suffered, and requite us all the evil that we did to him. Gen. 50:15
- Come let us wisely oppress them, lest they multiply: and if any war shall rise against us, join with our enemies, and having overcome us, depart out of the land. Ex. 1:10
- And they said: The God of the Hebrews hath called us, to go three days' journey into the wilderness, and to sacrifice to the Lord our God; lest a pestilence or the sword fall upon us. Ex. 5:3
- And when Pharao had sent out the people, the Lord led them not by the way of the land of the Philistines, which is near; thinking lest perhaps they would repent, if they should see wars arise against them, and would return into Egypt. Ex. 13:17
- He said unto him: Go down, and charge the people; lest they should have a mind to pass the limits to see the Lord, and a very great multitude of them should perish. Ex. 19:21
- The priests also that come to the Lord, let them be sanctified, lest he strike them. Ex. 19:22
- And the Lord said to him: Go, get thee down; and thou shalt come up, thou and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the people pass the limits, nor come up to the Lord, lest he kill them. Ex. 19:24
- Saying to Moses: Speak thou to us, and we will hear: let not the Lord speak to us, lest we die. Ex. 20:19
- Thou shalt not go up by steps unto my altar, lest thy nakedness be discovered. Ex. 20:26
- I will not cast them out from thy face in one year; lest the land be brought into a wilderness, and the beasts multiply against thee. Ex. 23:29
- Let them not dwell in thy land, lest perhaps they make thee sin against me, if thou serve their gods; which, undoubtedly, will be a scandal to thee. Ex. 23:33
- And Aaron and his sons shall use them when they shall go into the tabernacle of the testimony, or when they approach to the altar to minister in the sanctuary, lest being guilty of iniquity they die. It shall be a law for ever to Aaron, and to his seed after him. Ex. 28:43
- Lest perhaps they die. It shall be an everlasting law to him, and to his seed by successions. Ex. 30:21
- That thou mayst enter into the land that floweth with milk and honey. For I will not go up with thee, because thou art a stiffnecked people; lest I destroy thee in the way. Ex. 33:3
- Make no covenant with the men of those countries; lest, when they have committed fornication with their gods, and have adored their idols, some one call thee to eat of the things sacrificed. Ex. 34:15
- Neither shalt thou take of their daughters a wife for thy son, lest after they themselves have committed fornication, they make thy sons also to commit fornication with their gods. Ex. 34:16
- Being fastened to the girdle, and strongly coupled with rings, which a violet fillet joined, lest they should flag loose, and be moved one from the other, as the Lord commanded Moses. Ex. 39:19
- Day and night shall you remain in the tabernacle observing the watches of the Lord, lest you die. For so it hath been commanded me. Lev. 8:35
- And Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and Ithamar, his sons: Uncover not your heads, and rend not your garments, lest perhaps you die, and indignation come upon all the congregation. Let your brethren, and all the house of Israel, bewail the burning which the Lord has kindled. Lev. 10:6
- You shall not drink wine nor any thing that may make drunk, thou nor thy sons, when you enter into the tabernacle of the testimony, lest you die. Because it is an everlasting precept; through your generations: Lev. 10:9
- Do not defile your souls, nor touch aught thereof, lest you be unclean, Lev. 11:43
- And he shall command, that they carry forth all things out of the house, before he go into it, and see whether it have the leprosy, lest all things become unclean that are in the house. And afterwards he shall go in to view the leprosy of the house. Lev. 14:36
- And he commanded him, saying: Speak to Aaron thy brother, that he enter not at all into the sanctuary, which is within the veil before the propitiatory, with which the ark is covered, lest he die, (for I will appear in a cloud over the oracle), Lev. 16:2
- Beware then, lest in like manner, it vomit you also out, if you do the like things: as it vomited out the nation that was before you. Lev. 18:28
- Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart: But reprove him openly, lest thou incur sin through him. Lev. 19:17
- Make not thy daughter a common strumpet, lest the land be defiled, and filled with wickedness. Lev. 19:29
- Keep my laws and my judgments, and do them: lest the land into which you are to enter to dwell therein, vomit you also out. Lev. 20:22
- Neither shall he go out of the holy places, lest he defile the sanctuary of the Lord: because the oil of the holy unction of his God is upon him. I am the Lord. Lev. 21:12
- Lest perhaps they bear the iniquity of their trespass, when they shall have eaten the sanctified things. I am the Lord who sanctify them. Lev. 22:16
- But the Levites shall pitch their tents round about the tabernacle, lest there come indignation upon the multitude of the children of Israel, and they shall keep watch, and guard the tabernacle of the testimony. Num. 1:53
- And when Aaron and his sons have wrapped up the sanctuary and the vessels thereof at the removing of the camp, then shall the sons of Caath enter in to carry the things wrapped up: and they shall not touch the vessels of the sanctuary, lest they die. These are the burdens of the sons of Caath: in the tabernacle of the covenant: Num. 4:15
- Whether it be man or woman, cast ye them out of the camp, lest they defile it when I shall dwell with you, Num. 5:3
- And have delivered them for a gift to Aaron and his sons out of the midst of the people, to serve me for Israel in the tabernacle of the covenant, and to pray for them, lest there should be a plague among the people, if they should presume to approach unto my sanctuary. Num. 8:19
- Would God that we had died in Egypt: and would God we may die in this vast wilderness, and that the Lord may not bring us into this land, lest we fall by the sword, and our wives and children be led away captives. Is it not better to return into Egypt? Num. 14:3
- Go not up, for the Lord is not with you: lest you fall before your enemies. Num. 14:42
- He said to the multitude: Depart from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be involved in their sins. Num. 16:26
- But all Israel, that was standing round about, fled at the cry of them that were perishing: saying: Lest perhaps the earth swallow us up also. Num. 16:34
- That the children of Israel might have for the time to come wherewith they should be admonished, that no stranger or any one that is not of the seed of Aaron should come near to offer incense to the Lord, lest he should suffer as Core suffered, and all his congregation, according as the Lord spoke to Moses. Num. 16:40
- And the Lord said to Moses: Carry back the rod of Aaron into the tabernacle of the testimony, that it may be kept there for a token of the rebellious children of Israel, and that their complaints may cease from me lest they die. Num. 17:10
- And the Levites shall watch to do thy commands, and about all the works of the tabernacle: only they shall not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary nor the altar, lest both they die, and you also perish with them. Num. 18:3
- Watch ye in the charge of the sanctuary, and in the ministry of the altar: lest indignation rise upon the children of Israel. Num. 18:5
- And you shall not sin in this point, by reserving the choicest and fat things to yourselves, lest you profane the oblations of the children of Israel, and die. Num. 18:32
- And may go out and in before them, and may lead them out, or bring them in: lest the people of the Lord be as sheep without a shepherd. Num. 27:17
- Lest the possession of the children of Israel be mingled from tribe to tribe. For all men shall marry wives of their own tribe and kindred: Num. 36:7
- The Lord said to me: Say to them: Go not up, and fight not, for I am not with you: lest you fall before your enemies. Dt. 1:42
- Lest perhaps being deceived you might make you a graven similitude, or image of male or female, Dt. 4:16
- Lest perhaps lifting up thy eyes to heaven, thou see the sun and the moon, and all the stars of heaven, and being deceived by error thou adore and serve them, which the Lord thy God created for the service of all the nations, that are under heaven. Dt. 4:19
- Beware lest thou ever forget the covenant of the Lord thy God, which he hath made with thee: and make to thyself a graven likeness of those things which the Lord hath forbid to be made: Dt. 4:23
- Take heed diligently lest thou forget the Lord, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and shalt serve him only, and thou shalt swear by his name. Dt. 6:13
- Because the Lord thy God is a jealous God in the midst of thee: lest at any time the wrath of the Lord thy God be kindled against thee, and take thee away from the face of the earth. Dt. 6:15
- Thou shalt consume all the people, which the Lord thy God will deliver to thee. Thy eye shall not spare them, neither shalt thou serve their gods, lest they be thy ruin. Dt. 7:16
- He will consume these nations in thy sight by little and little and by degrees. Thou wilt not be able to destroy them altogether: lest perhaps the beasts of the earth should increase upon thee. Dt. 7:22
- Their graven things thou shalt burn with fire: thou shalt not covet the silver and gold of which they are made, neither shalt thou take to thee any thing thereof, lest thou offend, because it is an abomination to the Lord thy God. Dt. 7:25
- Neither shalt thou bring any thing of the idol into thy house, lest thou become an anathema, like it. Thou shalt detest it as dung, and shalt utterly abhor it as uncleanness and filth, because it is an anathema. Dt. 7:26
- Take heed, and beware lest at any time thou forget the Lord thy God, and neglect his commandments and judgments and ceremonies, which I command thee this day: Dt. 8:11
- Lest after thou hast eaten and art filled, hast built goodly houses, and dwelt in them, Dt. 8:12
- Lest thou shouldst say in thy heart: My own might, and the strength of my own hand have achieved all these things for me. Dt. 8:17
- Lest perhaps the inhabitants of the land, out of which thou hast brought us, say: The Lord could not bring them into the land that he promised them, and he hated them: therefore he brought them out, that he might kill them in the wilderness, Dt. 9:28
- Beware lest perhaps your heart be deceived, and you depart from the Lord, and serve strange gods, and adore them: Dt. 11:16
- Beware lest thou offer thy holocausts in every place that thou shalt see: Dt. 12:13
- Beware lest thou imitate them, after they are destroyed at thy coming in, and lest thou seek after their ceremonies, saying: As these nations have worshipped their gods, so will I also worship. Dt. 12:30
- Beware lest perhaps a wicked thought steal in upon thee, and thou say in thy heart: The seventh year of remission draweth nigh; and thou turn away thy eyes from thy poor brother, denying to lend him that which he asketh: lest he cry against thee to the Lord, and it become a sin unto thee. Dt. 15:9
- When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God shall give thee, beware lest thou have a mind to imitate the abominations of those nations. Dt. 18:9
- As thou desiredst of the Lord thy God in Horeb, when the assembly was gathered together, and saidst: Let me not hear any more the voice of the Lord my God, neither let me see any more this exceeding great fire, lest I die. Dt. 18:16
- Lest perhaps the next kinsman of him whose blood was shed, pushed on by his grief should pursue, and apprehend him, if the way be too long, and take away the life of him who is not guilty of death, because he is proved to have had no hatred before against him that was slain. Dt. 19:6
- That innocent blood may not be shed in the midst of the land which the Lord thy God will give thee to possess, lest thou be guilty of blood. Dt. 19:10
- And the captains shall proclaim through every band in the hearing of the army: What man is there, that hath built a new house, and hath not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it. Dt. 20:5
- What man is there, that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not as yet made it to be common, whereof all men may eat? let him go, and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man execute his office. Dt. 20:6
- What man is there, that hath espoused a wife, and not taken her? let him go, and return to his house, lest he die in the war, and another man take her. Dt. 20:7
- After these things are declared they shall add the rest, and shall speak to the people: What man is there that is fearful, and faint hearted? let him go, and return to his house, lest he make the hearts of his brethren to fear, as he himself is possessed with fear. Dt. 20:8
- Lest they teach you to do all the abominations which they have done to their gods: and you should sin against the Lord your God. Dt. 20:18
- When thou buildest a new house, thou shalt make a battlement to the roof round about: lest blood be shed in thy house, and thou be guilty, if any one slip, and fall down headlong. Dt. 22:8
- Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest both the seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of the vineyard, be sanctified together. Dt. 22:9
- That which thou art eased of: (for the Lord thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thy enemies to thee:) and let thy camp be holy, and let no uncleanness appear therein, lest he go away from thee. Dt. 23:14
- The former husband cannot take her again to wife: because she is defiled, and is become abominable before the Lord: lest thou cause thy land to sin, which the Lord thy God shall give thee to possess. Dt. 24:4
- But thou shalt pay him the price of his labour the same day, before the going down of the sun, because he is poor, and with it maintaineth his life: lest he cry against thee to the Lord, and it be reputed to thee for a sin. Dt. 24:15
- Yet so, that they exceed not the number of forty: lest thy brother depart shamefully torn before thy eyes. Dt. 25:3
- Lest perhaps there should be among you a man or a woman, a family or a tribe, whose heart is turned away this day from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of those nations: and there should be among you a root bringing forth gall and bitterness. Dt. 29:18
- But for the wrath of the enemies I have deferred it: lest perhaps their enemies might be proud, and should say: Our mighty hand, and not the Lord, hath done all these things. Dt. 32:27
- And she said to them: Get ye up to the mountains, lest perhaps they meet you as they return: and there lie ye hid three days, till they come back, and so you shall go on your way. Josu. 2:16
- But beware ye lest you touch ought of those things that are forbidden, and you be guilty of transgression, and all the camp of Israel be under sin, and be troubled. Josu. 6:18
- But this we will do to them: Let their lives be saved, lest the wrath of the Lord be stirred up against us, if we should be forsworn: Josu. 9:20
- Lest after that you are come in among the Gentiles, who will remain among you, you should swear by the name of their gods, and serve them, and adore them: Josu. 23:7
- And he said to all the people: Behold this stone shall be a testimony unto you, that it hath heard all the words of the Lord, which he hath spoken to you: lest perhaps hereafter you will deny it, and lie to the Lord your God. Josu. 24:27
- And the Lord said to Gedeon: The people that are with thee are many, and Madian shall not be delivered into their hands: lest Israel should glory against me, and say: I was delivered by my own strength. Judg. 7:2
- And he called hastily to his armourbearer, and said to him: Draw thy sword, and kill me: lest it should be said that I was slain by a woman. He did as he was commanded, and slew him. Judg. 9:54
- And the children of Dan said to him: See thou say no more to us, lest men enraged come upon thee, and thou perish with all thy house. Judg. 18:25
- And her mother in law said to her: It is better for thee, my daughter, to go out to reap with his maids, lest in another man's field some one may resist thee. Ruth 2:22
- So she slept at his feet till the night was going off. And she arose before men could know one another, and Booz said: Beware lest any man know that thou camest hither. Ruth 3:14
- And have taken to wife Ruth, the Moabitess, the wife of Mahalon, to raise up the name of the deceased in his inheritance lest his name be cut off, from among his family and his brethren and his people. You, I say, are witnesses of this thing. Ruth 4:10
- Take courage, and behave like men, ye Philistines: lest you come to be servants to the Hebrews, as they have served you: take courage and fight. 1 Ki. 4:9
- And when they were come to the land of Suph, Saul said to the servant that was with him: Come, let us return, lest perhaps my father forget the asses, and be concerned for us. 1 Ki. 9:5
- Now there was no smith to be found in all the land of Israel, for the Philistines had taken this precaution, lest the Hebrews should make them swords or spears. 1 Ki. 13:19
- And Saul said to the Cinite: Go, depart, and get ye down from Amalec: lest I destroy thee with him. For thou hast shewn kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. And the Cinite departed from the midst of Amalec. 1 Ki. 15:6
- And he swore again to David. And David said: Thy father certainly knoweth that I have found grace in thy sight, and he will say: Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved. But truly as the Lord liveth, and thy soul liveth, there is but one step (as I may say) between me and death. 1 Ki. 20:3
- And David saved neither man nor woman, neither brought he any of them to Geth, saying: Lest they should speak against us. So did David, and such was his proceeding all the days that he dwelt in the country of the Philistines. 1 Ki. 27:11
- But the princes of the Philistines were angry with him, and they said to him: Let this man return, and abide in his place, which thou hast appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest he be an adversary to us, when we shall begin to fight: for how can he otherwise appease his master, but with our heads? 1 Ki. 29:4
- Then Saul said to his armourbearer: Draw thy sword, and kill me: lest these uncircumcised come, and slay me, and mock at me. And his armourbearer would not: for he was struck with exceeding great fear. Then Saul took his sword, and fell upon it. 1 Ki. 31:4
- Tell it not in Geth, publish it not in the streets of Ascalon: lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph. 2 Ki. 1:20
- And again Abner said to Asael: Go off, and do not follow me, lest I be obliged to stab thee to the ground, and I shall not be able to hold up my face to Joab thy brother. 2 Ki. 2:22
- Now therefore gather thou the rest of the people together, and besiege the city and take it: lest when the city shall be wasted by me, the victory be ascribed to my name. 2 Ki. 12:28
- And David said to his servants, that were with him in Jerusalem: Arise and let us flee: for we shall not escape else from the face of Absalom: make haste to go out, lest he come and overtake us, and bring ruin upon us, and smite the city with the edge of the sword. 2 Ki. 15:14
- Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying: Tarry not this night in the plains of the wilderness, but without delay pass over: lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that is with him. 2 Ki. 17:16
- And David said to Abisai: Now will Seba the son of Bochri do us more harm than did Absalom: take thou therefore the servants of thy lord, and pursue after him, lest he find fenced cities, and escape us. 2 Ki. 20:6
- And Abisai the son of Sarvia rescued him, and striking the Philistine killed him. Then David's men swore unto him saying: Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, lest thou put out the lamp of Israel. 2 Ki. 21:17
- And at the seventh time: Behold a little cloud arose out of the sea like a man's foot. And he said: Go up, and say to Achab: Prepare thy chariot, and go down, lest the rain prevent thee. 3 Ki. 18:44
- And they said to him: Behold, there are with thy servants, fifty strong men, that can go, and seek thy master, lest, perhaps, the spirit of the Lord, hath taken him up and cast him upon some mountain, or into some valley. And he said: Do not send. 4 Ki. 2:16
- And was returned to be healed in Jezrahel of his wounds; for the Syrians had wounded him, when he fought with Hazael, king of Syria. And Jehu said: If it please you, let no man go forth or flee out of the city, lest he go, and tell in Jezrahel. 4 Ki. 9:15
- And Saul said to his armourbearer: Draw thy sword, and kill me: lest these uncircumcised come, and mock me. But his armourbearer would not, for he was struck with fear: so Saul took his sword, and fell upon it. 1 Par. 10:4
- Lest as the Lord at first struck us, because you were not present, the same should now also come to pass, by our doing some thing against the law. 1 Par. 15:13
- And when he spoke these things, he answered him: Art thou the king's counsellor? be quiet, lest I kill thee. And the prophet departing, said: I know that God is minded to kill thee, because thou hast done this evil, and moreover hast not hearkened to my counsel. 2 Par. 25:16
- And they said to them: You shall not bring in the captives hither, lest we sin against the Lord. Why will you add to our sins, and heap up upon our former offences? for the sin is great, and the fierce anger of the Lord hangeth over Israel. 2 Par. 28:13
- He gathered together a very great multitude, and they stopped up all the springs, and the brook, that ran through the midst of the land, saying: Lest the kings of the Assyrians should come, and find abundance of water. 2 Par. 32:4
- But he sent messengers to him, saying: What have I to do with thee, O king of Juda? I come not against thee this day, but I fight against another house, to which God hath commanded me to go in haste: forbear to do against God, who is with me, lest he kill thee. 2 Par. 35:21
- See that you be not negligent in executing this, lest by little and little the evil grow to the hurt of the kings. 1 Esd. 4:22
- I also have commanded what must be done by those ancients of the Jews, that the house of God may be built, to wit, that of the king's chest, that is, of the tribute that is paid out of the country beyond the river, the charges be diligently given to those men, lest the work be hindered. 1 Esd. 6:8
- All that belongeth to the rites of the God of heaven, let it be given diligently in the house of the God of heaven: lest his wrath should be enkindled against the realm of the king, and of his sons. 1 Esd. 7:23
- And I sent messengers to them, saying: I am doing a great work, and I cannot come down, lest it be neglected whilst I come, and go down to you. 2 Esd. 6:3
- And when her husband heard it bleating, he said: Take heed, lest perhaps it be stolen: restore ye it to its owners, for it is not lawful for us either to eat or to touch any thing that cometh by theft. Tob. 2:21
- But lest I should make thee uneasy, I am Azarias the son of the great Ananias. Tob. 5:18
- Now I am afraid, lest the same thing should happen to me also: and whereas I am the only child of my parents, I should bring down their old age with sorrow to hell. Tob. 6:15
- Now when Raguel heard this he was afraid, knowing what had happened to those seven husbands, that went in unto her: and he began to fear lest it might happen to him also in like manner: and as he was in suspense, and gave no answer to his petition, Tob. 7:11
- For he said: Lest perhaps it may have happened to him, in like manner as it did to the other seven husbands, that went in unto her. Tob. 8:12
- Dread and horror seized upon their minds, lest he should do the same to Jerusalem and to the temple of the Lord, that he had done to other cities and their temples. Jud. 4:2
- And Judith answered him and said: Now I cannot eat of these things which thou commandest to be given me, lest sin come upon me: but I will eat of the things which I have brought. Jud. 12:2
- But I feared lest I should transfer the honour of my God to a man, and lest I should adore any one except my God. Esther 13:14
- Give not, O Lord, thy sceptre to them that are not, lest they laugh at our ruin: but turn their counsel upon themselves, and destroy him that hath begun to rage against us. Esther 14:11
- And when the days of their feasting were gone about, Job sent to them, and sanctified them: and rising up early, offered holocausts for every one of them. For he said: Lest perhaps my sons have sinned, and have blessed God in their hearts. So did Job all days. Job 1:5
- Lest you should say: We have found wisdom, God hath cast him down, not man. Job 32:13
- Embrace discipline, lest at any time the Lord be angry, and you perish from the just way. When his wrath shall be kindled in a short time, blessed are all they that trust in him. Ps. 2:12
- Lest at any time he seize upon my soul like a lion, while there is no one to redeem me, nor to save. Ps. 7:2
- Lest at any time my enemy say: I have prevailed against him. They that trouble me, will rejoice when I am moved: Ps. 13:4
- ¤ Unto thee will I cry, O Lord: O my God, be not thou silent to me: lest if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit. Ps. 28:1
- For I said: Lest at any time my enemies rejoice over me: and whilst my feet are moved, they speak great things against me. Ps. 38:16
- Understand these things, you that forget God; lest he snatch you away, and there be none to deliver you. Ps. 50:22
- God shall let me see over my enemies: slay them not, lest at any time my people forget. Scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord, my protector: Ps. 59:11
- Lest they should say among the Gentiles: Where is their God? And let him be made known among the nations before our eyes, By the revenging the blood of thy servants, which hath been shed: Ps. 79:10
- In their hands they shall bear thee up: lest thou dash thy foot against a stone. Ps. 91:12
- And he said that he would destroy them: had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach: To turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them. Ps. 106:23
- For thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake: lest the Gentiles should say: Where is their God? Ps. 115:2
- Give me not up, O Lord, from my desire to the wicked: they have plotted against me; do not thou forsake me, lest they should triumph. Ps. 140:8
- Hear me speedily, O Lord: my spirit hath fainted away. Turn not away thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit. Ps. 143:7
- Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, and thy labours be in another man's house, Pr. 5:10
- Rebuke not a scorner, lest he hate thee. Rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee. Pr. 9:8
- Love not sleep, lest poverty oppress thee: open thy eyes, and be filled with bread. Pr. 20:13
- Lest perhaps thou learn his ways, and take scandal to thy soul. Pr. 22:25
- Lest the Lord see, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him. Pr. 24:18
- The things which thy eyes have seen, utter not hastily in a quarrel: lest afterward thou mayst not be able to make amends, when thou hast dishonoured thy friend. Pr. 25:8
- Lest he insult over thee, when he hath heard it, and cease not to upbraid thee. Grace and friendship deliver a man: keep these for thyself, lest thou fall under reproach. Pr. 25:10
- Thou hast found honey, eat what is sufficient for thee, lest being glutted therewith thou vomit it up. Pr. 25:16
- Withdraw thy foot from the house of thy neighbour, lest having his fill he hate thee. Pr. 25:17
- Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou be made like him. Pr. 26:4
- Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he imagine himself to be wise. Pr. 26:5
- Add not any thing to his words, lest thou be reproved and found a liar: Pr. 30:6
- Lest perhaps being filled, I should be tempted to deny, and say: Who is the Lord? or being compelled by poverty, I should steal, and forswear the name of my God. Pr. 30:9
- Accuse not a servant to his master, lest he curse thee, and thou fall. Pr. 30:10
- And lest they drink and forget judgments, and pervert the cause of the children of the poor. Pr. 31:5
- Give not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin: and say not before the angel: There is no providence: lest God be angry at thy words, and destroy all the works of thy hands. Eccl. 5:6
- Be not over just: and be not more wise than is necessary, lest thou become stupid. Eccl. 7:16
- Be not overmuch wicked: and be not foolish, lest thou die before thy time. Eccl. 7:17
- But do not apply thy heart to all words that are spoken: lest perhaps thou hear thy servant reviling thee. Eccl. 7:21
- Shew me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou liest in the midday, lest I begin to wander after the flocks of thy companions. Cant. 1:7
- He was taken away, lest wickedness should alter his understanding, or deceit beguile his soul. Wis. 4:11
- Providing for it, lest it should fall, knowing that it is unable to help itself: for it is an image, and hath need of help. Wis. 13:16
- For they were examined for the remembrance of thy words, and were quickly healed, lest falling into deep forgetfulness, they might not be able to use thy help. Wis. 16:11
- For the visions that troubled them foreshewed these things, lest they should perish, and not know why they suffered these evils. Wis. 18:19
- Watch over them, lest thou fall, and bring dishonour upon thy soul, Sir. 1:38
- Ye that fear the Lord, wait for his mercy: and go not aside from him lest ye fall. Sir. 2:7
- If thou have understanding, answer thy neighbour: but if not, let thy hand be upon thy mouth, lest thou be surprised in an unskilful word, and be confounded. Sir. 5:14
- Extol not thyself in the thoughts of thy soul like a bull: lest thy strength be quashed by folly, Sir. 6:2
- Seek not to be made a judge, unless thou have strength enough to extirpate iniquities: lest thou fear the person of the powerful, and lay a stumblingblock for thy integrity. Sir. 7:6
- ¤ Strive not with a powerful man, lest thou fall into his hands. Sir. 8:1
- Contend not with a rich man, lest he bring an action against thee. Sir. 8:2
- Communicate not with an ignorant man, lest he speak ill of thy family. Sir. 8:5
- Kindle not the coals of sinners by rebuking them, lest thou be burnt with the flame of the fire of their sins. Sir. 8:13
- Stand not against the face of an injurious person, lest he sit as a spy to entrap thee in thy words. Sir. 8:14
- Go not on the way with a bold man, lest he burden thee with his evils: for he goeth according to his own will, and thou shalt perish together with his folly. Sir. 8:18
- Open not thy heart to every man: lest he repay thee with an evil turn, and speak reproachfully to thee. Sir. 8:22
- ¤ Be not jealous over the wife of thy bosom, lest she shew in thy regard the malice of a wicked lesson. Sir. 9:1
- Give not the power of thy soul to a woman, lest she enter upon thy strength, and thou be confounded. Sir. 9:2
- Look not upon a woman that hath a mind for many: lest thou fall into her snares. Sir. 9:3
- Use not much the company of her that is a dancer, and hearken not to her, lest thou perish by the force of her charms. Sir. 9:4
- Gaze not upon a maiden, lest her beauty be a stumblingblock to thee. Sir. 9:5
- Give not thy soul to harlots in any point: lest thou destroy thyself and thy inheritance. Sir. 9:6
- And strive not with her over wine, lest thy heart decline towards her and by thy blood thou fall into destruction. Sir. 9:13
- And if thou come to him, commit no fault, lest he take away thy life. Sir. 9:19
- Take heed to thyself of a mischievous man, for he worketh evils: lest he bring upon thee reproach for ever. Sir. 11:35
- Do good to the humble, and give not to the ungodly: hold back thy bread, and give it not to him, lest thereby he overmaster thee. Sir. 12:6
- Set him not by thee, neither let him sit on thy right hand, lest he turn into thy place, and seek to take thy seat and at the last thou acknowledge my words, and be pricked with my sayings. Sir. 12:12
- Be not lowly in thy wisdom, lest being humbled thou be deceived into folly. Sir. 13:11
- Be not troublesome to him, lest thou be put back: and keep not far from him, lest thou be forgotten. Sir. 13:13
- Reprove a friend, lest he may not have understood, and say: I did it not: or if he did it, that he may do it no more. Sir. 19:13
- Lest my ignorances increase, and my offences be multiplied, and my sins abound, and I fall before my adversaries, and my enemy rejoice over me? Sir. 23:3
- Lest God forget thee in their sight, and thou, by thy daily custom be infatuated and suffer reproach: and wish that thou hadst not been born, and curse the day of thy nativity. Sir. 23:19
- Cut her off from thy flesh, lest she always abuse thee. Sir. 25:36
- On a daughter that turneth not away herself, set a strict watch: lest finding an opportunity she abuse herself. Sir. 26:13
- And take heed lest thou slip with thy tongue, and fall in the sight of thy enemies who lie in wait for thee, and thy fall be incurable unto death. Sir. 28:30
- Laugh not with him, lest thou have sorrow, and at the last thy teeth be set on edge. Sir. 30:10
- Bow down his neck while he is young, and beat his sides while he is a child, lest he grow stubborn, and regard thee not, and so be a sorrow of heart to thee. Sir. 30:12
- Instruct thy son, and labour about him, lest his lewd behaviour be an offence to thee. Sir. 30:13
- Stretch not out thy hand first, lest being disgraced with envy thou be put to confusion. Sir. 31:16
- Use as a frugal man the things that are set before thee: lest if thou eatest much, thou be hated. Sir. 31:19
- Leave off first, for manners' sake: and exceed not, lest thou offend. Sir. 31:20
- Go not in the way of ruin, and thou shalt not stumble against the stones: trust not thyself to a rugged way, lest thou set a stumblingblock to thy soul. Sir. 32:25
- Give not to son or wife, brother or friend, power over thee while thou livest; and give not thy estate to another, lest thou repent, and thou entreat for the same. Sir. 33:20
- Lest he thrust a stake into the ground, and say to thee: Sir. 37:10
- The father waketh for the daughter when no man knoweth, and the care for her taketh away his sleep, when she is young, lest she pass away the flower of her age, and when she is married, lest she should be hateful: Sir. 42:9
- In her virginity, lest she should be corrupted, and be found with child in her father's house: and having a husband, lest she should misbehave herself, or at the least become barren. Sir. 42:10
- Keep a sure watch over a shameless daughter: lest at anytime she make thee become a laughingstock to thy enemies, and a byword in the city, and a reproach among the people, and she make thee ashamed before all the multitude. Sir. 42:11
- Blind the heart of this people, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes: lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted and I heal them. Isa. 6:10
- I am the Lord that keep it, I will suddenly give it drink: lest any hurt come to it, I keep it night and day. Isa. 27:3
- And now do not mock, lest your bonds be tied strait. For I have heard of the Lord the God of hosts a consumption and a cutting short upon all the earth. Isa. 28:22
- He that walketh in justices, and speaketh truth, that casteth away avarice by oppression, and shaketh his hands from all bribes, that stoppeth his ears lest he hear blood, and shutteth his eyes that he may see no evil. Isa. 33:15
- I foretold thee of old, before they came to pass I told thee, lest thou shouldst say: My idols have done these things, and my graven and molten things have commanded them. Isa. 48:5
- They are created now, and not of old: and before the day, when thou heardest them not, lest thou shouldst say: Behold I knew them. Isa. 48:7
- For my name's sake I will remove my wrath far off: and for my praise I will bridle thee, lest thou shouldst perish. Isa. 48:9
- Be circumcised to the Lord, and take away the foreskins of your hearts, ye men of Juda, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my indignation come forth like fire, and burn, and there be none that can quench it because of the wickedness of your thoughts. Jer. 4:4
- Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee, lest I make thee desolate, a land uninhabited. Jer. 6:8
- Correct me, O Lord, but yet with judgment: and not in thy fury, lest thou bring me to nothing. Jer. 10:24
- O house of David, thus saith the Lord: Judge ye judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is oppressed by violence out of the hand of the oppressor: lest my indignation go forth like a fire, and be kindled, and there be none to quench it, because of the evil of your ways. Jer. 21:12
- Now therefore hear, I beseech thee, my lord the king: let my petition be accepted in thy sight: and send me not back into the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there. Jer. 37:20
- And king Sedecias said to Jeremias: I am afraid because of the Jews that are fled over to the Chaldeans: lest I should be delivered into their hands, and they should abuse me. Jer. 38:19
- But Johanan the son of Caree, spoke to Godolias privately in Masphath, saying: I will go, and I will kill Ismahel the son of Nathanias, and no man shall know it, lest he kill thee, and all the Jews be scattered, that are gathered unto thee, and the remnant of Juda perish. Jer. 40:15
- And lest your hearts faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land: and a rumour shall come in one year, and after this year another rumour: and iniquity in the land, and ruler upon ruler. Jer. 51:46
- And as the gates are made sure on every side upon one that hath offended the king, or like a dead man carried to the grave, so do the priests secure the doors with bars and locks, lest they be stripped by thieves. Bar. 6:17
- But I spared them for the sake of my name, lest it should be profaned before the nations, from which I brought them out, in their sight. Ezec. 20:14
- And they shall come near no dead person, lest they be defiled, only their father and mother, and son and daughter, and brother and sister, that hath not had another husband: for whom they may become unclean. Ezec. 44:25
- Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born: and I will make her as a wilderness, and will set her as a land that none can pass through and will kill her with drought. Osee 2:3
- And lest they may say in their hearts, that I remember all their wickedness: their own devices now have beset them about, they have been done before my face. Osee 7:2
- Seek ye the Lord, and live: lest the house of Joseph be burnt with fire, and it shall devour, and there shall be none to quench Bethel. Amso 5:6
- And they made their heart as the adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the Lord of hosts sent in his spirit by the hand of the former prophets: so a great indignation came from the Lord of hosts. Zach. 7:12
- And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers: lest I come, and strike the earth with anathema. Mal. 4:6
- And a good counsel came into their minds, to pull it down: lest it should be a reproach to them, because the Gentiles had defiled it; so they threw it down. 1 Ma. 4:45
- They built up also at that time Mount Sion, with high walls, and strong towers round about, lest the Gentiles should at any time come, and tread it down, as they did before. 1 Ma. 4:60
- Chose rather to send to you to renew the brotherhood and friendship, lest we should become strangers to you altogether: for there is a long time passed since you sent to us. 1 Ma. 12:10
- Fearing lest Jonathan would not suffer him, but would fight against him: he sought to seize upon him, and to kill him. So he rose up and came to Bethsan. 1 Ma. 12:40
- Now Simon knew that he spoke deceitfully to him; nevertheless, he ordered the money and the children to be sent, lest he should bring upon himself a great hatred of the people of Israel, who might have said: 1 Ma. 13:17
- But Judas ordered armed men to be ready in convenient places, lest some mischief might be suddenly practised by the enemies: so they made an agreeable conference. 2 Ma. 14:22
- And said to him: If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down, for it is written: That he hath given his angels charge over thee, and in their hands shall they bear thee up, lest perhaps thou dash thy foot against a stone. Mt. 4:6
- Be at agreement with thy adversary betimes, whilst thou art in the way with him: lest perhaps the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison. Mt. 5:25
- Give not that which is holy to dogs; neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turning upon you, they tear you. Mt. 7:6
- For the heart of this people is grown gross, and with their ears they have been dull of hearing, and their eyes they have shut: lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them. Mt. 13:15
- And he said: No, lest perhaps gathering up the cockle, you root up the wheat also together with it. Mt. 13:29
- And Jesus called together his disciples, and said: I have compassion on the multitudes, because they continue with me now three days, and have not what to eat, and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way. Mt. 15:32
- The wise answered, saying: Lest perhaps there be not enough for us and for you, go ye rather to them that sell and buy for yourselves. Mt. 25:9
- But they said: Not on the festival day, lest perhaps there should be a tumult among the people. Mt. 26:5
- Command therefore the sepulchre to be guarded until the third day: lest perhaps his disciples come and steal him away and say to the people: He is risen from the dead. And the last error shall be worse than the first. Mt. 27:64
- And he spoke to his disciples that a small ship should wait on him, because of the multitude, lest they should throng him. Mk. 3:9
- That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them. Mk. 4:12
- And Jesus answering, began to say to them: Take heed lest any man deceive you. Mk. 13:5
- Lest coming on a sudden, he find you sleeping. Mk. 13:36
- But they said: Not on the festival day, lest there should be a tumult among the people. Mk. 14:2
- And that in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest perhaps thou dash thy foot against a stone. Lk. 4:11
- And they by the way side are they that hear: then the devil cometh and taketh the word out of their heart, lest believing they should be saved. Lk. 8:12
- And when thou goest with thy adversary to the prince, whilst thou art in the way, endeavour to be delivered from him: lest perhaps he draw thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the exacter, and the exacter cast thee into prison. Lk. 12:58
- When thou art invited to a wedding, sit not down in the first place, lest perhaps one more honourable than thou be invited by him: Lk. 14:8
- And he said to him also that had invited him: When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends nor thy brethren nor thy kinsmen nor thy neighbours who are rich; lest perhaps they also invite thee again, and a recompense be made to thee. Lk. 14:12
- Lest, after he hath laid the foundation and is not able to finish it, all that see it begin to mock him, Lk. 14:29
- For I have five brethren, that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torments. Lk. 16:28
- Yet because this widow is troublesome to me, I will avenge her, lest continually coming she weary me. Lk. 18:5
- And take heed to yourselves, lest perhaps your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and the cares of this life: and that day come upon you suddenly. Lk. 21:34
- And when he was come to the place, he said to them: Pray, lest ye enter into temptation. Lk. 22:40
- And he said to them: Why sleep you? Arise: pray: lest you enter into temptation. Lk. 22:46
- Afterwards, Jesus findeth him in the temple and saith to him: Behold thou art made whole: sin no more, lest some worse thing happen to thee. Jn. 5:14
- And when they were filled, he said to his disciples: Gather up the fragments that remain, lest they be lost. Jn. 6:12
- Then went the officer with the ministers and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should be stoned. Acts 5:26
- But if it be of God, you cannot overthrow it, lest perhaps you be found even to fight against God. Acts 5:39
- Beware, therefore, lest that come upon you which is spoken in the prophets: Acts 13:40
- For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus, lest he should be stayed any time in Asia. For he hasted, if it were possible for him, to keep the day of Pentecost at Jerusalem. Acts 20:16
- And when there arose a great dissension, the tribune, fearing lest Paul should be pulled in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and to take him by force from among them and to bring him into the castle. Acts 23:10
- (For he feared lest perhaps the Jews might take him away by force and kill him: and he should afterwards be slandered, as if he was to take money.) And he wrote a letter after this manner: Acts 23:25
- Which being taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship: and fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, they let down the sail yard and so were driven. Acts 27:17
- Then fearing lest we should fall upon rough places, they cast four anchors out of the stern: and wished for the day. Acts 27:29
- And the soldiers' counsel was that they should kill the prisoners, lest any of them, swimming out should escape. Acts 27:42
- For the heart of this people is grown gross, and with their ears have they heard heavily and their eyes they have shut, lest perhaps they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and should be converted: and I should heal them. Acts 28:27
- For if God hath not spared the natural branches, fear lest perhaps he also spare not thee. Rom. 11:21
- For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, of this mystery (lest you should be wise in your own conceits) that blindness in part has happened in Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles should come in. Rom. 11:25
- And I have so preached this gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man's foundation. Rom. 15:20
- Lest any should say that you were baptized in my name. 1 Cor. 1:15
- For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not in wisdom of speech, lest the cross of Christ should be made void. 1 Cor. 1:17
- Defraud not one another, except, perhaps, by consent, for a time, that you may give yourselves to prayer: and return together again, lest Satan tempt you for your incontinency. 1 Cor. 7:5
- But take heed lest perhaps this your liberty become a stumblingblock to the weak. 1 Cor. 8:9
- Wherefore, if meat scandalize my brother, I will never eat flesh, lest I should scandalize my brother. 1 Cor. 8:13
- If others be partakers of this power over you, why not we rather? Nevertheless, we have not used this power: but we bear all things, lest we should give any hindrance to the gospel of Christ. 1 Cor. 9:12
- But I chastise my body and bring it into subjection: lest perhaps, when I have preached to others, I myself should become a castaway. 1 Cor. 9:27
- Wherefore, he that thinketh himself to stand, let him take heed lest he fall. 1 Cor. 10:12
- So that on the contrary, you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow. 2 Cor. 2:7
- Avoiding this, lest any man should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us. 2 Cor. 8:20
- Lest, when the Macedonians shall come with me and find you unprepared, we (not to say ye) should be ashamed in this matter. 2 Cor. 9:4
- But I fear lest, as the serpent seduced Eve by his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted and fall from the simplicity that is in Christ. 2 Cor. 11:3
- For though I should have a mind to glory, I shall not be foolish: for I will say the truth. But I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth in me, or any thing he heareth from me. 2 Cor. 12:6
- And lest the greatness of the revelations should exalt me, there was given me a sting of my flesh, an angel of Satan, to buffet me. 2 Cor. 12:7
- For I fear lest perhaps, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found by you such as you would not. Lest perhaps contentions, envyings, animosities, dissensions, detractions, whisperings, swellings, seditions, be among you. 2 Cor. 12:20
- Lest again, when I come, God humble me among you: and I mourn many of them that sinned before and have not done penance for the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness that they have committed. 2 Cor. 12:21
- And I went up according to revelation and communicated to them the gospel which I preach among the Gentiles: but apart to them who seemed to be some thing: lest perhaps I should run or had run in vain. Gal. 2:2
- I am afraid of you, lest perhaps I have laboured in vain among you. Gal. 4:11
- ¤ Brethren, and if a man be overtaken in any fault, you, who are spiritual, instruct such a one in the spirit of meekness, considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. Gal. 6:1
- For indeed he was sick, nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him. And not only on him, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow. Phil. 2:27
- Beware lest any man cheat you by philosophy and vain deceit: according to the tradition of men according to the elements of the world and not according to Christ. Col. 2:8
- Fathers, provoke not your children to indignation, lest they be discouraged. Col. 3:21
- For you remember, brethren, our labour and toil: working night and day, lest we should be chargeable to any of you, we preached among you the gospel of God. 1 Th. 2:9
- For this cause also, I, forbearing no longer, sent to know your faith: lest perhaps he that tempteth should have tempted you: and our labour should be made vain. 1 Th. 3:5
- Neither did we eat any man's bread for nothing: but in labour and in toil we worked night and day, lest we should be chargeable to any of you. 2 Th. 3:8
- Not a neophyte: lest, being puffed up with pride, he fall into the judgment of the devil. 1 Tim. 3:6
- Moreover, he must have a good testimony of them who are without: lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil. 1 Tim. 3:7
- ¤ Whosoever are servants under the yoke, let them count their masters worthy of all honour; lest the name of the Lord and his doctrine be blasphemed. 1 Tim. 6:1
- ¤ Therefore ought we more diligently to observe the things which we have heard lest perhaps we should let them slip. Heb. 2:1
- Take heed, brethren, lest perhaps there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, to depart from the living God. Heb. 3:12
- ¤ Let us fear therefore lest, the promise being left of entering into his rest, any of you should be thought to be wanting. Heb. 4:1
- Let us hasten therefore to enter into that rest: lest any man fall into the same example of unbelief. Heb. 4:11
- Looking diligently, lest any man be wanting to the grace of God: lest any root of bitterness springing up do hinder and by it many be defiled: Heb. 12:15
- Lest there be any fornicator or profane person, as Esau who for one mess sold his first birthright. Heb. 12:16
- You therefore, brethren, knowing these things before, take heed, lest being led aside by the error of the unwise, you fall from your own steadfastness. 2 Pet. 3:17
- Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. Apoc. 16:15
- Let al thinges be done to the most high God according to the law of God, lest perhaps there arise wrath in the reigne of the king, and of his sonne, and his sonnes. 3 Esd. 8:23