Nave’s Topical Bible
Curiosity
21 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- General scriptures concerning
- INSTANCES OF
- Of Eve
- Of Abraham, to know whether God would destroy the righteous People who lived in Sodom
- Of Jacob, to know the name of the angel
- Of the Israelites
- To see God
- To witness the offering in the Holy of Holies
- Of Manoah, to know the name of an angel
- Of the people of Beth-shemish, to look inside the ark of the Covenant
- Of the Babylonians, to see Hezekiah's treasures
- Of Daniel, to know a vision
- Of Peter
- To know what was being done with Jesus
- To know what John would be appointed to do
- A disciple, to know if few would be saved
- Of Herod (Antipas), to see Jesus
- Of the Jews
- To see Lazarus, after he was raised from the dead
- And to see Jesus
- Of the disciples, to know whether Jesus would restore the Kingdom of the Jews
- Of the Athenians, to hear some new thing
- Of angels, to look into the mysteries of salvation
Bible verses about “Curiosity”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Proverbs 27:20Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
- Ecclesiastes 7:21Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest thou hear thy servant curse thee:
- Genesis 3:6And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
- Genesis 18:23And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?
- Genesis 18:24Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?
- Genesis 18:25That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
- Genesis 18:26And the Lord said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.
- Genesis 18:27And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:
- Genesis 18:28Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.
- Genesis 18:29And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for forty’s sake.
- Genesis 18:30And he said unto him, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there.
- Genesis 18:31And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty’s sake.
- Genesis 18:32And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten’s sake.
- Genesis 32:29And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.
- Exodus 19:21And the Lord said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto the Lord to gaze, and many of them perish.
- Exodus 19:24And the Lord said unto him, Away, get thee down, and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the people break through to come up unto the Lord, lest he break forth upon them.
- Numbers 4:19But thus do unto them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach unto the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service and to his burden:
- Numbers 4:20But they shall not go in to see when the holy things are covered, lest they die.
- Judges 13:17And Manoah said unto the angel of the Lord, What is thy name, that when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee honour?
- Judges 13:18And the angel of the Lord said unto him, Why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it is secret?
- 1 Samuel 6:19And he smote the men of Beth–shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the Lord, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the Lord had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter.
- 2 Kings 20:13And Hezekiah hearkened unto them, and shewed them all the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not.
- Daniel 12:8And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things?
- Daniel 12:9And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.
- John 21:21Peter seeing him saith to Jesus, Lord, and what shall this man do?
- John 21:22Jesus saith unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? follow thou me.
- Luke 13:23Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said unto them,
- Luke 9:9And Herod said, John have I beheaded: but who is this, of whom I hear such things? And he desired to see him.
- Luke 23:8And when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceeding glad: for he was desirous to see him of a long season, because he had heard many things of him; and he hoped to have seen some miracle done by him.
- John 12:9Much people of the Jews therefore knew that he was there: and they came not for Jesus’ sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.
- John 12:20And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast:
- John 12:21The same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus.
- Acts 1:6When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?
- Acts 1:7And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.
- Acts 17:19And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is?
- Acts 17:20For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.
- Acts 17:21(For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)
- 1 Peter 1:12Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.