Nave’s Topical Bible
Instability
41 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- General scriptures concerning
Genesis 49:3-4; Exodus 8:15,32; Exodus 9:34; Exodus 10:8-11,16-20; Exodus 14:5; Exodus 32:8-10; Exodus 19:8; Exodus 24:3,7; Judges 2:17; 1 Kings 18:21; Psalms 106:12-13; Proverbs 24:21-22; Proverbs 27:8; Jeremiah 2:36; Hosea 6:4-5; Matthew 6:24; Matthew 8:19-20; Matthew 12:25; Matthew 13:20-21; Mark 4:14-19; Luke 8:13-14; Luke 9:57-62; Luke 17:32; John 5:35; Galatians 1:6; Galatians 4:9-11; Ephesians 4:14; Hebrews 13:9; James 1:6-8; James 4:8; 2 Peter 2:14; Revelation 2:4; Revelation 3:2,15-16
See BACKSLIDING
See HYPOCRISY
See INDECISION
- INSTANCES OF
- Reuben
- Saul, in his feelings toward David
- David, in yielding to lust
- Solomon, in yielding to his idolatrous wives
- Ephraim and Judah
- Lot's wife
- Some disciples of Jesus
- Mark
Bible verses about “Instability”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Genesis 49:3Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:
- Genesis 49:4Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father’s bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.
- Exodus 8:15But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart, and hearkened not unto them; as the Lord had said.
- Exodus 8:32And Pharaoh hardened his heart at this time also, neither would he let the people go.
- Exodus 9:34And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants.
- Exodus 10:8And Moses and Aaron were brought again unto Pharaoh: and he said unto them, Go, serve the Lord your God: but who are they that shall go?
- Exodus 10:9And Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast unto the Lord.
- Exodus 10:10And he said unto them, Let the Lord be so with you, as I will let you go, and your little ones: look to it; for evil is before you.
- Exodus 10:11Not so: go now ye that are men, and serve the Lord; for that ye did desire. And they were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence.
- Exodus 10:16Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said, I have sinned against the Lord your God, and against you.
- Exodus 10:17Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and intreat the Lord your God, that he may take away from me this death only.
- Exodus 10:18And he went out from Pharaoh, and intreated the Lord.
- Exodus 10:19And the Lord turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt.
- Exodus 10:20But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel go.
- Exodus 14:5And it was told the king of Egypt that the people fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned against the people, and they said, Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us?
- Exodus 32:8They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 32:9And the Lord said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
- Exodus 32:10Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.
- Exodus 19:8And all the people answered together, and said, All that the Lord hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto the Lord.
- Exodus 24:3And Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the Lord hath said will we do.
- Exodus 24:7And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the Lord hath said will we do, and be obedient.
- Judges 2:17And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the Lord; but they did not so.
- 1 Kings 18:21And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.
- Psalms 106:12Then believed they his words; they sang his praise.
- Psalms 106:13They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel:
- Proverbs 24:21My son, fear thou the Lord and the king: and meddle not with them that are given to change:
- Proverbs 24:22For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knoweth the ruin of them both?
- Proverbs 27:8As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.
- Jeremiah 2:36Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.
- Hosea 6:4O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.
- Hosea 6:5Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth.
- Matthew 6:24No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
- Matthew 8:19And a certain scribe came, and said unto him, Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest.
- Matthew 8:20And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
- Matthew 12:25And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand:
- Matthew 13:20But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it;
- Matthew 13:21Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.
- Mark 4:14The sower soweth the word.
- Mark 4:15And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown; but when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately, and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts.
- Mark 4:16And these are they likewise which are sown on stony ground; who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with gladness;