Top 7 Bible Verses About Danger

Here are seven Bible verses about danger.

Second Corinthians 11:26 “On frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from robbers, danger from my own people, danger from Gentiles, danger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from false brothers.”

Talk about living with danger, Paul also wrote, “Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I was adrift at sea” (2nd Cor 11:25) and very often “in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure” (2nd Cor 11:27) but he never stopped just because it was dangerous. He knew that he was called to witness before kings and rulers and Jews and Gentiles and being stoned, beaten, imprisoned, and once thought to be dead, wasn’t going to stop him from proclaiming the gospel.

First Corinthians 15:30-31 “Why are we in danger every hour? I protest, brothers, by my pride in you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die every day!”

The Apostle Paul probably faced more persecution in his life than the other apostles but he never once complained about it. He gave some details of his dangers (2nd Cor 11:25-27) but he knew that it was going to work out for his best, no matter what happened (Rom 8:28). Paul understood that his present toils and dangers were not even comparable to the eternal glory that’s coming someday (Rom 8:18). Do you think about those things when you are faced with danger? Many missionaries live in constant danger, just like many Christians in parts of the world where they could be killed for their faith and often are!

Acts 27:9-10 “Since much time had passed, and the voyage was now dangerous because even the Fast was already over, Paul advised them, saying, “Sirs, I perceive that the voyage will be with injury and much loss, not only of the cargo and the ship, but also of our lives.”

The “Fast” that is recorded in these verses is likely the Day of Atonement, the only high day where the Jews fasted. This is usually in the fall and so Paul advised them by telling them that he believed there’d be much harm to life and cargo in they sailed right then. He knew it was the stormy season of the year in the Mediterranean Sea and so by this time. Paul probably recognized this and likely knew the seasons very well because by now, he was an experienced traveler on the sea. In the end, they failed to listen to Paul and indeed, the ship crashed onto a rocky shore. In God’s sovereignty, no one died, including of course the Apostle Paul.

Matthew 5:22 “But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire.”

You can just as easily use the word “liable” as being “in danger of” since Jesus is warning His listeners that God sees hatred as murdering someone in their heart. Murder starts with hatred and if left unchecked, it can boil into a simmering caldron of anger that is ready to explode into rage at any moment. Then the only thing left is for the actual murder to take place. Of course, most don’t go that far, but murder, in God’s sight, can be done in the heart where there is a continuous hatred toward someone or a group of people.

Proverbs 27:12 “The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it.”

This verse is exactly the same as what Solomon wrote in Proverbs 22:3. He repeats it word for word, “The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it” (Prov 22:3) so since he repeats this twice in the Book of Proverbs, he’s probably trying to emphasize it to the reader. The same repetition with such verses as “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom” (Prov 9:10a) reveals their importance for us to know and how important it is to God. The most important point in Proverbs 27:12 and 22:3 are that the prudent see danger coming, perhaps because they have the wisdom to see it coming (Prov 9:10).  Without God’s wisdom, “the simple go on and suffer for it.”

First Samuel 20:21 “And behold, I will send the boy, saying, ‘Go, find the arrows.’ If I say to the boy, ‘Look, the arrows are on this side of you, take them,’ then you are to come, for, as the Lord lives, it is safe for you and there is no danger.”

This is where David is in hiding and Jonathan is trying to find out if King Saul really is trying to kill David. David knows he is but Jonathan’s not yet convinced that his father is trying to kill David so he sets up a secret signal so that David will know. If the arrows are one side of where he’s hiding, then his father, King Saul, is trying to kill David. If on the other side, David is safe in Saul’s sight. Of course that turns out to be true and King Saul does seek David’s life and so Jonathan tells David this by using the arrows as a signal.

Romans 8:35 “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?”

There is not anything that can separate us from the love of Christ. That includes dangers (like shipwrecks), swords (perhaps meaning, beheading), nakedness (like freezing in the Roman dungeons), or persecution (included beatings, being stoned), famine (on their travels or when arrested), tribulation (of which Paul saw plenty), and even distress (of which he had more than his fair share of). Paul then went on to cover just about any possibility of not being separated from God, including “death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Rom 8:38-39).

Conclusion

If you live in a part of the world where you risk your life by professing your faith in Christ, you know all about danger. For you, it lurks around every corner. It hangs on every monitored phone call. It spies by an intricate network of enemies. If I leave you nothing else but this thought, I will be happy; “in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us” (Rom 8:37). For those who are in Christ, not even danger can “separate us from the love of Christ.”

Article by Jack Wellman

Jack Wellman is Pastor of the Mulvane Brethren Church in Mulvane Kansas. Jack is also the Senior Writer at What Christians Want To Know whose mission is to equip, encourage, and energize Christians and to address questions about the believer’s daily walk with God and the Bible. You can follow Jack on Google Plus or check out his book Teaching Children the Gospel available on Amazon.