What Does the Bible Say About Speculation?

2 Timothy 2:23 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Have nothing to do with foolish, ignorant controversies; you know that they breed quarrels.

Proverbs 18:13 ESV / 9 helpful votes

If one gives an answer before he hears, it is his folly and shame.

2 Corinthians 10:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes

We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

Matthew 25:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour.

Romans 9:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

As it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

Matthew 24:44 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.

2 Peter 3:15-16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him, as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures.

Genesis 1:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

1 John 2:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour.

1 John 2:22-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son. No one who denies the Son has the Father. Whoever confesses the Son has the Father also.

Hebrews 9:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

2 John 1:7 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not confess the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh. Such a one is the deceiver and the antichrist.

15 Bible Verses about Speculation

2 Timothy 2:23 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Proverbs 18:13 ESV / 9 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 10:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Matthew 25:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Romans 9:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Matthew 24:44 ESV / 5 helpful votes

2 Peter 3:15-16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Genesis 1:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 John 2:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 2:22-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 9:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 John 1:7 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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15 Bible Verses about Speculation

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2 Timothy 2:23 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Proverbs 18:13 ESV / 9 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 10:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Matthew 25:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Romans 9:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Matthew 24:44 ESV / 5 helpful votes

2 Peter 3:15-16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Genesis 1:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 John 2:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 2:22-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 9:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 John 1:7 ESV / 1 helpful vote