Instability

Passages on this topic

From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

General scriptures concerning

• Genesis 49:3–4 Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, excelling in honor, excelling in power. Uncontrolled as the waters, you will no longer excel, because you went up to your father’s bed, onto my couch, and defiled it.
• Exodus 8:15 When Pharaoh saw that there was relief, however, he hardened his heart and would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the LORD had said.
• Exodus 8:32 But Pharaoh hardened his heart this time as well, and he would not let the people go.
• Exodus 9:34 When Pharaoh saw that the rain and hail and thunder had ceased, he sinned again and hardened his heart — he and his officials.
• Exodus 10:8–11 So Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh. “Go, worship the LORD your God,” he said. “But who exactly will be going?” “We will go with our young and old,” Moses replied. “We will go with our sons and daughters, and with our flocks and herds, for we must hold a feast to the LORD.”
• Exodus 10:16–20 Pharaoh quickly summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you. Now please forgive my sin once more and appeal to the LORD your God, that He may remove this death from me.” So Moses left Pharaoh’s presence and appealed to the LORD. And the LORD changed t…
• Exodus 14:5 When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his officials changed their minds about them and said, “What have we done? We have released Israel from serving us.”
• Exodus 32:8–10 How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves a molten calf and have bowed down to it. They have sacrificed to it and said, ‘These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.’” The LORD also said to Moses, “I have see…
• Exodus 19:8 And all the people answered together, “We will do everything that the LORD has spoken.” So Moses brought their words back to the LORD.
• Exodus 24:3 When Moses came and told the people all the words and ordinances of the LORD, they all responded with one voice: “All the words that the LORD has spoken, we will do.”

See BACKSLIDING

See Hypocrisy

See Indecision

Instances of

Reuben

• Genesis 49:4 Uncontrolled as the waters, you will no longer excel, because you went up to your father’s bed, onto my couch, and defiled it.

Saul, in his feelings toward David

• 1 Samuel 18:19 So when it was time to give Saul’s daughter Merab to David, she was given in marriage to Adriel of Meholah.

David, in yielding to lust

• 2 Samuel 11:2–9 One evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing— a very beautiful woman. So David sent and inquired about the woman, and he was told, “This is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.” Then Davi…

Solomon, in yielding to his idolatrous wives

• 1 Kings 11:1–8 King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh — women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon, as well as Hittite women. These women were from the nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, for surely they will turn your he…

Ephraim and Judah

• Hosea 6:4 What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? For your loyalty is like a morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes.

Lot's wife

• Luke 17:32 Remember Lot’s wife!

Some disciples of Jesus

• John 6:66 From that time on many of His disciples turned back and no longer walked with Him.

Mark

• Acts 15:38 But Paul thought it best not to take him, because he had deserted them in Pamphylia and had not accompanied them in the work.