Bible verses about Boundaries
Verses about wise limits, personal responsibility and guarding what matters.
Guard your heart with all diligence, for from it flow springs of life.
Proverbs 4:23Seldom set foot in your neighbor’s house, lest he grow weary and hate you.
Proverbs 25:17Like a city whose walls are broken down is a man who does not control his temper.
Proverbs 25:28Simply let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No.’ Anything more comes from the evil one.
Matthew 5:37If your brother sins against you, go and confront him privately. If he listens to you, you have won your brother over.
Matthew 18:15Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.
Romans 12:2Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;
1 Corinthians 6:19you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.
1 Corinthians 6:20Am I now seeking the approval of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ.
Galatians 1:10For each one should carry his own load.
Galatians 6:5Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are all members of one another.
Ephesians 4:25Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,
Ephesians 5:15Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think on these things.
Philippians 4:8and to aspire to live quietly, to attend to your own matters, and to work with your own hands, as we instructed you.
1 Thessalonians 4:11For even while we were with you, we gave you this command: “If anyone is unwilling to work, he shall not eat.”
2 Thessalonians 3:10Yet we hear that some of you are leading undisciplined lives and accomplishing nothing but being busybodies.
2 Thessalonians 3:11We command and urge such people by our Lord Jesus Christ to begin working quietly to earn their own living.
2 Thessalonians 3:12If anyone does not provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
1 Timothy 5:8It instructs us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live sensible, upright, and godly lives in the present age,
Titus 2:12Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
James 4:7