Here are 37 Bible verses about limitations from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible (King James Version), sorted from most to least relevant.
Lamentations 3:37 KJV
Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?
Job 14:5 KJV
Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
Proverbs 17:27 KJV
Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
Matthew 18:21 KJV
He that hath knowledge spareth his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit.
Daniel 2:44 KJV
Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?
Romans 15:20 KJV
And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
Exodus 19:23 KJV
Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man’s foundation:
Psalms 78:41 KJV
And Moses said unto the LORD, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it.
Ecclesiastes 5:2 KJV
Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
Lamentations 3:25 KJV
Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.
Psalms 147:5 KJV
The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
Romans 6:19 KJV
Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite.
John 3:34 KJV
I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
2 Corinthians 10:15 KJV
For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.
Job 11:7 KJV
Not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other men’s labours; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly,
Lamentations 3:21 KJV
Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?
Psalms 74:17 KJV
This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
Ephesians 3:19 KJV
Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.
2 Corinthians 10:13 KJV
And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
Lamentations 5:7 KJV
But we will not boast of things without our measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God hath distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you.
Proverbs 8:29 KJV
Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
Lamentations 3:26 KJV
When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
Lamentations 3:22 KJV
It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
Ecclesiastes 7:20 KJV
It is of the LORD’S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
Micah 2:13 KJV
For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
Job 38:10 KJV
The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the LORD on the head of them.
Lamentations 4:8 KJV
And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,
1 Corinthians 8:9 KJV
Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.
Psalms 119:96 KJV
But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.
Isaiah 54:3 KJV
I have seen an end of all perfection: but thy commandment is exceeding broad.
Ezekiel 28:2 KJV
For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.
Acts 17:26 KJV
Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:
Job 26:10 KJV
And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
Psalms 119:97 KJV
He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.
Lamentations 5:10 KJV
O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
Ecclesiastes 7:19 KJV
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
Lamentations 3:23 KJV
Wisdom strengtheneth the wise more than ten mighty men which are in the city.
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