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Proverbs 29:6
By transgression an evil man is snared, But the righteous sings and rejoices.
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1 Thessalonians 5 3
For when they say,“ Peace and safety!” then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape.
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Ecclesiastes 8:5-7
He who keeps his command will experience nothing harmful; And a wise man’s heart discerns both time and judgment,Because for every matter there is a time and judgment, Though the misery of man increases greatly.For he does not know what will happen; So who can tell him when it will occur?
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Luke 21:34-36
“ But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly.For it will come as a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth.Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
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Luke 12:39
But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into.
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Ecclesiastes 8:11
Because the sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
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Psalms 73:18-20
Surely You set them in slippery places; You cast them down to destruction.Oh, how they are brought to desolation, as in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors.As a dream when one awakes, So, Lord, when You awake, You shall despise their image.
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Habakkuk 1:14-17
Why do You make men like fish of the sea, Like creeping things that have no ruler over them?They take up all of them with a hook, They catch them in their net, And gather them in their dragnet. Therefore they rejoice and are glad.Therefore they sacrifice to their net, And burn incense to their dragnet; Because by them their share is sumptuous And their food plentiful.Shall they therefore empty their net, And continue to slay nations without pity?
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Luke 17:26-31
And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man:They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed.“ In that day, he who is on the housetop, and his goods are in the house, let him not come down to take them away. And likewise the one who is in the field, let him not turn back.
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Proverbs 7:22-23
Immediately he went after her, as an ox goes to the slaughter, Or as a fool to the correction of the stocks,Till an arrow struck his liver. As a bird hastens to the snare, He did not know it would cost his life.
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Proverbs 6:15
Therefore his calamity shall come suddenly; Suddenly he shall be broken without remedy.
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Psalms 11:6
Upon the wicked He will rain coals; Fire and brimstone and a burning wind Shall be the portion of their cup.
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Luke 19:42-44
saying,“ If you had known, even you, especially in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.For days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you, surround you and close you in on every side,and level you, and your children within you, to the ground; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not know the time of your visitation.”
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Luke 12:20
But God said to him,‘ Fool! This night your soul will be required of you; then whose will those things be which you have provided?’
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1 Peter 2 12
having your conduct honorable among the Gentiles, that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may, by your good works which they observe, glorify God in the day of visitation.
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Job 18:8-10
For he is cast into a net by his own feet, And he walks into a snare.The net takes him by the heel, And a snare lays hold of him.A noose is hidden for him on the ground, And a trap for him in the road.
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Isaiah 30:13
Therefore this iniquity shall be to you Like a breach ready to fall, A bulge in a high wall, Whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant.
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2 Peter 2 12
But these, like natural brute beasts made to be caught and destroyed, speak evil of the things they do not understand, and will utterly perish in their own corruption,
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2 Corinthians 6 2
For He says:“ In an acceptable time I have heard you, And in the day of salvation I have helped you.” Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.
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2 Timothy 2 26
and that they may come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him to do his will.