15 Bible Verses about God Forbidding

Then He asked, “Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”

And He said to Adam, “Because you listened to your wife’s voice and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘Do not eat from it’:

The ground is cursed because of you.
You will eat from it by means of painful labor
all the days of your life.

Though these nations you are about to drive out listen to fortune-tellers and diviners, the Lord your God has not permitted you to do this.

They served idols, although the Lord had told them, “You must not do this.”

He commands the sun not to shine
and seals off the stars.

No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to humanity. God is faithful, and He will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation He will also provide a way of escape so that you are able to bear it.

the women should be silent in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak, but should be submissive, as the law also says.

Then He said, “Do not lay a hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your only son from Me.”

The Lord appeared to him and said, “Do not go down to Egypt. Live in the land that I tell you about;

But you did not go near the Ammonites’ land, all along the bank of the Jabbok River, the cities of the hill country, or any place that the Lord our God had forbidden.

and that he has cheated me and changed my wages 10 times. But God has not let him harm me.

Then God said to Balaam, “You are not to go with them. You are not to curse this people, for they are blessed.”

So Balaam got up the next morning and said to Balak’s officials, “Go back to your land, because the Lord has refused to let me go with you.”

He allowed no one to oppress them;
He rebuked kings on their behalf:

“But the Lord said to me, ‘Tell them: Don’t go up and fight, for I am not with you to keep you from being defeated by your enemies.’