Joshua 23:11-13

How closely connected sin is with its sure punishment. My backslidings shall correct thee! The very thing which we lean upon for confidence or comfort; that above every other evil, shall be sure to pierce us through. In the unhappy, and I had almost said unnatural, coalition sometimes made between believers and unbelievers, what sorrow hath sprung out of them? 'There is death in the pot. Snares, and traps, and scourges, and thorns, we make for ourselves. The root is laid in unbelief, and it will be sure to bring forth and blossom with deadly fruit. Lord, keep thy people from themselves and the perversity of their ways, for they are well kept who are preserved by thee. Joh_17:11; Joh_17:15.