To take heed means to give our attention to or to be on our guard against. There are several passages in God's word that specifically tell us to take heed.
"Take heed that ye do not your alms before men" (Matt. 6:1). "Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees" (Matt. 16:16). "Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones" (Matt. 18:10). "Take heed what ye hear" (Mark 4:24). "Take heed therefore how ye hear" (Luke 8:18). "Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness" (Luke 11:35). "Take heed and beware of covetousness" (Luke 12: 15).
"Take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness, and cares of this life" (Luke 21:34). "I have laid the foundation (Christ the Lord), and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereon" (I Cor, 13:10). "But take heed, lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to those that are weak" (I Cor. 8:9).
"Let him that thinketh he standeth, take heed lest he fall" (I Cor. 10:12). "If ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed of one another" (Gal. 5:16). "Take heed to thyself, and to the doctrine" (I Tim. 4:16). "Take heed brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God" (Heb. 3:12). "We have a more sure word of prophecy (scriptures); whereunto you do well that ye take heed" (II Peter 1:19).
Surely we ought to give our utmost to take heed, to be on our guard, to give attention to what the scriptures warn us of. The tendency of our flesh is to depart from God, and He uses these warnings to keep us from departing. --Pastor Todd Nibert
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