Hebrews 3:12
Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
KJV
βλέπετε, ἀδελφοί, μήποτε ἔσται ἔν τινι ὑμῶν καρδία πονηρὰ ἀπιστίας ἐν τῷ ἀποστῆναι ἀπὸ θεοῦ ζῶντος,
Greek NT
Videte fratres, ne forte sit in aliquo vestrum cor malum incredulitatis, discedendi a Deo vivo :
Vulgate
Take heed, brethren, lest haply there shall be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God:
ASV
Take heed, brethren, lest perhaps there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, to depart from the living God.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
15 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
βλέπω
blepo
verb · 132×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
ζάω
zao
verb · 140×
θεός
theos
noun · 1311×
καρδία
kardia
noun · 156×
μήποτε
mepote
adverb · 25×
πονηρός
poneros
adjective · 77×
τὶς
tis
indefinite_pronoun · 527×
ἀδελφός
adelphos
noun · 343×
ἀπιστία
apistia
noun · 11×
ἀπό
apo
preposition · 640×
ἀφίστημι
aphistemi
verb · 14×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὑμεῖς
umeis
pronoun · 1828×
Themes
Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
1. Paul, having treated of hope, and having said that We are His house, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end Hebrews 3:6; next shows that we ought to look forward with firmness, and he proves this from the Scriptures. But be attentive, because he has expressed this in a manner somewhat difficult and not readily to be comprehended. And t…
And, just as it has pleased God to begin this work of grace in us by the proclamation of the gospel, so God preserves, continues, and completes this work by the hearing of the gospel, by meditation on it, by its exhortations, threats, and promises, and also by the use of the sacraments.
Cross-references
- 1Cor 10:12 — Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
- 1John 5:10 — He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.
- 1Thess 1:9 — For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;
- 1Tim 3:15 — But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
- 1Tim 6:5 — Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.
- Acts 2:40 — And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.
- Acts 13:40 — Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets;
- Dan 9:5 — We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:
- Deut 1:32 — Yet in this thing ye did not believe the LORD your God,
- Deut 4:23 — Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the LORD thy God hath forbidden th
- Deut 11:16 — Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;
- Deut 29:18 — Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a
- Deut 30:17 — But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;
- Gen 8:21 — And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will
- Heb 2:1 — Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
- Heb 3:8 — Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
- Heb 3:10 — Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.
- Heb 4:11 — Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
- Heb 10:38 — Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
- Heb 11:6 — But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
- Heb 12:15 — Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
- Heb 12:15 — Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
- Heb 12:25 — See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:
- Hos 1:2 — The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from
- Isa 59:13 — In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
- Isa 59:13 — In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
- Jer 2:13 — For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
- Jer 3:17 — At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imaginat
- Jer 7:24 — But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
- Jer 11:8 — Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their evil heart: therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do:
- Jer 16:12 — And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me:
- Jer 17:5 — Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.
- Jer 17:9 — The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
- Jer 17:9 — The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
- Jer 18:12 — And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.
- Job 21:14 — Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
- Job 22:17 — Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?
- John 3:19 — And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
- John 16:9 — Of sin, because they believe not on me;
- John 20:25 — The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the LORD. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and th