the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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Hebrews 3:12
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So, brothers and sisters, be careful that none of you has the evil thoughts that cause so much doubt that you stop following the living God.
Take hede brethren that therbe in none of you an evyll herte in vnbeleve that he shuld departe from ye lyvynge god:
Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there will be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;
Take care, brothers and sisters, that there will not be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart that falls away from the living God.
So brothers and sisters, be careful that none of you has an evil, unbelieving heart that will turn you away from the living God.
Take heed, brothers, lest perhaps there shall be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God:
Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.
Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there will be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;
Take heed, brethren, left there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God:
see to it, brethren, that there is never in any one of you--as perhaps there may be--a sinful and unbelieving heart, manifesting itself in revolt from the ever-living God.
Britheren, se ye, lest perauenture in ony of you be an yuel herte of vnbileue, to departe fro the lyuynge God.
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:
See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God.
My friends, watch out! Don't let evil thoughts or doubts make any of you turn from the living God.
Take care, brothers and sisters, that there not be in any one of you a wicked, unbelieving heart [which refuses to trust and rely on the Lord, a heart] that turns away from the living God.
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:
My brothers, take care that there is not by chance in any one of you an evil heart without belief, turning away from the living God:
Watch out, brothers, so that there will not be in any one of you an evil heart lacking trust, which could lead you to apostatize from the living God!
See, brethren, lest there be in any one of you a wicked heart of unbelief, in turning away from [the] living God.
See to it, my brothers, that no evil, unbelieving heart is found in any of you, as shown by your turning away from the living God.
Beware, therefore, my brethren, lest there be in any man among you an evil heart which believeth not, and ye depart from Aloha the living.
Beware, therefore, my brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart that believeth not, and ye depart from the living God.
Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an euill heart of vnbeleefe, in departing from the liuing God.
Be careful then, dear brothers and sisters. Make sure that your own hearts are not evil and unbelieving, turning you away from the living God.
Christian brothers, be careful that not one of you has a heart so bad that it will not believe and will turn away from the living God.
Take care, brothers and sisters, that none of you may have an evil, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.
Take heede, brethren, least at any time there be in any of you an euill heart, and vnfaithfull, to depart away from the liuing God.
Take heed therefore, my brethren, lest perhaps there is a man among you who has an evil heart and is not a believer, and you will be cut off from the living God.
Be taking heed, brethren, lest at any time, there shall be in any one of you, a wicked heart of unbelief, in revolting from a Living God.
Take heed, brethren, lest perhaps there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, to depart from the living God.
Take heede brethren, lest at any tyme there be in you an euyll heart of vnbeliefe, to depart from the lyuyng God:
My friends, be careful that none of you have a heart so evil and unbelieving that you will turn away from the living God.
Watch out, brothers and sisters, so that there won’t be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.
Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
Watch out, brothers, lest there be in some of you an evil, unbelieving heart, with the result that you fall away from the living God.
Watch, brothers, lest perhaps there shall be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief in withdrawing from the living God.
See, brethren, lest there shall be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in the falling away from the living God,
Take hede brethren, that there be not in eny of you an euell hert of vnbeleue, to departe from the lyuynge God:
Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you such incredulity as to make you desert the living God.
So watch your step, friends. Make sure there's no evil unbelief lying around that will trip you up and throw you off course, diverting you from the living God. For as long as it's still God's Today, keep each other on your toes so sin doesn't slow down your reflexes. If we can only keep our grip on the sure thing we started out with, we're in this with Christ for the long haul. These words keep ringing in our ears: Today, please listen; don't turn a deaf ear as in the bitter uprising.
See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has an evil, unbelieving heart that forsakes the living God.
Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God;
So, watch out for yourselves, cowboys. Make sure your hearts are not turning away from God and the way he told you to ride.
Take care, brethren, that there not be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart that falls away from the living God.
See to it brothers, that there not be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart that falls away from the living God.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Take: Hebrews 2:1-3, Hebrews 12:15, Matthew 24:4, Mark 13:9, Mark 13:23, Mark 13:33, Luke 21:8, Romans 11:21, 1 Corinthians 10:12
an: Hebrews 3:10, Genesis 8:21, Jeremiah 2:13, Jeremiah 3:17, Jeremiah 7:24, Jeremiah 11:8, Jeremiah 16:12, Jeremiah 17:9, Jeremiah 18:12, Mark 7:21-23
in: Hebrews 10:38, Hebrews 12:25, Job 21:14, Job 22:17, Psalms 18:21, Proverbs 1:32, Isaiah 59:13, Jeremiah 17:5, Hosea 1:2
the: 1 Thessalonians 1:9
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 1:32 - General Deuteronomy 4:23 - heed Deuteronomy 11:16 - Take heed Deuteronomy 29:18 - among you man Deuteronomy 30:17 - heart 2 Kings 17:14 - did not believe Psalms 78:22 - General Psalms 106:24 - they believed Proverbs 14:14 - backslider Jeremiah 5:23 - a revolting Ezekiel 11:21 - whose Ezekiel 14:5 - estranged Daniel 9:5 - departing Malachi 2:8 - ye are Matthew 6:21 - there Matthew 6:30 - O ye Matthew 13:58 - General Matthew 15:8 - but Matthew 21:32 - repented John 3:19 - this John 5:44 - can John 16:9 - General John 20:25 - Except Acts 2:40 - Save Acts 13:40 - Beware Acts 14:15 - the living Romans 2:8 - but obey Romans 10:10 - For with Romans 11:20 - because 1 Timothy 3:15 - the living 1 Timothy 6:5 - men Hebrews 3:8 - Harden Hebrews 4:2 - not being Hebrews 4:11 - lest Hebrews 11:6 - without Hebrews 12:22 - of the Hebrews 13:22 - suffer 1 John 5:10 - hath made
Cross-References
Then the LORD God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him."
The man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for the man there was not found a helper fit for him.
and the rib which the LORD God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man.
Then the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this that you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent beguiled me, and I ate."
I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel."
The man called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.
And the LORD God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins, and clothed them.
He drove out the man; and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.
if I have concealed my transgressions from men, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom,
When a man's folly brings his way to ruin, his heart rages against the LORD.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Take heed, brethren,.... This exhortation is grounded upon the state and case of their ancestors before given, as a warning and caution to the then present Hebrews; and whom the apostle styles "brethren", to show that he had no hard thoughts of them, and that his jealousy was a godly one, and not an evil suspicion; and may teach us that all exhortations, admonitions, and reproofs should be given in love:
lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief; or such an evil heart, in which unbelief prevails, and is predominant: there is in every man, whether a profane sinner, or an hypocritical professor, an evil heart, and an unbelieving one; and there is unbelief in regenerate persons, which when cherished and encouraged by them is a great evil, and should be avoided; and this sin is aggravated by the many instances of God's grace, and by the many declarations of it, and by the exceeding great and precious promises God has made, and by the great discoveries of his love to their souls in times past: and this sin, when it gets ahead, has a very great influence on the heart, to make it evil; and unbelief was the first sin of man, at least it very early appeared; it is the mother sin, and puts persons upon every sin; it defiles the conscience, hardens the heart, renders the word unprofitable, unfit for duty and makes men unstable, and therefore to be shunned; and especially because of the dreadful effect following:
in departing from the living God; that is, from Christ, who is the Son over his own house, and whose voice is to be heard; for of no other is the apostle speaking in the context; and who is not only the Son of the living God, but he is himself the living God; he is life in himself, and is the fountain and author of life, natural, spiritual, and eternal. This is mentioned to exalt the person of Christ, the apostle and high priest of our profession; and to discover the greatness and heinousness of the sin of such as depart from him and his Gospel, and to deter men from it: there is a final and total departure from Christ, from his Gospel and ordinances, from his people, and from a former profession of faith, which is never to be found in true believers; for they are as Mount Zion, which can never be removed; but there is a partial departure, and for a while, which they are liable to, and is attended with bad effects to them, and should be guarded against: saints should take heed of themselves, and of their hearts, and of the unbelief of them, that they do not in the least depart from Christ, by letting go their hold of him, or by a non-exercise of faith upon him; and this should be the care and concern of every individual member of the church, and at all times; unbelief is very dishonourable to God and Christ; contradicts the word and promises of God; is uncomfortable to the saints; it is a sin that very easily besets, and is very provoking to God, and is highly resented by him.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Take heed, brethren - In view of the conduct of the rebellious Jews, and of their fearful doom, be on your guard lest you also be found to have had the same feelings of rebellion and unbelief. See to it, that under the new dispensation, and in the enjoyment of the privileges of the gospel, you be not found to manifest such feelings as shall exclude you from the heavenly world. The âprincipleâ has been settled by their unbelief that they who oppose God will be excluded from his rest. That may be shown under all dispensations, and in all circumstances, and there is not less danger of it under the gospel than there was when the fathers were conducted to the promised land. You are traveling through a wilderness - the barren wilderness of this world. You are exposed to trials and temptations. You meet with many a deadly and mighty foe. You have hearts prone to apostasy and sin. You are seeking a land of promise; a land of rest. You are surrounded by the wonders of Almighty power, and by the proofs of infinite beneficence. Disobedience and rebellion in you will as certainly exclude you from heaven as their rebellion did them from the promised land; and as their great sin was unbelief, be on your guard lest you manifest the same.
An evil heart of unbelief - An evil, unbelieving heart. The word âunbeliefâ is used to qualify the word âheart,â by a Hebraism - a mode of speech that is common in the New Testament. An unbelieving heart was the cause of âtheirâ apostasy, and what worked their ruin will produce ours. The root of their evil was âa want of confidence in Godâ - and this is what is meant here by a heart of unbelief. The great difficulty on earth everywhere is a âwant of confidence in Godâ - and this has produced all the ills that man has ever suffered. It led to the first apostasy; and it has led to every other apostasy - and will continue to produce the same effects to the end of the world. The apostle says that this heart of unbelief is âevil.â Men often feel that it is a matter of little consequence whether they have faith or not, provided their conduct is right; and hence, they do not see or admit the propriety of what is said about the consequences of unbelief in the Scriptures. But what do they say about a want of confidence between a husband and wife?
Are there no evils in that? What husband can sleep with quietness on his pillow, if he has no confidence in the virtue of his wife? What child can have peace who has no confidence in a parent? How can there be prosperity in a community where there is no confidence in a bank, or an insurance office, or where one merchant has no confidence in another; where a neighbor has no confidence in his neighbor; where the sick have no confidence in a physician, and where in general all confidence is broken up between man and man? If I wished to produce the deepest distress in any community, and had the power, I would produce the same want of confidence between man and man which there is now between man and his Maker. I would thus take away sleep from the pillow of every husband and wife; every parent and child; and make every man wretched with the feeling that all the property which he had was insecure. Among people, nothing is seen to be productive of greater evil than a want of confidence or faith - and why should not the same evil exist in the divine administration? And if want of confidence produces such results between man and man, why should it not produce similar, or greater, miseries where it occurs in relation to God? There is not an evil that man endures which might not be alleviated or removed by confidence in God; and hence one great object of the Christian religion is, to restore to man his lost confidence in the God that made him.
In departing from the living God - Manifested in departing from him; or leading to a departure from him. The idea is, that such a heart of unbelief would be connected with apostasy from God. All apostasy first exists in the heart, and then is manifested in the life. They who indulge in unbelief in any form, or in regard to any subject, should remember that this is the great source of all alienation from God, and that if indulged it will lead to complete apostasy. They who wish to live a life of piety should keep the heart right. He that lives âby the faith of the Son of Godâ is safe; and none is safe but he.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Hebrews 3:12. Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you — Take warning by those disobedient Israelites; they were brought out of the house of bondage, and had the fullest promise of a land of prosperity and rest. By their disobedience they came short of it, and fell in the wilderness. Ye have been brought from the bondage of sin, and have a most gracious promise of an everlasting inheritance among the saints in light; through unbelief and disobedience they lost their rest, through the same ye may lose yours. An evil heart of unbelief will head away from the living God. What was possible in their case, is possible in yours. The apostle shows here five degrees of apostasy:
1. Consenting to sin, being deceived by its solicitations.
2. Hardness of heart, through giving way to sin.
3. Unbelief in consequence of this hardness which leads them to call even the truth of the Gospel in question.
4. This unbelief causing them to speak evil of the Gospel, and the provision God has made for the salvation of their souls.
5. Apostasy itself, or falling off from the living God; and thus extinguishing all the light that was in them, and finally grieving the Spirit of God, so that he takes his flight, and leaves them to a seared conscience and reprobate mind.
See Leigh. He who begins to give the least way to sin is in danger of final apostasy; the best remedy against this is to get the evil heart removed, as one murderer in the house is more to be dreaded than ten without.
