KJV King James Version
Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Hebrews 3:12
Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God.
WEB World English Bible
Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;
ASV American Standard Version
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:
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
See, brethren, lest there shall be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in the falling away from the living God,
Surrounding context — Hebrews 3
9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in [their] heart; and they have not known my ways.
11 So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)
12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
15 While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
Βλέπετε,G991 · blepōto seeἀδελφοί,G80 · adelphosbrotherμήποτεG3361 · mēnotἔσταιG1510 · eimito beἔνG1722 · enin/on/amongτινιG5100 · tisoneὑμῶνG4771 · suyouκαρδίαG2588 · kardiaheartπονηρὰG4190 · ponērosevil/badἀπιστίαςG570 · apistiaunbeliefἐνG1722 · enin/on/amongτῷG3588 · hothe/this/whoἀποστῆναιG868 · aphistēmito leaveἀπὸG575 · apoaway fromθεοῦG2316 · theosGodζῶντος·G2198 · zaōto live
Cross-references
Jeremiah 17:5Thus saith the LORD; Cursed [be] the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.Jeremiah 7:24But 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.Jeremiah 17:9The heart [is] deceitful above all [things], and desperately wicked: who can know it?Jeremiah 18:12And 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.1 Corinthians 10:12Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.Hebrews 12:25See 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:Hebrews 10:38Now the just shall live by faith: but if [any man] draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.Jeremiah 11:8Yet 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; but they did [them] not.Mark 7:21-23For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,Jeremiah 16:12And 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:Matthew 24:4And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.Proverbs 1:32For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.Hebrews 12:15Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble [you], and thereby many be defiled;Mark 13:33Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.Hebrews 3:10Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in [their] heart; and they have not known my ways.Jeremiah 3:17At 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 imagination of their evil heart.Jeremiah 2:13For 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.Job 22:17Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?
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