Hebrews 3:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Take care, brothers and sisters, that none of you may have an evil, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. Flere versionerKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition [Therefore beware] brethren, take care, lest there be in any one of you a wicked, unbelieving heart [which refuses to cleave to, trust in, and rely on Him], leading you to turn away and desert or stand aloof from the living God. American Standard Version (1901) 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: Common English Bible Watch out, brothers and sisters, so that none of you have an evil, unfaithful heart that abandons the living God. Catholic Public Domain Version Be cautious, brothers, lest perhaps there may be, in any of you, an evil heart of unbelief, turning aside from the living God. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Take heed, brethren, lest perhaps there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, to depart from the living God. |
And when the Lord smelled the pleasing odor, the Lord said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of humans, for the inclination of the human heart is evil from youth; nor will I ever again destroy every living creature as I have done.
For I have kept the ways of the Lord and have not wickedly departed from my God.
For waywardness kills the simple, and the complacency of fools destroys them;
transgressing and denying the Lord and turning away from following our God, talking oppression and revolt, conceiving lying words and uttering them from the heart.
Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but everyone walked in the stubbornness of an evil will. So I brought upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they did not.
and because you have behaved worse than your ancestors, for here you are, every one of you, following your stubborn evil will, refusing to listen to me.
Thus says the Lord: Cursed are those who trust in mere mortals and make mere flesh their strength, whose hearts turn away from the Lord.
But they say, “It is no use! We will follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of our evil will.”
for my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living water, and dug out cisterns for themselves, cracked cisterns that can hold no water.
At that time Jerusalem shall be called the throne of the Lord, and all nations shall gather to it, to the presence of the Lord in Jerusalem, and they shall no longer stubbornly follow their own evil will.
Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but, in the stubbornness of their evil will, they walked in their own counsels and looked backward rather than forward.
in order that I may take hold of the hearts of the house of Israel, all of whom are estranged from me through their idols.
When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, “Go, take for yourself a wife of prostitution and have children of prostitution, for the land commits great prostitution by forsaking the Lord.”
“As for yourselves, beware, for they will hand you over to councils, and you will be beaten in synagogues, and you will stand before governors and kings because of me, as a testimony to them.
And he said, “Beware that you are not led astray, for many will come in my name and say, ‘I am he!’ and, ‘The time is near!’ Do not go after them.
Watch out that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental principles of the world, and not according to Christ.
For they report about us what kind of welcome we had among you and how you turned to God from idols to serve a living and true God
but my righteous one will live by faith. My soul takes no pleasure in anyone who shrinks back.”
See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God, that no root of bitterness springs up and causes trouble and through it many become defiled.
But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering,
See that you do not refuse the one who is speaking, for if they did not escape when they refused the one who warned them on earth, how much less will we escape if we reject the one who warns from heaven!
Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, partners in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession,
for forty years. Therefore I was angry with that generation, and I said, ‘They always go astray in their hearts, and they have not known my ways.’
how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to worship the living God!