Hebrews 3:12

The Passion Translation

So search your hearts every day, my brothers and sisters, and make sure that none of you has evil or unbelief hiding within you. For it will lead you astray, and make you unresponsive to the living God.

Cross References

Genesis 8:21

And when Yahweh smelled the sweet fragrance of Noah’s offerings, his heart was stirred, and he said, “Never again will I curse the earth because of people, even though the imagination of their hearts are evil from their childhood; nor will I ever again destroy every living creature as I have done. I promise this:

Psalm 18:21

I will follow his commands and I’ll not sin by ceasing to follow him, no matter what.

Proverbs 1:32

Like an idiot you’ve turned away from me and chosen destruction instead. Your self-satisfied smugness will kill you.

Isaiah 59:13

We have rebelled and even tried to deny Yahweh; we have forsaken our God. Our speech stirs up oppression and revolt, and our hearts conceive, then confess, lies.

Jeremiah 11:8

But they refused to listen or change their ways. They lived in the stubbornness of their evil hearts, so I finally enforced the penalties of disobeying this covenant and its terms which I commanded them to keep.’ ”

Jeremiah 16:12

Yet you have acted even worse than your ancestors. Each of you follow the stubborn desires of your evil hearts and refuse to listen to me.

Jeremiah 17:5

Yahweh said to me: “Even a strong person is cursed when his confidence rests in his own strength. To place your confidence in the strength of man means that you are turning your heart away from me.

Jeremiah 17:9

There is nothing more deceitful than the heart of man; who can understand it? Man’s heart is sick, in need of healing.

Jeremiah 18:12

“But they will answer: ‘It’s too late! We’ll live as we choose and be just as stubborn and evil as we want to be.’ ”

Jeremiah 2:13

“My people are guilty of a double sin: they have abandoned me, the Spring of Living Water, and they have dug for themselves cisterns — cracked cisterns that hold no water.”

Jeremiah 3:17

When that day comes, they will call Jerusalem the throne of Yahweh. All nations will be drawn there to be in the presence of Yahweh. They will no longer stubbornly follow their own evil hearts.

Jeremiah 7:24

But they did not listen or obey. They followed their own stubborn plans of their evil hearts. They disrespected me and went backward, not forward.

Ezekiel 14:5

And in this way I hope to capture the hearts of the people of Israel who have all been estranged because of all their idols.’

Matthew 16:16

Simon Peter spoke up and said, “You are the Anointed One, the Son of the living God!”

Matthew 24:4

Jesus answered, “At that time deception will run rampant. So beware that you are not fooled!

Mark 13:23

Be alert, for I prophesy all this will happen!”

Mark 13:33

This is why you must be waiting, watching and praying, because no one knows when that season of time will come.”

Mark 13:9

“Be on your guard! For they will hand you over to the ruling councils, and you will be beaten in public gatherings. And you will stand trial before kings and high-ranking governmental leaders as an opportunity to testify to them on my behalf.

Luke 21:8

Jesus responded, “Deception will run rampant and many will appear on the scene, saying I have sent them, or saying about themselves, ‘I am the Messiah!’ These doomsday deceivers will say, ‘The end of the age is now here!’ But listen to me. Don’t let any of these imposters fool you.

Romans 11:21

Since God didn’t spare the natural branches that fell into unbelief, perhaps he won’t spare you either!

1 Corinthians 10:12

So beware if you think it could never happen to you, lest your pride becomes your downfall.

Colossians 2:8

Beware that no one distracts you or intimidates you in their attempt to lead you away from Christ’s fullness by pretending to be full of wisdom when they’re filled with endless arguments of human logic. For they operate with humanistic and clouded judgments based on the mindset of this world system, and not the anointed truths of the Anointed One.

1 Thessalonians 1:9

for everyone tells the story of the kind of welcome you showed us when we first came to you. And everyone knows how wonderfully you turned to God from idols to serve the true and living God.

Hebrews 10:31

It is the most terrifying thing of all to come under the judgment of the Living God!

Hebrews 10:38

And he also says, “My righteous ones will live from my faith. But if fear holds them back, my soul is not content with them!”

Hebrews 12:15

Watch over each other to make sure that no one misses the revelation of God’s grace. And make sure no one lives with a root of bitterness sprouting within them which will only cause trouble and poison the hearts of many.

Hebrews 12:22

By contrast, we have already come near to God in a totally different realm, the Zion-realm, for we have entered the city of the Living God, which is the New Jerusalem in heaven! We have joined the festal gathering of myriads of angels in their joyous celebration!

Hebrews 12:25

Make very sure that you never refuse to listen to God when he speaks! For the God who spoke on earth from Sinai is the same God who now speaks from heaven. Those who heard him speak his living Word on earth found nowhere to hide, so what chance is there for us to escape if we turn our backs on God and refuse to hear his warnings as he speaks from heaven?

Hebrews 3:1

And so, dear brothers and sisters, you are now made holy, and each of you is invited to the feast of your heavenly calling. So fasten your thoughts fully onto Jesus, whom we embrace as our Apostle and King-Priest.

Hebrews 3:10

This ignited my anger with that generation and I said about them, ‘They wander in their hearts just like they do with their feet, and they refuse to learn my ways.’

Hebrews 3:19

It is clear that they could not enter into their inheritance because they wrapped their hearts in unbelief.

Hebrews 9:14

Yet how much more will the sacred blood of the Messiah thoroughly cleanse our consciences! For by the power of the eternal Spirit he has offered himself to God as the perfect Sacrifice that now frees us from our dead works to worship and serve the living God.