Hebrews 3:12
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God.”
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“See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.”
King James Version · Public Domain“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:”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“See, brethren, lest there shall be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in the falling away from the living God,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Hebrews 3:12 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 8:21When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.
- Job 21:14Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.
- Job 22:17They said to God, ‘Depart from us. What can the Almighty do to us?’
- Psalms 18:21For I have kept the ways of the LORD and have not wickedly departed from my God.
- Proverbs 1:32For the waywardness of the simple will slay them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them.
- Isaiah 59:13rebelling and denying the LORD, turning away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lies from the heart.
- Jeremiah 2:13“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns— broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
- Jeremiah 3:17At that time Jerusalem will be called The Throne of the LORD, and all the nations will be gathered in Jerusalem to honor the name of the LORD. They will no longer follow the stubbornness of their evil hearts.
- Jeremiah 7:24Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but they followed the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.
- Jeremiah 11:8Yet they would not obey or incline their ears, but each one followed the stubbornness of his evil heart. So I brought on them all the curses of this covenant I had commanded them to follow but they did not keep.”
- Jeremiah 16:12And you have done more evil than your fathers. See how each of you follows the stubbornness of his evil heart instead of obeying Me.
- Jeremiah 17:5This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes the flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.
- Jeremiah 17:9The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
- Jeremiah 18:12But they will reply, ‘It is hopeless. We will follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”
- Ezekiel 14:5so that I may take hold of the hearts of the people of Israel. For because of their idols, they are all estranged from Me.’
- Hosea 1:2When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, He told him, “Go, take a prostitute as your wife and have children of adultery, because this land is flagrantly prostituting itself by departing from the LORD.”
- Matthew 16:16Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
- Matthew 24:4Jesus answered, “See to it that no one deceives you.
- Mark 7:21For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,
- Mark 13:9So be on your guard. You will be delivered over to the councils and beaten in the synagogues. On My account you will stand before governors and kings as witnesses to them.
- Mark 13:23So be on your guard; I have told you everything in advance.
- Mark 13:33Be on your guard and stay alert! For you do not know when the appointed time will come.
- Luke 21:8Jesus answered, “See to it that you are not deceived. For many will come in My name, claiming, ‘I am He,’ and, ‘The time is near.’ Do not follow them.
- Romans 11:21For if God did not spare the natural branches, He will certainly not spare you either.
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