Hebrews 3:12

Hebrews 3:12 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
• New International Version (NIV)See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God;

Context of Hebrews 3:12

10although they had seen what I had done for 40 years. That is why I was angry with those people. So I said, ‘Their hearts continue to stray, and they have not learned my ways.’ 11So I angrily took a solemn oath that they would never enter my place of rest.” Be careful, brothers and sisters, that none of you ever develop a wicked, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. 13Encourage each other every day while you have the opportunity. If you do this, none of you will be deceived by sin and become stubborn. 14After all, we will remain Christ’s partners only if we continue to hold on to our original confidence until the end.

Hebrews 3:12 word by word

Βλέπετε, ἀδελφοί, μήποτε ἔσται ἔν τινι ὑμῶν καρδία πονηρὰ ἀπιστίας ἐν τῷ ἀποστῆναι ἀπὸ θεοῦ ζῶντος·Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Take heedβλέπωblepō · to seeG991
• brethrenἀδελφόςadelphos · brotherG80
• lestμήποτεmēpote mē pote · lestG3379
• there beεἰμίeimi · to beG1510
• inἐνen · in/on/amongG1722
• anyτιςtis · oneG5100
• of youσύsu · youG4771
• anκαρδίαkardia · heartG2588
• evilπονηρόςponēros · evil/badG4190
• of unbeliefἀπιστίαapistia · unbeliefG570
• departingἀφίστημιaphistēmi · to leaveG868
• fromἀπόapo · away fromG575
• the livingζάωzaō · to liveG2198
• Godθεόςtheos · GodG2316
• ·ὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588

Cross-references for Hebrews 3:12

• Hebrews 2:1For this reason we must pay closer attention to what we have heard. Then we won’t drift away ⌞from the truth⌟.
• Hebrews 12:15Make sure that everyone has kindness from God so that bitterness doesn’t take root and grow up to cause trouble that corrupts many of you.
• Matthew 24:4Jesus answered them, “Be careful not to let anyone deceive you.
• Mark 13:9“Be on your guard! People will hand you over to the Jewish courts and whip you in their synagogues. You will stand in front of governors and kings to testify to them because of me.
• Luke 21:8Jesus said, “Be careful that you are not deceived. Many will come using my name. They will say, ‘I am he!’ and ‘The time is near.’ Don’t follow them!
• Romans 11:21If God didn’t spare the natural branches, he won’t spare you, either.
• 1 Corinthians 10:12So, people who think they are standing firmly should be careful that they don’t fall.
• Hebrews 3:10although they had seen what I had done for 40 years. That is why I was angry with those people. So I said, ‘Their hearts continue to stray, and they have not learned my ways.’
• Genesis 8:21The Lord smelled the soothing aroma. He said to himself, “I will never again curse the ground because of humans, even though from birth their hearts are set on nothing but evil. I will never again kill every living creature as I have just done.
• Jeremiah 2:13“My people have done two things wrong. They have abandoned me, the fountain of life-giving water. They have also dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that can’t hold water.
• Jeremiah 3:17At that time they will call Jerusalem the throne of the Lord. All nations will gather in Jerusalem because the name of the Lord will be found there. They will no longer follow their own stubborn, evil ways.
• Jeremiah 7:24But they didn’t obey me or pay attention to me. They followed their own plans and their stubborn, evil ways. They went backward and not forward.
• Jeremiah 11:8But they didn’t obey me or pay attention to me. They followed their own stubborn, evil ways. So I punished them, because they did not keep all the terms of the promise, the terms that I commanded them to keep.”
• Jeremiah 16:12You have done worse than your ancestors. All of you are following your own stubborn, evil ways that keep you from obeying me.
• Jeremiah 17:9“The human mind is the most deceitful of all things. It is incurable. No one can understand how deceitful it is.
• Jeremiah 18:12“But they will answer, ‘It’s useless! We’ll live the way we want to. We’ll go our own stubborn, evil ways.’

Commentaries on Hebrews 3:12

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 12Take 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…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 12Take 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 “principle” has been settled by their unbelief that they who oppose God…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 7-13Verses 7-13 Days of temptation are often days of provocation. But to provoke God, when he is letting us see that we entirely depend and live upon him, is a provocation indeed. The hardening of the heart is the spring of all other sins. The sins of others, especially of our relations, should be warnings to us. All sin, especially sin committed by God's professing, privileged people, not only provokes God, but it grieves him. God is loth to destroy any in…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 12heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God: An evil heart stubbornly resists the Lord because of unbelief, leading a person to turn away from the living God.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1212. Take heed--to be joined with "wherefore," He 3:7. lest there be--Greek (indicative), "lest there shall be"; lest there be, as I fear there is; implying that it is not merely a possible contingency, but that there is ground for thinking it will be so. in any--"in any one of you." Not merely ought all in general be on their guard, but they ought to be so concerned for the safety of each one member, as not to suffer any one to perish through their…Read the comment

Topics related to Hebrews 3:12

• Apostasy
• Backsliders
• Procrastination
• Reprobacy
• Self-Will
• Symbols and Similitudes
• Unbelief
• Watchfulness

In the dictionaries

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• Apostle
• Moses
• Unbelief
• Apostasy; Apostate
• Congregation
• Faint
• Faithful; Faithfulness
• Hap; Haply

Commentaries on Hebrews 3

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings