Hebrews 3:12

Believers must guard against an evil, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. Unbelief is a deadly spiritual danger to watch against.

Cross-references · 30

• Jer 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.
• Jer 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.
• Jer 17:9The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
• Jer 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.’”
• 1 Cor 10:12So the one who thinks he is standing firm should be careful not to fall.
• Heb 12:25See to it that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if the people did not escape when they refused Him who warned them on earth, how much less will we escape if we reject Him who warns us from heaven?
• Jer 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.”
• Heb 10:38But My righteous one will live by faith; and if he shrinks back, I will take no pleasure in him.”
• Mark 7:21–23For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,
• Jer 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.
• Heb 12:15See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God, and that no root of bitterness springs up to cause trouble and defile many.
• Matt 24:4Jesus answered, “See to it that no one deceives you.
• Prov 1:32For the waywardness of the simple will slay them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them.
• Heb 3:10Therefore I was angry with that generation, and I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known My ways.’
• Mark 13:33Be on your guard and stay alert! For you do not know when the appointed time will come.
• Jer 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.
• Jer 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.
• 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.
• Heb 2:1–3We must pay closer attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.
• Rom 11:21For if God did not spare the natural branches, He will certainly not spare you either.
• 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.
• Hos 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.”
• Job 22:17They said to God, ‘Depart from us. What can the Almighty do to us?’
• Ps 18:21For I have kept the ways of the LORD and have not wickedly departed from my God.
• 1 Th 1:9For they themselves report what kind of welcome you gave us, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God
• Mark 13:23So be on your guard; I have told you everything in advance.
• Matt 16:16Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
• Job 21:14Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.
• Gen 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.
• Isa 59:13rebelling and denying the LORD, turning away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lies from the heart.

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