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 17:5Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.
• Jer 7:24But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
• Jer 17:9The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
• Jer 18:12And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.
• 1 Cor 10:12Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
• Heb 12:25See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:
• Jer 11:8Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their evil heart: therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do: but they did them not.
• Heb 10:38Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
• Mark 7:21–23For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
• Jer 16:12And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me:
• Heb 12:15Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
• Matt 24:4And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
• Prov 1:32For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
• Heb 3:10Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.
• Mark 13:33Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.
• Jer 3:17At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart.
• Jer 2:13For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
• Luke 21:8And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time draweth near: go ye not therefore after them.
• Heb 2:1–3Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
• Rom 11:21For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
• Mark 13:9But take heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to councils; and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten: and ye shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them.
• Hos 1:2The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the LORD.
• Job 22:17Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?
• 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 shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;
• Mark 13:23But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all things.
• Matt 16:16And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.
• Job 21:14Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
• Gen 8:21And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
• Isa 59:13In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

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