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 17:5Yahweh says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from Yahweh.
• Jer 7:24But they didn’t listen nor turn their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
• Jer 17:9The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?
• Jer 18:12But they say, ‘It is in vain; for we will walk after our own devices, and we will do everyone after the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”
• 1 Cor 10:12Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn’t fall.
• Heb 12:25See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,
• Jer 11:8Yet they didn’t obey, nor turn their ear, but walked everyone in the stubbornness of their evil heart: therefore I brought on them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they didn’t do them.’”
• Heb 10:38But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”
• Mark 7:21–23For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,
• Jer 16:12and you have done evil more than your fathers; for, behold, you walk every one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you don’t listen to me.
• Heb 12:15looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it;
• Matt 24:4Jesus answered them, “Be careful that no one leads you astray.
• Prov 1:32For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.
• Heb 3:10Therefore I was displeased with that generation, and said, ‘They always err in their heart, but they didn’t know my ways;’
• Mark 13:33Watch, keep alert, and pray; for you don’t know when the time is.
• Jer 3:17At that time they will call Jerusalem ‘Yahweh’s Throne;’ and all the nations will be gathered to it, to Yahweh’s name, to Jerusalem. They will no longer walk after the stubbornness of their evil heart.
• Jer 2:13“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
• Luke 21:8He said, “Watch out that you don’t get led astray, for many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he,’ and, ‘The time is at hand.’ Therefore don’t follow them.
• Heb 2:1–3Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.
• Rom 11:21for if God didn’t spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.
• Mark 13:9But watch yourselves, for they will deliver you up to councils. You will be beaten in synagogues. You will stand before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them.
• Hos 1:2When Yahweh spoke at first by Hosea, Yahweh said to Hosea, “Go, take for yourself a wife of prostitution and children of unfaithfulness; for the land commits great adultery, forsaking Yahweh.”
• Job 22:17who said to God, ‘Depart from us;’ and, ‘What can the Almighty do for us?’
• Ps 18:21For I have kept the ways of Yahweh, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
• 1 Th 1:9For they themselves report concerning us what kind of a reception we had from you; and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and true God,
• Mark 13:23But you watch. “Behold, I have told you all things beforehand.
• Matt 16:16Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
• Job 21:14They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.
• Gen 8:21Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.
• Isa 59:13transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

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