"Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God." — Hebrews 3:12

Hebrews 3:12 · KJV

“Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.”

— Hebrews 3:12

So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.) {They...: Gr. If they shall enter}

But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

Hebrews 3 — Context

Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in {their} heart; and they have not known my ways.

So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.) {They...: Gr. If they shall enter}

Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;

Cross References

Jeremiah 17:5

Thus saith the LORD; Cursed {be} the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.

Jeremiah 7:24

But 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. {imagination: or, stubbornness} {went: Heb. were}

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart {is} deceitful above all {things}, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Jeremiah 18:12

And 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 Corinthians 10:12

Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.

Hebrews 12:25

See 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:

Hebrews 10:38

Now the just shall live by faith: but if {any man} draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.

Jeremiah 11:8

Yet 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. {imagination: or, stubbornness}