Hebrews 3:12

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

11 So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)

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

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

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

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God.
KJV
Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
WEB
Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;
ASV
Take heed, brethren, lest haply there shall be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God:
DARBY
See, brethren, lest there be in any one of you a wicked heart of unbelief, in turning away from [the] living God.
BLB
See to it, brothers, lest ever there will be in any of you⁺ an evil heart of unbelief in the falling away from the living God.
ÅB
Se til, brødre, at det ikke i noen av dere er et ondt, vantro hjerte, så han faller fra den levende Gud;
OTB
Se til, brødre og søstre, at ingen av dere har et ondt, vantro hjerte som vender seg bort fra den levende Gud.
B1930
Se til, brødre, at det ikke i nogen av eder er et ondt, vantro hjerte, så han faller fra den levende Gud;

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

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.

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  • 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.

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  • Jeremiah 17:9

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

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  • 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.

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  • 1 Corinthians 10:12

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

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  • 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:

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  • Hebrews 10:38

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

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  • Mark 7:21–23

    For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

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