Hebrews 12:15
Greek Text— Hebrews 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,
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and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.
For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”
He said to them, “Set your heart to all the words which I testify to you today, which you shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.
One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.
You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship do righteousness and iniquity have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?
The secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.
But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.
My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.
Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If therefore you won’t watch, I will come as a thief, and you won’t know what hour I will come upon you.
He spoke to the children of Israel, saying, “When your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, ‘What do these stones mean?’
I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.
I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.
Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don’t forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.
The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?
Jesus answered them, “Be careful that no one leads you astray.
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.
Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;
My son, let them not depart from your eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion:
But they didn’t listen or turn their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.
Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.
Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.
You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.
My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching:
Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;
lest there should be among you man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart turns away today from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that produces bitter poison;
“Now therefore write this song for yourselves, and teach it to the children of Israel. Put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.
My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.
Yahweh says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man, relies on strength of flesh, and whose heart departs from Yahweh.
But they say, ‘It is in vain; for we will walk after our own plans, and we will each follow the stubbornness of his evil heart.’ ”
but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
I don’t reject the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!”
Be very careful, for you saw no kind of form on the day that Yahweh spoke to you in Horeb out of the middle of the fire,
Be careful, lest you forget the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he made with you, and make yourselves a carved image in the form of anything which Yahweh your God has forbidden you.
Yet they didn’t obey, nor turn their ear, but everyone walked 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.’ ”
For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.
Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain,
Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.
A little yeast grows through the whole lump.
Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.
See 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,
but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior;
I am coming quickly! Hold firmly that which you have, so that no one takes your crown.
Whoever rebels against your commandment, and doesn’t listen to your words in all that you command him shall himself be put to death. Only be strong and courageous.”
“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t hold water.
Watch, keep alert, and pray; for you don’t know when the time is.
Be careful therefore how you hear. For whoever has, to him will be given; and whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he thinks he has.”
Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”
Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?
Yet I had planted you a noble vine, a pure and faithful seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?
but while people slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel weeds also among the wheat, and went away.
Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him.
Great fear came on the whole assembly, and on all who heard these things.
For I see that you are in the poison of bitterness and in the bondage of iniquity.”
Pay attention to yourself and to your teaching. Continue in these things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.
Let’s fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest.
Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without defect and blameless in his sight.
Watch yourselves, that we don’t lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.
“Be careful to do all things that I have said to you; and don’t invoke the name of other gods or even let them be heard out of your mouth.
Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children—
Joshua said, “Why have you troubled us? Yahweh will trouble you today.” All Israel stoned him with stones, and they burned them with fire and stoned them with stones.
Only take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to keep his commandments, to hold fast to him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.”
Take good heed therefore to yourselves, that you love Yahweh your God.
He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he has sinned, and with which he has made Israel to sin.”
Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.
What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes?
For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.
“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.
but I prayed for you, that your faith wouldn’t fail. You, when once you have turned again, establish your brothers.”
Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
Now when the synagogue broke up, many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas; who, speaking to them, urged them to continue in the grace of God.
Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.
I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.
Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn’t fall.
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.
Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know about your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.
And the rest of the Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy.
From now on, let no one cause me any trouble, for I bear the marks of the Lord Jesus branded on my body.
But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;
Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
This is a faithful saying: someone who seeks to be an overseer desires a good work.
But shun empty chatter, for it will go further in ungodliness,
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,
Let’s therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.
We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,
Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.
For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;
Therefore since all these things will be destroyed like this, what kind of people ought you to be in holy living and godliness,
The name of the star is called “Wormwood.” One third of the waters became wormwood. Many people died from the waters, because they were made bitter.
Moses said to Aaron, “What did these people do to you, that you have brought a great sin on them?”
For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, of the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poison grapes. Their clusters are bitter.
But as for you, only keep yourselves from what is devoted to destruction, lest when you have devoted it, you take of the devoted thing; so you would make the camp of Israel accursed and trouble it.