Hebrews 3:12

KJV1611 – Modern English

Beware, brothers and sisters, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    Take heed,{G991} brethren,{G80} lest{G3379} haply there shall be{G2071} in{G1722} any{G5100} one of you{G5216} an{G2588} evil{G4190} heart{G2588} of unbelief,{G570} in{G1722} falling away{G868} from{G575} the living{G2198} God:{G2316}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Take heed{G991}{(G5720)}, brethren{G80}, lest{G3379} there be{G2071}{(G5704)} in{G1722} any{G5100} of you{G5216} an evil{G4190} heart{G2588} of unbelief{G570}, in{G1722} departing{G868}{(G5629)} from{G575} the living{G2198}{(G5723)} God{G2316}.

  • Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

    Take hede brethren that therbe in none of you an evyll herte in vnbeleve that he shuld departe from ye lyvynge god:

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Take hede brethren, that there be not in eny of you an euell hert of vnbeleue, to departe from the lyuynge God:

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Take heede, brethren, least at any time there be in any of you an euill heart, and vnfaithfull, to depart away from the liuing God.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Take heede brethren, lest at any tyme there be in you an euyll heart of vnbeliefe, to depart from the lyuyng God:

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    See, brethren, lest there shall be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in the falling away from the living God,

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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:

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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:

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    My brothers, take care that there is not by chance in any one of you an evil heart without belief, turning away from the living God:

  • World English Bible (2000)

    Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has an evil, unbelieving heart that forsakes the living God.

Referenced Verses

  • Jer 17:9 : 9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
  • Jer 7:24 : 24 But they did not listen, nor incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
  • Jer 17:5 : 5 Thus says the LORD; Cursed is the man that trusts in man, and makes flesh his strength, and whose heart departs from the LORD.
  • Jer 18:12 : 12 And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own plans, and we will everyone do the imagination of his evil heart.
  • Jer 11:8 : 8 Yet they did not obey nor incline 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 not do.
  • Heb 12:25 : 25 See that you do not refuse him who speaks. For if they did not escape who refused him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from him who speaks from heaven:
  • Heb 12:15 : 15 Looking diligently lest anyone fall short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled;
  • Mark 13:33 : 33 Take heed, watch and pray: for you do not know when the time is.
  • 1 Cor 10:12 : 12 Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.
  • Jer 2:13 : 13 For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and carved themselves cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water.
  • Prov 1:32 : 32 For the turning away of the simple will slay them, and the prosperity of fools will destroy them.
  • Heb 10:38 : 38 Now the just shall live by faith; but if anyone draws back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
  • Heb 3:10 : 10 Therefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They always go astray in their heart; and they have not known My ways.
  • Jer 16:12 : 12 And you have done worse than your fathers, for behold, each one walks after the imagination of his evil heart, so that you do not listen to me.
  • Jer 3:17 : 17 At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered to it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk anymore after the imagination of their evil heart.
  • Gen 8:21 : 21 And the LORD smelled a pleasing aroma, and the LORD said in His heart, I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the imagination of his heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again destroy every living thing, as I have done.
  • Job 21:14 : 14 Therefore they say to God, 'Depart from us, for we do not desire the knowledge of Your ways.'
  • Job 22:17 : 17 They said to God, 'Depart from us,' and 'What can the Almighty do for us?'
  • Ps 18:21 : 21 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
  • Hos 1:2 : 2 The beginning of the word of the LORD through Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take for yourself a wife of harlotry and children of harlotry, for the land has committed great harlotry, departing from the LORD.
  • Matt 24:4 : 4 And Jesus answered and said to them, Take heed that no one deceives you.
  • Mark 7:21-23 : 21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, 22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: 23 All these evil things come from within and defile a man.
  • Mark 13:9 : 9 But take heed to yourselves, for they shall deliver you to councils; and in the synagogues you shall be beaten; and you shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them.
  • Mark 13:23 : 23 But take heed: behold, I have foretold you all things.
  • Isa 59:13 : 13 In transgressing and lying against the Lord, and departing from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
  • Luke 21:8 : 8 And he said, Take heed that you be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ, and the time draws near: do not go after them.
  • Rom 11:21 : 21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, He may not spare you either.
  • 1 Thess 1:9 : 9 For they themselves declare concerning us what manner of entrance we had to you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;
  • Heb 2:1-3 : 1 Therefore we ought to give more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip. 2 For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward; 3 How shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by those that heard him;
  • Matt 16:16 : 16 And Simon Peter answered and said, You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Heb 3:13-15
    3 verses
    83%

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

    14 For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end;

    15 While it is said, Today if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion.

  • 15 Looking diligently lest anyone fall short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled;

  • 1 Let us therefore fear, lest, while a promise of entering into his rest remains, any of you should seem to have come short of it.

  • 11 Let us therefore labor to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of unbelief.

  • Heb 3:7-8
    2 verses
    76%

    7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, Today if you will hear His voice,

    8 Do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, in the day of temptation in the wilderness,

  • Heb 4:6-7
    2 verses
    76%

    6 Seeing therefore it remains that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached did not enter because of unbelief:

    7 Again, he designates a certain day, saying in David, "Today," after so long a time, as it is said, "Today if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts."

  • 16 Take heed to yourselves, that your heart is not deceived, and you turn aside and serve other gods, and worship them;

  • 11 So I swore in My wrath, They shall not enter into My rest.

  • 1 Therefore we ought to give more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.

  • 17 You therefore, beloved, seeing you know these things beforehand, beware lest you also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own steadfastness.

  • 12 Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.

  • Heb 3:18-19
    2 verses
    73%

    18 And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not believe?

    19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

  • 8 Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

  • Heb 10:23-25
    3 verses
    73%

    23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful;

    24 And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works,

    25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

  • 6 Let no one deceive you with empty words: for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the children of disobedience.

  • 3 For what if some did not believe? Shall their unbelief make the faithfulness of God without effect?

  • 3 For consider him who endured such hostility from sinners against himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in your minds.

  • 5 Having a form of godliness but denying its power. From such turn away.

  • 5 I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.

  • 12 Take heed to yourself, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it become a snare in your midst.

  • 17 But, beloved, remember the words which were spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ:

  • 31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

  • 40 Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets;

  • 18 Lest there should be among you a man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that bears bitter poison and wormwood;

  • 16 Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers.

  • Heb 6:11-12
    2 verses
    69%

    11 And we desire that each one of you show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope until the end,

    12 That you not become sluggish, but imitate those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

  • 9 Do not be carried about with various and strange doctrines. For it is good that the heart be established by grace, not with foods which have not profited those who have been occupied with them.

  • 8 Look to yourselves, that we do not lose those things we have worked for, but that we may receive a full reward.

  • 3 But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and guard you from evil.

  • 18 But that you must turn away this day from following the LORD? And it will be, seeing you rebel today against the LORD, that tomorrow He will be angry with the whole congregation of Israel.

  • 22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

  • 33 Do not be deceived: Evil company corrupts good habits.

  • 6 If they fall away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God and put Him to open shame.

  • 21 keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

  • 13 But you, brothers, do not grow weary in doing good.

  • 21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, He may not spare you either.

  • 5 And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to children, "My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord, nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by him:

  • 3 How shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by those that heard him;

  • 5 But because of your hardness and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourself against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

  • 1 Now the Spirit speaks clearly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits, and doctrines of demons;

  • 23 Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make for yourselves a carved image, or the likeness of anything, which the LORD your God has forbidden you.

  • 25 See that you do not refuse him who speaks. For if they did not escape who refused him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from him who speaks from heaven: