Hebrews 12:15

Webster's Bible (1833)

looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby the many be defiled;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἐπισκοποῦντες μή τις ὑστερῶν ἀπὸ τῆς χάριτος τοῦ Θεοῦ· μή τις ῥίζα πικρίας ἄνω φύουσα ἐνοχλῇ, καὶ διὰ ταὐτῆς μιανθῶσιν πολλοί·

Transliteration

Episkopountes lest anyone hysterōn from the charitos of Theou; lest any rhiza pikrias anō phyousa enochlē, and through this mianthōsin many;

Grammar Details

• *Episkopountes*: participle, present active, nominative, plural, masculine - watching over/looking carefully
• *hysterōn*: participle, present active, nominative, singular, masculine - falling short/coming behind
• *charitos*: noun, genitive, singular, feminine - of grace
• *Theou*: noun, genitive, singular, masculine - of God
• *rhiza*: noun, nominative, singular, feminine - root
• *pikrias*: noun, genitive, singular, feminine - of bitterness
• *anō*: adverb - upward/above
• *phyousa*: participle, present active, nominative, singular, feminine - springing up/growing
• *enochlē*: verb, present active subjunctive, 3rd person singular - cause trouble/disturb
• *mianthōsin*: verb, aorist passive subjunctive, 3rd person plural - be defiled/polluted

Word Meanings

• *Episkopountes*: watching over/looking carefully/seeing to it/overseeing
• *hysterōn*: falling short/coming behind/failing/missing
• *enochlē*: cause trouble/disturb/create difficulty
• *mianthōsin*: be defiled/polluted/contaminated

Referenced Verses

• Gal 5:4 : 4 You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.
• Heb 3:12 : 12 Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;
• Deut 29:18 : 18 lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that bears gall and wormwood;
• 2 Cor 6:1 : 1 Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace of God in vain,
• 1 Cor 15:33 : 33 Don't be deceived! "Evil companionships corrupt good morals."
• Jude 1:20-21 : 20 But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit. 21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.
• 1 Cor 5:6 : 6 Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?
• Jer 2:21 : 21 Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then are you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?
• 2 Pet 3:14 : 14 Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without blemish and blameless in his sight.
• 2 John 1:8 : 8 Watch yourselves, that we don't lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.
• Heb 4:1 : 1 Let us fear therefore, lest perhaps a promise being left of entering into his rest, anyone of you should seem to have come short of it.
• Heb 4:11 : 11 Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.
• Heb 6:11 : 11 We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,
• Heb 10:23-35 : 23 let us hold fast the confession of our hope unyieldingly. For he who promised is faithful. 24 Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works, 25 not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you see the Day approaching. 26 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries. 28 A man who disregards Moses' law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses. 29 How much worse punishment, do you think, will he be judged worthy of, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know him who said, "Vengeance belongs to me," says the Lord, "I will repay." Again, "The Lord will judge his people." 31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. 32 But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings; 33 partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions; and partly, becoming partakers with those who were treated so. 34 For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens. 35 Therefore don't throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.
• 2 Pet 1:10 : 10 Therefore, brothers,{The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.
• 2 Pet 2:1-2 : 1 But there also arose false prophets among the people, as among you also there will be false teachers, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction. 2 Many will follow their immoral{TR reads "destructive" instead of "immoral"} ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned.
• 2 Pet 2:18 : 18 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;
• 2 Pet 3:11 : 11 Therefore since all these things are thus to be destroyed, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy living and godliness,
• 2 Cor 13:5 : 5 Test your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don't you know as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?--unless indeed you are disqualified.
• Gal 2:13 : 13 And the rest of the Jews joined him in his hypocrisy; so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy.
• Eph 5:3 : 3 But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;
• Col 3:5 : 5 Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
• 2 Tim 2:16-17 : 16 But shun empty chatter, for they will proceed further in ungodliness, 17 and their word will consume like gangrene, of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;
• Heb 2:1-2 : 1 Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away. 2 For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense;
• Matt 7:16-18 : 16 By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles? 17 Even so, every good tree produces good fruit; but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit. 18 A good tree can't produce evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree produce good fruit.
• Luke 22:32 : 32 but I prayed for you, that your faith wouldn't fail. You, when once you have turned again, establish your brothers{The word for "brothers" here may be also correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."}."
• Acts 20:30-31 : 30 Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them. 31 Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn't cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.
• 1 Cor 9:24-27 : 24 Don't you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win. 25 Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. 26 I therefore run like that, as not uncertainly. I fight like that, as not beating the air, 27 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.
• 1 Cor 10:12 : 12 Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn't fall.
• 1 Cor 13:8 : 8 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.
• Deut 4:9 : 9 Only take heed to yourself, 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;
• Josh 7:25-26 : 25 Joshua said, Why have you troubled us? Yahweh shall trouble you this day. All Israel stoned him with stones; and they burned them with fire, and stoned them with stones. 26 They raised over him a great heap of stones, to this day; and Yahweh turned from the fierceness of his anger. Therefore the name of that place was called "The valley of Achor" to this day.
• Josh 22:17-20 : 17 Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we have not cleansed ourselves to this day, although there came a plague on the congregation of Yahweh, 18 that you must turn away this day from following Yahweh? and it will be, seeing you rebel today against Yahweh, that tomorrow he will be angry with the whole congregation of Israel. 19 However, if the land of your possession be unclean, then pass over to the land of the possession of Yahweh, in which Yahweh's tent dwells, and take possession among us: but don't rebel against Yahweh, nor rebel against us, in building you an altar besides the altar of Yahweh our God. 20 Didn't Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the devoted thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? and that man didn't perish alone in his iniquity.
• 1 Kgs 14:16 : 16 He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he has sinned, and with which he has made Israel to sin.
• Prov 4:23 : 23 Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it is the wellspring of life.
• Isa 5:4 : 4 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?
• Isa 5:7 : 7 For the vineyard of Yahweh of Hosts 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.
• Exod 32:21 : 21 Moses said to Aaron, "What did these people do to you, that you have brought a great sin on them?"
• Deut 32:32 : 32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, Of the fields of Gomorrah: Their grapes are grapes of gall, Their clusters are bitter:
• Josh 6:18 : 18 But as for you, only keep yourselves from the devoted thing, lest when you have devoted it, you take of the devoted thing; so would you make the camp of Israel accursed, and trouble it.