Deuteronomy 29:18

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth 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 beareth gall and wormwood;

Among you man

Among you a root

Hebrews 12:15

Bible References

Among you man

Beware that your hearts are not deceived, and that you do not turn away [from the Lord] and serve other gods and worship them,

“If a prophet arises among you, or a dreamer of dreams, and gives you a sign or a wonder,

“If there is discovered among you, within any of your cities, which the Lord your God is giving you, a man or a woman who does evil in the sight of the Lord your God, by transgressing (violating) His covenant,

Take care, brothers and sisters, that there not be in any one of you a wicked, unbelieving heart [which refuses to trust and rely on the Lord, a heart] that turns away from the living God.

Among you a root

therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, “behold, I will feed them, this people, with wormwood and give them bitter and poisonous water to drink.

They have spoken empty (disingenuous) words,
Swearing falsely to make covenants [they intend to break];
Therefore, judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.

Do horses run on rocks?
Do men plow rocks with oxen? [Of course not!]
Yet you have turned justice into poison
And the fruit of righteousness into wormwood (bitterness),

For I see that you are provoked by bitterness and bound by sin.”

See to it that no one falls short of God’s grace; that no root of resentment springs up and causes trouble, and by it many be defiled;