Deuteronomy 29:18

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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 and serve other gods and worship them.

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

“If there is found in your midst, in any of your towns, which the Lord your God is giving you, a man or a woman who does what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God, by transgressing His covenant,

Take care, brethren, that there not be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart that falls 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 poisoned water to drink.

They speak mere words,

With worthless oaths they make covenants;

And judgment sprouts like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.

Do horses run on rocks?
Or does one plow them with oxen?
Yet you have turned justice into poison
And the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,

For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and in the bondage of iniquity.”

See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springing up causes trouble, and by it many be defiled;