Hebrews 12:15

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Hebrews 12:15

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;

Looking

Any man

Luke 22:32

1 Corinthians 13:8

Galatians 5:4

Fail of

Galatians 5:4

Any root

Hebrews 3:12

Matthew 7:16

Trouble

Ephesians 5:3

Colossians 3:5

And thereby

General references

Mark 13:33

Acts 5:11

Bible References

Looking

This is why we must pay much closer attention to the message once heard, to keep from drifting to one side.

See to it, my brothers, that no wicked, unbelieving heart is found in any of you, as shown by your turning away from the ever-living God,

So let us fear that when the promise for us to be admitted to His rest is still remaining valid some one of you may be found to have missed it.

And we desire each one of you to continue to show the same earnestness to the very end, that you may enjoy your hope to the fullest,

let us, without ever wavering, keep on holding to the hope that we profess, for He is to be trusted who has made the promise,

Do you not know that in a race the runners all run, but only one can get the prize? You must run in such a way that you can get the prize.

So the man who thinks he stands securely must be on the lookout not to fall.

As God's fellow-worker I beg you too not to accept God's favor and throw it away.

You yourselves must continue testing yourselves to see whether you are continuing in the faith. You must continue standing the test. Do you not know by a growing experience that Jesus Christ is in you? -- provided you stand the test.

Therefore, brothers, be all the more in earnest to make certain to yourselves God's call and choice of you. For if you cultivate these qualities, you will never slip,

If all these things are to be dissolved in this way, what men you ought to be! What holy and pious lives you ought to lead,

Look out for yourselves, so as not to lose what we have worked for, but so as to get your full reward.

But you, dearly beloved, must continue to build yourselves up on the groundwork of your most holy faith and to pray in the Holy Spirit;

Any man

but I have prayed especially for you that your own faith may not utterly fail. And you yourself, after you have turned, must strengthen your brothers."

Love never fails; if there are prophecies, they will be set aside; if now exist ecstatic speakings, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will soon be set aside;

You people, whoever you are among you, who try to get into right standing with God, through law have cut yourselves off from Christ, you have missed the way of God's favor.

Fail of

You people, whoever you are among you, who try to get into right standing with God, through law have cut yourselves off from Christ, you have missed the way of God's favor.

Any root

See to it, my brothers, that no wicked, unbelieving heart is found in any of you, as shown by your turning away from the ever-living God,

You must recognize them by their fruits. People do not pick grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles, do they?

Trouble

But sexual vice and any form of immorality or sensual greed must not so much as be mentioned among you, as that is the only course becoming in God's people;

So once for all put to death your lower, earthly nature with respect to sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is real idolatry.

And thereby

Even from your own number men will appear who will try, by speaking perversions of truth, to draw away the disciples after them.

Your ground for boasting about such a case is not good. Are you not aware that a little yeast will change the whole lump of dough?

Do not be so misled: "Evil companionships corrupt good character."

The rest of the Jewish Christians, too, joined him in this pretense so that even Barnabas was influenced to join them in their pretense.

Continue shunning worldly, futile phrases, for they lead on to greater depths of godlessness,

Now there were false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you too, who will insidiously introduce destructive heresies and deny the Master who has bought them, thus bringing on themselves swift destruction.

General references

Keep looking, keep alert, for you do not know when the time will be.

So a strange awe seized the whole church and everybody who heard it.