Hebrews 12:15

A Serious Warning Against Refusing God

¹⁴ Continue to live in peace with everybody and strive for that consecration without which no one can see the Lord. ¹⁵ Continue to look after one another, that no one fails to gain God's spiritual blessing; or some evil like a bitter root may spring up and trouble you, and many of you be contaminated by it -- ¹⁶ some immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal.

Be Careful

From God

Grace of God

Esau

No

Galatians 5:4

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.

Hebrews 3:12

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,

2 Corinthians 6:1

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

Hebrews 4:1

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.

Matthew 7:16-18

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

Luke 22:32

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."

Acts 20:30-31

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

1 Corinthians 5:6

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?

1 Corinthians 9:24-27

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.

1 Corinthians 10:12

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

1 Corinthians 13:8

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;

1 Corinthians 15:33

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

2 Corinthians 13:5

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.

Galatians 2:13

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

Ephesians 5:3

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;

Colossians 3:5

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.

2 Timothy 2:16-17

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

Hebrews 2:1-2

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

Hebrews 4:11

So let us do our best to be admitted to that rest, so that not one of us may fail through the same sort of disobedience.

Hebrews 6:11

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,

Hebrews 10:23-35

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,

2 Peter 1:10

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,

2 Peter 2:1-2

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.

2 Peter 2:18

For by uttering arrogant nonsense, through base desires of the lower nature, they entice into immorality men who are just escaping from those who live in error,

2 Peter 3:11

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,

2 Peter 3:14

Therefore, dearly beloved, since you are expecting this, be in earnest to be found by Him without a blot, without reproach, and at peace.

2 John 1:8

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

Jude 1:20-21

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;