Take care that no one fails to use the loving help of God, 'that no bitterness is allowed to take root and spring up, and cause trouble,' and so poison the whole community.

Jesus replied to them as follows: "See that no one leads you astray;

See to yourselves! They will betray you to courts of law; and you will be taken to Synagogues and beaten; and you will be brought up before governors and kings for my sake, that you may bear witness before them.

And Jesus said: "See that you are not led astray; for many will take my name, and come saying 'I am He,' and 'The time is close at hand.' Do not follow them.

For, if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.

Therefore let the man who thinks that he stands take care that he does not fall.

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Therefore I was sorely vexed with that generation, And I said-- "Their hearts are always straying; They have never learned my ways";

For it is from within, out of the hearts of men, that there come evil thoughts--unchastity, theft, murder, adultery,

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And through faith the Righteous man shall find his Life, But, if a man draws back, my heart can find no pleasure in him.'

Beware how you refuse to hear him who is speaking. For, if the Israelites did not escape punishment, when they refused to listen to him who taught them on earth the divine will, far worse will it be for us, if we turn away from him who is teaching us from Heaven.

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Indeed, in speaking about us, the people themselves tell of the reception you gave us, and how, turning to God from your idols, you became servants of the true and living God,

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As to Sin, for men do not believe in me;