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Hebrews 3:12

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Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
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  1. Jeremiah 17:5Rank 1 from verse 12
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    5¶ Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.

  2. Jeremiah 7:24Rank 2 from verse 12
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    24But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

  3. Jeremiah 17:9Rank 3 from verse 12
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    9¶ The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

  4. Jeremiah 18:12Rank 4 from verse 12
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    12And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.

  5. 1 Corinthians 10:12Rank 5 from verse 12
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    12Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.

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Hebrews 3:12

COMBINED MEANING

take

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To receive, seize, carry, accept, choose, or lay hold of.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893

COMBINED MEANING

heed

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Careful attention, notice, or regard; to watch, consider, listen to, or guard oneself.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

brethren

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1. Persons of the same people, tribe, community, or shared service who are regarded or addressed as brothers. 2. Persons regarded as brothers by reason of faith or another spiritual relation. 3. Male siblings or other male relatives.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

lest

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For fear that, to prevent the possibility that, or so that an undesired or warned-of result may not occur.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

you

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The second-person plural pronoun referring to those being addressed.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

evil

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Sense 1: Moral wickedness, sin, wrong, or corruption. Sense 2: Harm, misery, calamity, adversity, or punishment.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

heart

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Sense 1: The bodily organ. Sense 2: The inward person: the mind, will, affections, conscience, or moral character.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

departing

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Going away, leaving, separating, or dying; morally, turning away from the person, precept, or faith named.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

living

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Sense 1: Alive or having life. Sense 2: As a noun, one's means of support or possessions.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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3:12Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

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3:13But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

3:14For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;

3:15While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.

3:16For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

3:17But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

3:18And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?

3:19So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

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