Hebrews 12:15 Cross References - Thomson

¹⁵ watching diligently that none fall short of the favour of God"that no root of bitterness spring up and occasion trouble, and many be defiled by it

²¹ And Moses said to Aaron, What did this people do to thee, that thou hast brought upon them this great sin?

⁹ Take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently. Forget not all the things which thine eyes have seen, and let them not depart from thy heart all the days of thy life; that thou mayst impress upon thy children, and thy childrens' children,

¹⁸ is there any man among you, or any woman, or family, or tribe, whose understanding hath turned them from the Lord your God, to go and serve the gods of those nations? Is there any such root among you, springing up for gall and bitterness?

³² As their vine is from the vine of Sodom And their shoot from that of Gomorra; Their cluster of grapes will be a cluster of gall; A cluster of bitterness it shall be to them:

¹⁸ But be you very careful to abstain from the Anathema, lest peradventure you through covetousness, take something of what is devoted, and make the camp of the Israelites an Anathema, and destroy us.

²⁵ Joshua said to Achar, Why hast thou destroyed us? The Lord destroy thee, as at this day! Then all Israel stoned him with stones. ²⁶ And when they had raised over him a great heap of stones, the Lord ceased from the fierceness of his anger. For this cause he called that place Emek-Achor, which is its name at this day.

¹⁷ Is the sin of Phogor a small matter to you? Because we have not been cleansed from it even to this day, though there was a plague in the congregation of the Lord; ¹⁸ are you therefore now turned away from the Lord? For the consequence will be, if you this day apostatize from the Lord, there will be to-morrow wrath against all Israel. ¹⁹ Now if the land of your possession be too small for you, come over to the land of the possession of the Lord, where the tabernacle of the Lord is pitched, and take a possession among us, and do not become apostates from God, nor revolt from the Lord by building for yourselves an altar apart from the altar of the Lord our God. ²⁰ Behold when Achar, son of Zara, committed a trespass in regard to the Anathema, was there not wrath against all the congregation of Israel, so that he perished not alone for his sin?

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²³ Guard thy heart with all diligence; for out of these are the issues of life.

⁴ What more could I do for my vineyard that I have not done for it? Because I expected that it would produce grapes, and it hath produced poisonous berries;

⁷ For the vineyard of the Lord of Hosts is the house of Israel; and the men of Juda his beloved plant. I waited for their executing justice, but they committed injustice, and promoted not righteousness, but an outcry.

²¹ I indeed planted thee an entirely good and fruitful vine: how art thou, degenerate vine, turned to bitterness?

¹⁶ By their fruits you may know them. Are grapes gathered from thorns? Or figs from thistles? ¹⁷ So every good tree beareth good fruit; and every bad tree beareth bad fruit. ¹⁸ A good tree cannot bear bad fruit; nor a bad tree, good fruit.

³² and I have prayed for thee that thy faith may not quite fail. When thou therefore hast recovered thyself, strengthen thou thy brethren.

³⁰ Yes, even from among yourselves men will start up, speaking perverse things to draw the disciples after them. ³¹ Watch therefore, remembering that for the space of three years I did not cease, night nor day, with tears to warn every one.

⁶ This boasting of yours is unbecoming. Do you not know that a little leaven leaveneth the whole mixture?

²⁴ Do you not know that they who run a race, all run; but one only rcceiveth the prize? In this manner run ye, that you may obtain. ²⁵ Now, every one who is to contend in the public games is temperate in all things. They indeed do this that they may obtain a corruptible crown. But we [to obtain] one that is incorruptible. ²⁶ For my part, therefore, I run in this manner, not as if I were running unseen: I fight, not as if I were beating the air; ²⁷ but I buffet my body and subdue it, lest having proclaimed the glad tidings to others I myself should be disapproved.

¹² So let him who thinketh that he standeth, take heed that he do not fall.

⁸ Love never faileth. But as for prophecies, they will be out of use. As for languages, they will cease: As for science, it will be done away.

³³ Be not led astray; "good morals are debauched by talk profane."

¹ and cooperating with him, we also exhort you that it may not be in vain that you have received this favour of God.

⁵ Examine yourselves whether you be in the faith: prove yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless you are somehow incapable of standing the test.

¹³ And the rest of the Jews also dissembled with him, insomuch that even Barnabas was carried away with their dissimulation.

⁴ You who are justified by law, have done with the Christ"you have fallen from that favour.

³ And let not fornication, nor uncleanness of any sort, nor inordinate desire, be so much as named among you, as becometh saints;

⁵ Mortify, therefore, with regard to your members which are on earth, fornication, uncleanness, inordinate passions, wicked desire, and that licentiousness, which is idolatry,

¹⁶ And repress those profane empty declamations; for they will proceed on to farther impiety; ¹⁷ and like a gangrene the word of these men will spread, of whom are Hymeneus and Philetus,

¹ For this cause we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest we, through negligence, let them slip. ² For if the word spoken by messengers was firm, and every transgression and disobedience received as its reward a correspondent requital,

¹² Take heed, brethren, that there be not in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God;

¹ Let us therefore be afraid, lest having a promise left of entering into His Rest any of us should fall short of it.

¹¹ Let us therefore use all diligence to enter into This Rest, that none may fall short by a like example of disobedience.

¹¹ Now we earnestly desire that every one of you would shew the same diligent concern for the full assurance of this hope to the end:

²³ Let us hold fast the profession of this hope without wavering; for he who hath promised is faithful; ²⁴ and let us observe one another, in order to excite love and good works, ²⁵ not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the custom of some, but comforting one another; and so much the more as you see the day approaching. ²⁶ For if we sin wilfully, after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more any sacrifice for sins, ²⁷ but a certain dreadful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries. ²⁸ Whoever hath set at naught the law of Moses dieth without mercy, on the evidence of two or three witnesses. ²⁹ Of how much greater punishment, think ye, will he be thought worthy, who hath trampled upon the Son of God, and accounted the blood of the covenant, by which he was sanctified, a common thing, and treated contemptuously the spirit of grace? ³⁰ For we know him who said, "Vengeance is mine, I will requite, saith the Lord;" and, again, "The Lord will judge his people." ³¹ It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. ³² But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great conflict of sufferings, ³³ being publicly exposed to reproaches and afflictions, and at the same time sympathizing with them who were thus treated: ³⁴ For you sympathized with me in my bonds, and waited with joy the seizure of your goods, knowing that you had in yourselves a better,"even an ever-during substance in heaven. ³⁵ Therefore cast not away that confidence of yours which hath a great recompense of reward.

¹⁰ Therefore, brethren, use the more diligence to make your call and election sure; for if you practise these you will never fall;

¹ Now there were also false prophets among the people, as there will be also among you false teachers, who will introduce destructive sects, denying even the Lord who bought them, bringing on themselves speedy destruction. ² And many will follow their pernicious courses, on the account of whom the way of the truth will be ill spoken of.

¹⁸ For uttering, with a solemn tone, swelling words of vanity, they by the lusts of the flesh. by acts of lasciviousness, ensnare them who are indeed flying from those conversant in error;

¹¹ Therefore as all these things are to be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conversation and godliness,

¹⁴ As you therefore, beloved, expect these things, use all diligence to be found at peace with him, without spot and without blemish;

⁸ Look to yourselves, that we may not lose our labour, but that we may receive ample wages.

²⁰ But as for you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith, praying with a holy spirit, ²¹ keep yourselves in the love of God, as you expect the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ for everlasting life;