Hebrews 12:15 Cross References - Twentieth_Century

¹⁵ 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.

¹⁶ By the fruit of their lives you will know them. Do people gather grapes from thorn bushes, or figs from thistles? ¹⁷ So, too, every sound tree bears good fruit, while a worthless tree bears bad fruit. ¹⁸ A sound tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a worthless tree bear good fruit.

³² But I prayed for you, Simon, that your faith should not fail. And you, when you have returned to me, are to strengthen your Brothers."

³⁰ And from among yourselves, too, men will arise, who will teach perversions of truth, so as to draw away the disciples after them. ³¹ Therefore, be on your guard, remembering how for three years, night and day, I never ceased, even with tears, to warn each one of you.

⁶ Your boasting is unseemly. Do not you know that even a little leaven leavens all the dough?

²⁴ Do not you know that on a race-course, though all run, yet only one wins the prize? Run in such a way that you may win. ²⁵ Every athlete exercises self-restraint in everything; they, indeed, for a crown that fades, we for one that is unfading. ²⁶ I, therefore, run with no uncertain aim. I box-not like a man hitting the air. ²⁷ No, I bruise my body and make it my slave, lest I, who have called others to the contest, should myself be rejected.

¹² Therefore let the man who thinks that he stands take care that he does not fall.

⁸ Love never fails. But, whether it be the gift of preaching, it will be done with; whether it be the gift of 'tongues,' it will cease; whether it be knowledge, it, too, will be done with.

³³ Do not be deceived. 'Good character is marred by evil company.'

¹ Therefore, as God's fellow-workers, we also appeal to you not to receive his loving-kindness in vain.

⁵ Put yourselves to the proof, to see whether you are holding to the Faith. Test yourselves. Surely you recognize this fact about yourselves--that Jesus Christ is in you! Unless indeed you cannot stand the test!

¹³ The rest of the Jewish converts were guilty of the same hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was led away by it.

⁴ You have severed yourselves from Christ--you who are seeking to be pronounced righteous through Law; you have fallen away from love.

³ As for unchastity and every kind of impurity, or greed, do not let them even be mentioned among you, as befits Christ's People,

⁵ Therefore destroy all that is earthly in you--immorality, uncleanness, passions, evil desires, and that greed which is idolatry.

¹⁶ Avoid profane prattle. Those who indulge in it only get deeper into irreligious ways, ¹⁷ and their teaching will spread like a cancer. Hymenaeus and Philetus are instances of this.

¹ Therefore we must give still more heed to what we were taught, for fear we should drift away. ² For, if the Message which was delivered by angels had its authority confirmed, so that every offence against it, or neglect of it, met with a fitting requital,

¹² Be careful, Brothers, that there is never found in any one of you a wicked and faithless heart, shown by his separating himself from the Living God.

¹ We must, therefore, be very careful, though there is a promise still standing that we shall enter upon God's Rest, that none of you even appear to have missed it.

¹¹ Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter upon that Rest, so that none of us fall through such disbelief as that of which we have had an example.

¹¹ But our great desire is that every one of you should be equally earnest to attain to a full conviction that our hope will be fulfilled, and that you should keep that hope to the end.

²³ Let us maintain the confession of our hope unshaken, for he who has given us his promise will not fail us. ²⁴ Let us vie with one another in a rivalry of love and noble actions. ²⁵ And let us not, as some do, cease to meet together; but, on the contrary, let us encourage one another, and all the more, now that you see the Day drawing near. ²⁶ Remember, if we sin willfully after we have gained a full knowledge of the Truth, there can be no further sacrifice for sin; ²⁷ there is only a fearful anticipation of judgment, and a burning indignation which will destroy all opponents. ²⁸ When a man disregarded the Law of Moses, he was, on the evidence of two or three witnesses, put to death without pity. ²⁹ How much worse then, think you, will be the punishment deserved by those who have trampled underfoot the Son of God, who have treated the blood that rendered the Covenant valid--the very blood by which they were purified--as of no account, and who have outraged the Spirit of Love? ³⁰ We know who it was that said-- 'It is for me to avenge, I will requite'; and again-- 'The Lord will judge his people.' ³¹ It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the Living God. ³² Call to mind those early days in which, after you had received the Light, you patiently underwent a long and painful conflict. ³³ Sometimes, in consequence of the taunts and injuries heaped upon you, you became a public spectacle; and sometimes you suffered through having shown yourselves to be the friends of men who were in the very position in which you had been. ³⁴ For you not only sympathized with those who were in prison, but you even took the confiscation of your possessions joyfully, knowing, as you did, that you had in yourselves a greater possession and a lasting one. ³⁵ Do not, therefore, abandon the confidence that you have gained, for it has a great reward awaiting it.

¹⁰ Therefore, Brothers, do your best to put God's Call and Selection of you beyond all doubt; for, if you do this, you will never fall.

¹ But there were false prophets also in the nation, just as there will be false teachers among you, men who will secretly introduce ruinous divisions, disowning even the Lord who bought them, and bringing speedy Ruin upon themselves. ² There will be many, too, who will follow their licentious courses, and cause the Way of the Truth to be maligned.

¹⁸ With boastful and foolish talk, they appeal to the passions of man's lower nature, and, by their profligacy, entice those who are just escaping from the men who live such misguided lives.

¹¹ Now, since all these things are in the process of dissolution, think what you yourselves ought to be--what holy and pious lives you ought to lead,

¹⁴ Therefore, dear friends, in expectation of these things, make every effort to be found by him spotless, blameless, and at peace.

⁸ Take care that you do not lose the fruit of all our work; rather, reap the benefit of it in full.

²⁰ But do you, dear friends, build up your characters on the foundation of your most holy Faith, pray under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, ²¹ and keep within the love of God, while waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, to bring you to Immortal Life.