Hebrews 12:15 Cross References - Worrell

¹⁵ looking carefully, lest there be any one falling short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness, springing up, trouble you, and through it many be defiled;

¹⁶ From their fruits ye shall recognize them. Do men gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles? ¹⁷ So every good tree bears good fruit, but the worthless tree bears evil fruit. ¹⁸ A good tree cannot bear evil fruit, nor can a worthless tree bear good fruit.

³² but I prayed for you, that your faith fail not; and, when once you have turned again, establish your brethren."

³⁰ and from among yourselves will men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them. ³¹ Wherefore, watch, remembering that for three years, night and day, I ceased not to admonish every one with tears.

⁶ Your boasting is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

²⁴ Know ye not that those running a race, all, indeed, run; but one receives the prize? So run; that ye may obtain. ²⁵ And every one who strives in the games exercises self restraint in all things; they, indeed, therefore, to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. ²⁶ I, therefore, so run, as not uncertainly I so fight, as not beating the air. ²⁷ But I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage; lest, by any means, after having preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

¹² Wherefore, let him who thinks he is standing take heed, lest he fall.

⁸ Love never fails; but whether there be prophecies, they will be done away; whether there be tongues, they will cease; whether there be knowledge, it will be done away.

³³ Be not deceived; evil companionships corrupt good morals.

¹ And, working together with Him, we also entreat you that ye receive not the grace of God in vain

⁵ Try yourselves, whether ye are in the faith; prove yourselves. Or know ye not as to yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless ye be rejected?

¹³ And the rest of the Jews also dissembled with him, so that even Barnabas was carried away by their hypocrisy.

⁴ Ye were separated from Christ, whoever of you are being justified by law; ye fell out of grace;

³ But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becomes saints;

⁵ Make dead, therefore, your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which, indeed, is idolatry;

¹⁶ But shun the profane babblings, for they will proceed to more ungodliness; ¹⁷ and their word will spread, as a gangrene; of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;

¹ For this reason, it is needful that we give the more earnest heed to the things heard, lest at any time we drift past them. ² For, if the word spoken through angels became steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a righteous recompense,

¹² Take heed, brethren, lest at any time there shall be in anyone of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

¹ Let us, therefore, fear, lest a promise still being left of entering into His rest, any one of you should seem to have come short of it.

¹¹ Let us, therefore, give diligence to enter into that rest, that no one fall after the same example of unbelief.

¹¹ And we desire that each of you show forth the same diligence to the full assurance of the hope to the end;

²³ let us hold fast the confession of the hope without wavering (for faithful is He Who promised); ²⁴ and let us consider one another, to incite to love and good works; ²⁵ not forsaking the gathering of ourselves together, as is the custom of some, but exhorting, and so much the more as ye see the day approaching. ²⁶ For, if we sin wilfully after we received the full knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, ²⁷ but a certain fearful expectation of judgment and fierceness of fire about to devour the opposers. ²⁸ Anyone, having set aside Moses' law, dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses; ²⁹ of how much worse punishment, think ye, shall he be accounted worthy, who trampled under foot the Son of God, and accounted the blood of the covenant with which He was sanctified an unholy thing, and treated with contempt the Spirit of grace? ³⁰ For we know Him Who said, To Me belongs vengeance; I will recompense," saith the Lord; and again, "The Lord will judge His people." ³¹ It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God! ³² But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were enlightened, ye endured a great conflict of sufferings; ³³ partly, indeed, when ye were made a spectacle both with reproaches and tribulations; and partly, when ye became partakers with those who were so used; ³⁴ for ye both sympathized with those in bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your possessions; knowing that ye yourselves have a better possession and an abiding one. ³⁵ Cast not away, therefore, your boldness, which, indeed, has great recompense.

¹⁰ Wherefore, brethren, give the more diligence to make your calling and election sure; for, if ye do these things, ye shall in nowise ever stumble;

¹ But there arose false prophets also among the people, as among you also there will be false teachers, who, indeed, will stealthily bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master Who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction: ² and many will follow their lascivious doings; by reason of whom the way of the truth will be defamed;

¹⁸ For, uttering great swelling words of vanity, they entice, in desires of the flesh, by their lasciviousness, those just escaping from those who live in error;

¹¹ Seeing, therefore, that all these things are thus to be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conduct and godliness,

¹⁴ Wherefore, beloved, since ye are looking for these things, give diligence that ye be found in peace, without spot and blameless in His sight.

⁸ Take heed to yourselves, that ye lose not the things which we wrought, but that ye receive a full reward.

²⁰ But do ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, ²¹ keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.