Hebrews 12:15 KJV
Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
Thou and Ye
- you more than one
In the King James Bible, thee, thou, thy, and thine always mean one person, and ye, you, and your more than one: a difference modern English lost. Why keep these words?
Matthew Henry
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Thompson Chains
- Watchfulness (2)See the chain from Deuteronomy 4:9 · 9 links
- BackslidingSee the chain from Proverbs 14:14 · 8 links
- God's GraceSee the chain from Psalms 84:11 · 11 links
- BitternessSee the chain from Deuteronomy 32:32 · 5 links
- Evil ExampleLast of 6 links
- EvilSee the chain from Leviticus 20:23 · 3 links
- Defilement (1)Last of 6 links
Cross References
- Galatians 5:4 Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.
- Hebrews 3:12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
- Deuteronomy 29:18 Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;
- 2 Corinthians 6:1 We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
- 1 Corinthians 15:33 Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
- 1 Corinthians 5:6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
- Jude 1:20–21 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, …
- Jeremiah 2:21 Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?
- Hebrews 4:1 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
- 2 Peter 3:14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
- 2 John 1:8 Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.
- Deuteronomy 4:9 Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons;
- Joshua 7:25–26 And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? the LORD shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones. …
- Joshua 22:17–20 Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we are not cleansed until this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of the LORD, …
- 1 Kings 14:16 And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin, and who made Israel to sin.
- Proverbs 4:23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
- Isaiah 5:4 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?
- Isaiah 5:7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
- Matthew 7:16–18 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? …
- Luke 22:32 But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.
- Acts 20:30–31 Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them. …
- 1 Corinthians 9:24–27 Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. …
- 1 Corinthians 10:12 Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
- 1 Corinthians 13:8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
- 2 Corinthians 13:5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
- Galatians 2:13 And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation.
- Ephesians 5:3 But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
- Colossians 3:5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
- 2 Timothy 2:16–17 But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness. …
- Hebrews 2:1–2 Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip. …
- Hebrews 4:11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
- Hebrews 6:11 And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:
- Hebrews 10:23–35 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;) …
- 2 Peter 1:10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
- 2 Peter 2:1–2 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. …
- 2 Peter 2:18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
- 2 Peter 3:11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
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Topics
- Backsliders General scriptures concerning Backsliders
- Diligence Guarding against defilement
- Holiness General scriptures concerning Holiness
- Influence Evil
- Perseverance General scriptures concerning Perseverance
- Reprobacy General scriptures concerning Reprobacy
- Sin Unclassified scriptures relating to, defining and illustrating
- Watchfulness General scriptures concerning Watchfulness
Timeline
- Timeline of the BibleAbout AD 65 · The Epistle to the Hebrews
Bible Dictionary
- God(A.S. and Dutch God; Dan. Gud; Ger. Gott), the name of the Divine Being. It is the rendering (1) of the Hebrew ’El, from a word meaning...
Greek and Strong’s
- Looking diligently Ἐπισκοποῦντες Episkopountes ἐπισκοπέω Verb · present active participle, nominative masculine plural
- lest μή mē μή Conjunction
- any man τις tis τὶς Pronoun · nominative masculine singular
- fail ὑστερῶν hysterōn ὑστερέω Verb · present active participle, nominative masculine singular
- of ἀπὸ apo ἀπό Preposition
- the grace τῆς tēs Article · genitive feminine singular χάριτος charitos χάρις Noun · genitive feminine singular
- of God τοῦ tou Article · genitive masculine singular Θεοῦ Theou θεός Noun · genitive masculine singular
- lest μή mē μή Conjunction
- any τις tis τὶς Article · nominative feminine singular
- root ῥίζα rhiza ῥίζα Noun · nominative feminine singular
- of bitterness πικρίας pikrias πικρία Noun · genitive feminine singular
- springing φύουσα phyousa φύω Verb · present active participle, nominative feminine singular
- up ἄνω anō ἄνω Adverb
- trouble ἐνοχλῇ enochlē ἐνοχλέω Verb · present active subjunctive, third person singular
- and καὶ kai καί Conjunction
- thereby διὰ dia διά Preposition ταὐτῆς tautēs Pronoun · genitive feminine singular ταύτῃ taútēi
- many πολλοί polloi πολύς Adjective · nominative masculine plural
- be defiled μιανθῶσιν mianthōsin μιαίνω Verb · aorist passive subjunctive, third person plural
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