Hebrews 3:12

Beware, Achim b'Moshiach, lest there will be in any one of you a lev rah (evil heart) without Emunah, that turns away shmad from Elohim Chayyim.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

11ASHER NISHBA'ETI V'APEY IM YEVO'UN EL MENUKHATI (Therefore I declared on oath in my anger, Never shall they enter into my Rest, Home, Abode, Place of Tranquility.) + 3:11 Gn 49:15; Ps 23; Isa 28:12; 66:1; Ruth 1:9; 1Kgs 8:56

13Instead, give one another chozek (strength) each and every day, as long as it is still called “HAYOM,” (today) + 3:13 Ps 95:7 lest some of you may fall into KESHI (stubbornness, hardness) + 3:13 Dt 9:27 and be stubbornly hardened by the nechalim (deceitfulness) of Chet.

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Cross References

Job 21:14Therefore they say unto El, Depart from us; 1 for we desire not the da'as of Thy ways. 1

Psalms 18:21Hashem dealt with me according to my tzedek; 1 according to the cleanness of my hands hath He recompensed me. 1

Isaiah 59:13In rebelling against and kachash (denying) Hashem, 1 and nasog (turning away) from Eloheinu, 1 speaking oshek (oppression) and sarah (revolt), 1 conceiving and uttering from the lev (heart) divrei sheker (words of falsehood). 1

Jeremiah 3:17At that time they shall call Yerushalayim the Kisse Hashem; and all the Goyim shall be gathered unto it, to the Shem Hashem, to Yerushalayim; neither shall they walk any more after the sherirut libam harah (the stubbornness of their evil heart).

Jeremiah 11:8Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ozen (ear), but walked every one in the sherirut (stubbornness) of their lev harah; therefore I brought upon them all the Divrei HaBrit Hazot, which I commanded them to do; but they did them not.

Jeremiah 17:5Thus saith Hashem: 1 Arur (cursed) be the gever that trusteth in adam, 1 and maketh basar his zero'a, 1 and whose lev turneth away from Hashem. 1

Matthew Henry on Hebrews 3:8-19

Cautions against Apostasy. ( a. d. 62.) 7 Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, 8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: 9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. 10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. 11 So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.) 12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you… Read the whole commentary →

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