Hebrews 3:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

• Hebrews 3:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Take heed, brethren - In view of the conduct of the rebellious Jews, and of their fearful doom, be on your guard lest you also be found to have had the same feelings of rebellion and unbelief. Se...

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• Hebrews 3:12 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (7) Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. (7) Now consider in the words of David, he shows first by this word "today" that we...

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• Hebrews 3:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Hebrews 3:1 to Hebrews 4:13 . As Christ is higher than the angels, so He is greater than Moses, through whom the first covenant was established. The comparison with Moses, however, occupies on...

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• Hebrews 3:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Take heed . Greek. blepo . App-133. lest . Greek. me. App-105. any . any one. Greek. tis . App-123. evil . Greek. poneros. App-128. departing . falling away. Compare Luke 8:13 ; 1 Ti...

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• Hebrews 3:12 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  12. Take heed, (or See,) brethren, lest there be at any time in any of you a wicked heart of unbelief, etc. I have preferred to retain literally what the Apostle states, rather than...

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• Hebrews 3:12 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 2280 AGAINST DEPARTING FROM GOD Hebrews 3:12-14 . Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God, But exhort, one another...

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• Hebrews 3:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you - Take warning by those disobedient Isra...

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• Hebrews 3:12 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  From the living God.— Whose house they are said to be, Hebrews 3:6 . He is called living, as being ever one and the same; and therefore he must be always equally offended with the same sins.

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• Hebrews 3:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. Take heed. To be joined with "Wherefore," Hebrews 3:7 . Lest there be , х e...

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• Hebrews 3:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Jesus Christ, Lord of the Household of Gods ( b ) Christ is superior also to Moses; for He is Son over the house of God, whereas Moses was only a servant in it.

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• Hebrews 3:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Lest there be in any of you. — Better, lest haply there shall be in any one of you. (See above, on Hebrews 3:7 .) In departing . — Better, in falling away from a Living God. The heart of unb...

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• Hebrews 3:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER III. FUNDAMENTAL ONENESS OF THE DISPENSATIONS. Hebrews 3:1 - Hebrews 4:13 (R.V.). "Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High-priest of...

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• Hebrews 3:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “Harden Not Your Hearts” Hebrews 3:12-19 There is a peril lest familiarity with God's words should beget indifference to them. The path may be trodden hard by the sower's feet. That story of th...

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• Hebrews 3:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The argument now passed to the second claim of superiority, that over all human leaders. He is first seen as superior to Moses and Joshua. He is "the Apostle" completely fulfilling the function repre...

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• Hebrews 3:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (7) Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, Today 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 m...

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• Hebrews 3:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Take heed, brethren ,.... This exhortation is grounded upon the state and case of their ancestors before given, as a warning and caution to the then present Hebrews; and whom the apostle styles "bre...

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• Hebrews 3:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. Ver. 12. In departing from ] απιστια parit αποστασιαν. Infidelity is the mother of...

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• Hebrews 3:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Take heed Βλεπετε, see to it , consider, use care and circumspection; brethren, lest Μηποτε, lest at any time; there be in any of you As there was in your forefathers of old; he speaks to them...

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• Hebrews 3:12 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  "Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling." Let us keep in mind that this is addressed to Jewish believers. How great a contrast to that which their own religion had taught them! E...

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• Hebrews 3:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Cautions against Apostasy. A. D.  62.       7 Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will...

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• Hebrews 3:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  OLBGrk; Here the Spirit applieth the former dreadful example of sin and judgment to the Hebrews, to forewarn them how they sinned as these did, lest they partake of the like vengeance; and so enters...

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• Hebrews 3:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES Hebrews 3:7-19 form part of an exhortation, based on the superiority of Christ over Moses, and the conduct of the Jewish people in their relation to Moses. They wer...

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• Hebrews 3:12 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Hebrews 3:7-19 Unbelief in the Wilderness. I. The history of the wanderings of the Israelites in the wilderness is most instructive. No Scripture is of private interpretation, but is Catholic and...

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• Hebrews 3:12 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Hebrews 3:1 . Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus: Oh, that he had more consideration at our hands!...

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• Hebrews 3:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Hebrews 3:1 . Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, who, as the sons of God, are called to eternal glory, consider the Apostle and Highpriest of our profession, that he un...

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• Hebrews 3:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION THE SON SUPERIOR TO MOSES . Here begins the second section of the argument of the first four chapters (see summary given under Hebrews 1:5 ). But though a new branch of the...

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• Hebrews 3:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  A warning lesson from the history of Moses:

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• Hebrews 3:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 10:12 ; 1 Thessalonians 1:9 ; Genesis 8:21 ; Hebrews 10:38 ; Hebrews 12:15 ; Hebrews 12:25 ; Hebrews 2:1-3 ; Hebrews 3:10 ; Hosea 1:2 ; Isaiah 59:13 ; Jeremiah 11:8 ; Jeremi...

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• Hebrews 3:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Take heed, lest there be in any of you — As there was in them. An evil heart of unbelief — Unbelief is the parent of all evil, and the very essence of unbelief lies in departing from God, as the li...

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