Hebrews 12:15 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Looking diligently, &c.— "I have been earnestly exhorting you to cultivate holiness in your own hearts and lives; and I must farther press it upon you, that you endeavour to maintain a friendly and brotherly inspection over each other. Look to it, therefore, with the greatest attention and care, for yourselves and one another, lest any one, by apostacy from the Christian religion, fall short of the grace of God, under the day of grace and dispensation of the gospel; lest any root of bitterness and poison, springing up unheeded, occasion trouble to the society in general, and by it, before you are aware, many be disturbed and defiled, through the contagion of so bad an example."

Hebrews 12:15

15 Looking diligently lest any man faild of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;