15Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
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Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
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;
Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.
We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 4-17)Here the apostle presses the exhortation to patience and perseverance by an argument taken from the gentle measure and gracious nature of those sufferings which the believing Hebrews endured in their Christian course. I. From the gentle and moderate degree and measure of their sufferings: You have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin , Heb. 12:4. Observe, 1. He owns that they had suff…
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