On account of this we must give the more earnest heed to the things we have heard, lest we drift away.

how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which in the beginning was spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by those who heard [Him],

looking diligently lest anyone fall from the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness growing up cause trouble, and through this many be defiled;

And Jesus answered and said to them: "Take heed that no one deceives you.

But take heed to yourselves, for they will deliver you up to councils, and you will be flogged in the synagogues. You will stand before rulers and kings for My sake, as a testimony to them.

But you take heed! See, I have foretold to you all things.

Take heed, stay awake and pray; for you do not know when the time is.

And He said: "Take heed that you not be deceived. For many will come in My name, saying, 'I am [He],' and, 'The time has drawn near.' Therefore do not go after them.

For if God did not spare the natural branches, perhaps He may not spare you either.

So then, let him who thinks he stands take heed, lest he should fall!

Therefore I was indignant with that generation, and said, 'They go astray in their heart; and they did not know My ways.'

And the Lord God smelled an aroma of sweetness, and the Lord God having considered, said, I will never again curse the earth, because of the works of men, because the imagination of man is intently bent upon evil things from his youth, I will never again smite all living flesh as I have done.

For My people have committed two evils: they have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, and hewn out for themselves broken cisterns, which will not be able to hold water.

In those days and at that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the Lord; and all the nations shall be gathered to it: and they shall not walk anymore after the imaginations of their evil heart.

But they hearkened not to Me, and their ear gave no heed, but they walked in the imaginations of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

But they did not do them.

(And you sinned worse than your fathers- for behold, you walk everyone after the lusts of your own evil heart, so as not to listen to Me).

The heart is deep beyond all things, and it constitutes the man, and who can know him?

And they said, We will quit ourselves like men, for we will pursue our perverse ways, and we will perform each the lusts of his evil heart.

For from within, out of the heart of men, come forth evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

All these evil things come from within and defile a man."

But the just shall live by faith, and if he withdraws, My soul has no pleasure in him."

See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape, having refused Him who warned [them], how much more [shall we not escape] if we turn away from Him who warns from heaven;

Yet [such a man] says to the Lord, Depart from me; I desire not to know Your ways.

Who say, What will the Lord do to us? Or what will the Almighty bring upon us?

For I have kept the way of the Lord and have not wickedly departed from my God.

For because they wronged the simple, they shall be slain; and an inquisition shall ruin the ungodly.

We have sinned, and dealt falsely, and revolted from our God; we have spoken unrighteous words, and have been disobedient; we have conceived and uttered from our heart unrighteous words.

Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and will lean his arm of flesh upon him, while his heart departs from the Lord.

The beginning of the word of the Lord by Hosea. And the Lord said to Hosea, Go, take to yourself a wife of fornication, and children of fornication: for the land will surely go a-whoring in departing from the Lord.

For they themselves report about us what kind of entrance we had to you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God,