Therefore we need to more abundantly heed the things we have heard, so that they do not slip our minds.

how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him,

watching carefully that no one fall short of the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and through this many become defiled;

And Jesus answered and said to them: Take heed that no one leads you astray.

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

But take heed; behold, I have foretold you all things.

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

And He said: Take heed that you not be led astray. For many will come in My name, saying, I AM, and, The time is here. Therefore do not go after them.

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

Therefore let him who thinks he is firmly established take heed that he not fall.

Therefore I was angry with that generation, and said, They always go astray in their heart, and they have not known My ways.

And Jehovah smelled a soothing aroma. And Jehovah said in His heart, I will never again curse the ground because of man, although the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; nor will I again smite every living thing as I have done.

For My people have committed two evils; they have forsaken Me, the Fountain of Living Waters, to hew out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.

At that time Jerusalem shall be called, The Throne of Jehovah; and all the nations shall be gathered to it, to the name of Jehovah, to Jerusalem. Nor shall they walk any more after the stubbornness of their evil hearts.

But they did not listen, nor extend their ear, but walked in their own plans, in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward and not forward.

Yet they did not obey nor extend their ear, but walked each one in the stubbornness of his evil heart. Therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do; but they did not do them.

And you have done worse than your fathers; for behold, you walk, each one, after the stubbornness of his evil heart, and do not listen to Me.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?

And they said, There is no hope; but we will walk after our own thoughts, and we will each one do according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.

For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual perversions, murders,

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

Now the just shall live by faith; but if anyone draws back, My soul is not pleased with him.

See to it that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape who refused Him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from the One speaking from Heaven,

Yet they say to the Mighty God, Depart from us, for we do not desire the knowledge of Your ways.

They said to the Mighty God, Depart from us! What can the Almighty do to them?

For I have kept the ways of Jehovah, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

For the turning away of the simple kills them, and the ease of fools destroys them.

in transgressing and lying against Jehovah, and backsliding from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

Thus says Jehovah, Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his strength, and whose heart departs from Jehovah.

The beginning of the Word of Jehovah by Hosea. And Jehovah said to Hosea, Go, take to yourself a wife of prostitution, and children of prostitution. For the land has committed adultery against Jehovah with great harlotry.

For they themselves declare concerning us what manner of entry we had to you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God,