Hebrews 3:13
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But exhort one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.
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one another--Greek, "yourselves"; let each exhort himself and his neighbor. daily--Greek, "on each day," or "day by day." while it is called To-day--while the "to-day" lasts (the day of grace, Luk 4:21, before the coming of the day of glory and judgment at Christ's coming, Heb 10:25, Heb 10:37). To-morrow is the day when idle men work, and fools repent. To-morrow is Satan's to-day; he cares not what good resolutions you form, if only you fix them for to-morrow. lest . . . of you--The "you" is emphatic, as distinguished from "your fathers" (Heb 3:9). "That from among you no one (so the Greek order is in some of the oldest manuscripts) be hardened" (Heb 3:8). deceitfulness--causing you to "err in your heart." sin--unbelief.
Open source ↗In this chapter the apostle applies what he had said in the chapter foregoing concerning the priesthood of Christ, I. In a serious pathetic exhortation that this great high priest, who was discovered to them, might be seriously considered by them (Heb 3:1-6). II. He then adds many weighty counsels and cautions (Heb 3:7 to the end).
Open source ↗3:13 Using the word “today” from Ps 95:7, the author challenges his hearers to warn each other every day against the deceptive and hardening power of sin.
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Therefore encourage and build one another up, just as you are already doing.
Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and encourage with every form of patient instruction.
Therefore encourage one another with these words.
But each one is tempted when by his own evil desires he is lured away and enticed.
When he arrived and saw the grace of God, he rejoiced and encouraged them all to abide in the Lord with all their hearts.
For sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through the commandment put me to death.
The pride of your heart has deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks whose habitation is the heights, who say in your heart, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’
to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;
He who trusts in himself is a fool, but one who walks in wisdom will be safe.
He feeds on ashes. His deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?”