Hebrews 3:12
Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
注釈
Study Note
The author of Hebrews interrupts his extended midrash on Psalm 95 (Hebrews 3:7–4:13) with this pastoral warning, translating Israel's wilderness apostasy into a present danger for the Christian community. The phrase 'evil heart of unbelief' (kardia ponēra apistias) identifies unbelief not as intellectual doubt but as moral disposition — the condition that leads to 'departing' (apostatical) from the living God, a verb with legal resonance of formal defection. The address 'brethren' signals that the warning is internal to the community of faith, not directed at outsiders, placing the letter's pastoral concern squarely on the danger of Christian apostasy rather than initial conversion. Theological debates about whether Christians can lose salvation frequently orbit this verse and its companion warnings in Hebrews 6 and 10.
他の翻訳
Take heed, brethren, lest haply there shall be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God:
See, brethren, lest there shall be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in the falling away from the living God,
My brothers, take care that there is not by chance in any one of you an evil heart without belief, turning away from the living God:
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