Deuteronomy 11:16Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Beware lest perhaps your heart be deceived, and you depart from the Lord, and serve strange gods, and adore them:
הִשָּֽׁמְר֣וּ לָכֶ֔ם פֶּ֥ן יִפְתֶּ֖ה לְבַבְכֶ֑ם וְסַרְתֶּ֗ם וַעֲבַדְתֶּם֙ אֱלֹהִ֣ים אֲחֵרִ֔ים וְהִשְׁתַּחֲוִיתֶ֖ם לָהֶֽם׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Job 31:27And my heart in secret hath rejoiced, and I have kissed my hand with my mouth:
- Heb 3:12Take heed, brethren, lest perhaps there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, to depart from the living God.
- Heb 2:1Therefore ought we more diligently to observe the things which we have heard lest perhaps we should let them slip.
- Deut 29:18Lest perhaps there should be among you a man or a woman, a family or a tribe, whose heart is turned away this day from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of those nations: and there should be among you a root bringing forth gall and bitterness.
- Jas 1:26And if any man think himself to be religious, not bridling his tongue but deceiving his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
- Deut 30:17But if thy heart be turned away, so that thou wilt not hear, and being deceived with error thou adore strange gods, and serve them:
- Deut 4:23Beware lest thou ever forget the covenant of the Lord thy God, which he hath made with thee: and make to thyself a graven likeness of those things which the Lord hath forbid to be made:
- Deut 8:19But if thou forget the Lord thy God, and follow strange gods, and serve and adore them: behold now I foretell thee that thou shalt utterly perish.