Hebrews 12:15

Hebrews 12:15. Looking diligently. The word is used generally of pastoral oversight, but is here used to enforce mutual watchfulness and discipline; a truth set forth also in chap. Hebrews 10:24; Hebrews 3:12; Hebrews 4:1.

Lest any man fail of (come short of by willfully relinquishing) the grace of God. The characteristic of the Gospel is ‘grace,' apart from the works of the Law; and a man falls from it who puts himself at a distance from the blessing, and so gives it up.

Lest any root, or plant, of bitterness, trouble the sacred enclosure of the Church, and thereby the many (the larger part of the ground even) be defiled (corrupted).