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Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;
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Guard Your Deceivable Heart
Commentators unanimously highlight the verse's warning about the heart's susceptibility to deception. John Calvin notes that humanity is prone to superstition, while John Gill specifies that deception can come from plausible arguments, the example of others, or even misinterpreting the natural world. The command to "take heed" is a call to constant vigilance against the many snares that can lead one away from God.
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Deuteronomy
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19th Century
Anglican
Take heed to yourselves —i.e., when you are satisfied ().
16th Century
Protestant
Take heed to yourselves. By often emphasizing the same thing, namely, that they should diligently take heed, he indirectly arraigns humani…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived By observing the influence of the heavens upon the fruitful…
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Presbyterian
Moses sets before them, for the future, life and death, the blessing and the curse, depending on whether they kept or did not keep God's commandmen…