765 B
765 B
brothers
Here this refers to fellow Christians, including males and females. Alternate translation: "brothers and sisters" or "fellow believers" (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor and rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-gendernotations)
that none of you has an evil heart of unbelief, a heart that turns away from the living God
Here "heart" is a metonym that represents a person's mind or will. Refusing to believe and obey God is spoken of as if the heart did not believe and it physically turned away from God. Alternate translation: "that none of you refuses to believe the truth and stops obeying the living God" (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy and rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor)
the living God
"the true God who is really alive"