Hebrews 2:1

American Standard Version (1901)

Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things that were heard, lest haply we drift away [from them] .

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  • Heb 1:1-2 : 1 God, having of old time spoken unto the fathers in the prophets by divers portions and in divers manners, 2 hath at the end of these days spoken unto us in [his] Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds;
  • 2 Pet 3:1 : 1 This is now, beloved, the second epistle that I write unto you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by putting you in remembrance;
  • Luke 8:15 : 15 And that in the good ground, these are such as in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it fast, and bring forth fruit with patience.
  • 2 Pet 1:12-13 : 12 Wherefore I shall be ready always to put you in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and are established in the truth which is with [you] . 13 And I think it right, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;
  • 2 Pet 1:15 : 15 Yea, I will give diligence that at every time ye may be able after my decease to call these things to remembrance.
  • Heb 12:5 : 5 and ye have forgotten the exhortation which reasoneth with you as with sons, My son, regard not lightly the chastening of the Lord, Nor faint when thou art reproved of him;
  • Deut 4:9 : 9 Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes saw, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life; but make them known unto thy children and thy children's children;
  • Prov 7:1-2 : 1 My son, keep my words, And lay up my commandments with thee. 2 Keep my commandments and live; And my law as the apple of thine eye.
  • Deut 32:46-47 : 46 And he said unto them, Set your heart unto all the words which I testify unto you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, [even] all the words of this law. 47 For it is no vain thing for you; because it is your life, and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over the Jordan to possess it.
  • Josh 23:11-12 : 11 Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love Jehovah your God. 12 Else if ye do at all go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you;
  • 1 Chr 22:13 : 13 Then shalt thou prosper, if thou observe to do the statutes and the ordinances which Jehovah charged Moses with concerning Israel: be strong, and of good courage; fear not, neither be dismayed.
  • Ps 119:9 : 9 BETH. Wherewith shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed [thereto] according to thy word.
  • Prov 2:1-6 : 1 My son, if thou wilt receive my words, And lay up my commandments with thee; 2 So as to incline thine ear unto wisdom, And apply thy heart to understanding; 3 Yea, if thou cry after discernment, And lift up thy voice for understanding; 4 If thou seek her as silver, And search for her as for hid treasures: 5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of Jehovah, And find the knowledge of God. 6 For Jehovah giveth wisdom; Out of his mouth [cometh] knowledge and understanding:
  • Prov 3:21 : 21 My son, let them not depart from thine eyes; Keep sound wisdom and discretion:
  • Prov 4:1-4 : 1 Hear, [my] sons, the instruction of a father, And attend to know understanding: 2 For I give you good doctrine; Forsake ye not my law. 3 For I was a son unto my father, Tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother. 4 And he taught me, and said unto me: Let thy heart retain my words; Keep my commandments, and live;
  • Prov 4:20-22 : 20 My son, attend to my words; Incline thine ear unto my sayings. 21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; Keep them in the midst of thy heart. 22 For they are life unto those that find them, And health to all their flesh.
  • Luke 9:44 : 44 Let these words sink into your ears: for the Son of man shall be delivered up into the hands of men.
  • Matt 16:9 : 9 Do ye not yet perceive, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
  • Mark 8:18 : 18 Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember?
  • Heb 12:25-26 : 25 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not when they refused him that warned [them] on earth, much more [shall not] we [escape] who turn away from him that [warneth] from heaven: 26 whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more will I make to tremble not the earth only, but also the heaven.
  • Heb 2:2-4 : 2 For if the word spoken through angels proved stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward; 3 how shall we escape, if we neglect so great a salvation? which having at the first been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed unto us by them that heard; 4 God also bearing witness with them, both by signs and wonders, and by manifold powers, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to his own will.
  • Hab 2:16 : 16 Thou art filled with shame, and not glory: drink thou also, and be as one uncircumcised; the cup of Jehovah's right hand shall come round unto thee, and foul shame shall be upon thy glory.
  • Deut 4:23 : 23 Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of Jehovah your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image in the form of anything which Jehovah thy God hath forbidden thee.

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  • Heb 2:2-3
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    2For if the word spoken through angels proved stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward;

    3how shall we escape, if we neglect so great a salvation? which having at the first been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed unto us by them that heard;

  • Heb 12:25
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    25See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not when they refused him that warned [them] on earth, much more [shall not] we [escape] who turn away from him that [warneth] from heaven:

  • Heb 4:1-2
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    1Let us fear therefore, lest haply, a promise being left of entering into his rest, any one of you should seem to have come short of it.

    2For indeed we have had good tidings preached unto us, even as also they: but the word of hearing did not profit them, because it was not united by faith with them that heard.

  • Heb 3:12-15
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    12Take heed, brethren, lest haply there shall be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God:

    13but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called To-day; lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin:

    14for we are become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm unto the end:

    15while it is said, To-day if ye shall hear his voice, Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.

  • Heb 5:11
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    11Of whom we have many things to say, and hard of interpretation, seeing ye are become dull of hearing.

  • 1 Cor 10:12
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    12Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.

  • Heb 4:11
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    11Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, that no man fall after the same example of disobedience.

  • 2 Pet 3:17
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    17Ye therefore, beloved, knowing [these things] beforehand, beware lest, being carried away with the error of the wicked, ye fall from your own stedfastness.

  • Heb 3:7
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    7Wherefore, even as the Holy Spirit saith, To-day if ye shall hear his voice,

  • 2 John 1:8
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    8Look to yourselves, that ye lose not the things which we have wrought, but that ye receive a full reward.

  • 2 Pet 1:10
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    10Wherefore, brethren, give the more diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never stumble:

  • Heb 12:1
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    1Therefore let us also, seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

  • Heb 6:1
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    1Wherefore leaving the doctrine of the first principles of Christ, let us press on unto perfection; not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

  • Heb 4:6-7
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    6Seeing therefore it remaineth that some should enter thereinto, and they to whom the good tidings were before preached failed to enter in because of disobedience,

    7he again defineth a certain day, To-day, saying in David so long a time afterward (even as hath been said before), To-day if ye shall hear his voice, Harden not your hearts.

  • Heb 6:11-12
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    11And we desire that each one of you may show the same diligence unto the fulness of hope even to the end:

    12that ye be not sluggish, but imitators of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

  • Heb 12:15
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    15looking carefully lest [there be] any man that falleth short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble [you], and thereby the many be defiled;

  • Luke 8:18
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    18Take heed therefore how ye hear: for whosoever hath, to him shall be given; and whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that which he thinketh he hath.

  • Heb 6:9
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    9But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak:

  • 2 Tim 2:14
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    14Of these things put them in remembrance, charging [them] in the sight of the Lord, that they strive not about words, to no profit, to the subverting of them that hear.

  • Heb 10:23-26
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    23let us hold fast the confession of our hope that it waver not; for he is faithful that promised:

    24and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and good works;

    25not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting [one another] ; and so much the more, as ye see the day drawing nigh.

    26For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more a sacrifice for sins,

  • Heb 12:27-28
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    27And this [word], Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain.

    28Wherefore, receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us have grace, whereby we may offer service well-pleasing to God with reverence and awe:

  • Heb 13:7
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    7Remember them that had the rule over you, men that spake unto you the word of God; and considering the issue of their life, imitate their faith.

  • 2 Pet 1:18-19
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    18and this voice we [ourselves] heard borne out of heaven, when we were with him in the holy mount.

    19And we have the word of prophecy [made] more sure; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts:

  • Jude 1:17
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    17But ye, beloved, remember ye the words which have been spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;

  • Acts 13:40
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    40Beware therefore, lest that come upon [you] which is spoken in the prophets:

  • Heb 4:14
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    14Having then a great high priest, who hath passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.

  • 2 Pet 1:16
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    16For we did not follow cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

  • Prov 4:20
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    20My son, attend to my words; Incline thine ear unto my sayings.

  • 1 Tim 1:6
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    6from which things some having swerved have turned aside unto vain talking;

  • Eph 4:14
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    14that we may be no longer children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

  • Mark 4:23
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    23If any man hath ears to hear, let him hear.

  • 2 Pet 1:12
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    12Wherefore I shall be ready always to put you in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and are established in the truth which is with [you] .

  • 2 Cor 4:1
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    1Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we faint not:

  • Heb 12:19
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    19and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which [voice] they that heard entreated that no word more should be spoken unto them;

  • 2 Pet 3:2
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    2that ye should remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and the commandments of the Lord and Saviour through your apostles:

  • 1 Tim 4:15
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    15Be diligent in these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy progress may be manifest unto all.

  • Jas 1:22
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    22But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deluding your own selves.

  • Col 2:4
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    4This I say, that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.