Hebrews 2:1

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For this reason there is the more need for us to give attention to the things which have come to our ears, for fear that by chance we might be slipping away.

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  • Heb 1:1-2 : 1 In times past the word of God came to our fathers through the prophets, in different parts and in different ways; 2 But now, at the end of these days, it has come to us through his Son, to whom he has given all things for a heritage, and through whom he made the order of the generations;
  • 2 Pet 3:1 : 1 My loved ones, this is now my second letter to you, and in this as in the first, I am attempting to keep your true minds awake;
  • Luke 8:15 : 15 And those in the good earth are those who, having given ear to the word, keep it with a good and true heart, and in quiet strength give fruit.
  • 2 Pet 1:12-13 : 12 For this reason I will be ready at all times to keep your memory of these things awake, though you have the knowledge of them now and are well based in your present faith. 13 And it seems right to me, as long as I am in this tent of flesh, to keep your minds awake by working on your memory;
  • 2 Pet 1:15 : 15 And I will take every care so that you may have a clear memory of these things after my death.
  • Heb 12:5 : 5 And you have not kept in mind the word which says to you as to sons, My son, do not make little of the Lord's punishment, and do not give up hope when you are judged by him;
  • Deut 4:9 : 9 Only take care, and keep watch on your soul, for fear that the things which your eyes have seen go from your memory and from your heart all the days of your life; but let the knowledge of them be given to your children and to your children's children;
  • Prov 7:1-2 : 1 My son, keep my sayings, and let my rules be stored up with you. 2 Keep my rules and you will have life; let my teaching be to you as the light of your eyes;
  • Deut 32:46-47 : 46 Moses said to them, Let the words which I have said to you today go deep into your hearts, and give orders to your children to do every word of this law. 47 And this is no small thing for you, but it is your life, and through this you may make your days long in the land which you are going over Jordan to take for your heritage.
  • Josh 23:11-12 : 11 So keep watch on yourselves, and see that you have love for the Lord your God. 12 For if you go back, joining yourselves to the rest of these nations who are still among you, getting married to them and living with them and they with you:
  • 1 Chr 22:13 : 13 And all will go well for you, if you take care to keep the laws and the rules which the Lord gave to Moses for Israel: be strong and take heart; have no fear and do not be troubled.
  • Ps 119:9 : 9 <BETH> How may a young man make his way clean? by guiding it after your word.
  • Prov 2:1-6 : 1 My son, if you will take my words to your heart, storing up my laws in your mind; 2 So that your ear gives attention to wisdom, and your heart is turned to knowledge; 3 Truly, if you are crying out for good sense, and your request is for knowledge; 4 If you are looking for her as for silver, and searching for her as for stored-up wealth; 5 Then the fear of the Lord will be clear to you, and knowledge of God will be yours. 6 For the Lord gives wisdom; out of his mouth come knowledge and reason:
  • Prov 3:21 : 21 My son, keep good sense, and do not let wise purpose go from your eyes.
  • Prov 4:1-4 : 1 Give ear, my sons, to the teaching of a father; give attention so that you may have knowledge: 2 For I give you good teaching; do not give up the knowledge you are getting from me. 3 For I was a son to my father, a gentle and an only one to my mother. 4 And he gave me teaching, saying to me, Keep my words in your heart; keep my rules so that you may have life:
  • Prov 4:20-22 : 20 My son, give attention to my words; let your ear be turned to my sayings. 21 Let them not go from your eyes; keep them deep in your heart. 22 For they are life to him who gets them, and strength to all his flesh.
  • Luke 9:44 : 44 Let these words go deep into your ears, for the Son of man will be given up into the hands of men.
  • Matt 16:9 : 9 Do you still not see, or keep in mind the five cakes of bread of the five thousand, and the number of baskets you took up?
  • Mark 8:18 : 18 Having eyes, do you not see? and having ears, have you no hearing? and have you no memory?
  • Heb 12:25-26 : 25 See that you give ear to his voice which comes to you. For if those whose ears were shut to the voice which came to them on earth did not go free from punishment, what chance have we of going free if we give no attention to him whose voice comes from heaven? 26 Whose voice was the cause of the shaking of the earth; but now he has made an oath, saying, There will be still one more shaking, not only of the earth, but of heaven.
  • Heb 2:2-4 : 2 Because if the word which came through the angels was fixed, and in the past every evil act against God's orders was given its full punishment; 3 What will come on us, if we do not give our minds to such a great salvation? a salvation of which our fathers first had knowledge through the words of the Lord, and which was made certain to us by those to whom his words came; 4 And God was a witness with them, by signs and wonders, and by more than natural powers, and by his distribution of the Holy Spirit at his pleasure.
  • Hab 2:16 : 16 You are full of shame in place of glory: take your part in the drinking, and let your shame be uncovered: the cup of the Lord's right hand will come round to you and your glory will be covered with shame.
  • Deut 4:23 : 23 Take care that you do not let the agreement of the Lord your God, which he has made with you, go out of your mind, or make for yourselves images of any sort, against the orders which the Lord your God has given you.

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    2Because if the word which came through the angels was fixed, and in the past every evil act against God's orders was given its full punishment;

    3What will come on us, if we do not give our minds to such a great salvation? a salvation of which our fathers first had knowledge through the words of the Lord, and which was made certain to us by those to whom his words came;

  • Heb 12:25
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    25See that you give ear to his voice which comes to you. For if those whose ears were shut to the voice which came to them on earth did not go free from punishment, what chance have we of going free if we give no attention to him whose voice comes from heaven?

  • Heb 4:1-2
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    1Let us then, though we still have God's word that we may come into his rest, go in fear that some of you may be unable to do so.

    2And, truly, the good news came to us, even as it did to them; but the hearing of the word did them no good, because they were not united in faith with the true hearers.

  • Heb 3:12-15
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    12My brothers, take care that there is not by chance in any one of you an evil heart without belief, turning away from the living God:

    13But give comfort to one another every day as long as it is still Today; so that no one among you may be made hard by the deceit of sin:

    14For if we keep the substance of the faith which we had at the start, even till the end, we have a part with Christ;

    15As it is said, Today if you will let his voice come to your ears, be not hard of heart, as when you made him angry.

  • Heb 5:11
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    11Of whom we have much to say which it is hard to make clear, because you are slow of hearing.

  • 1 Cor 10:12
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    12So let him who seems to himself to be safe go in fear of a fall.

  • Heb 4:11
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    11Because of this, let us have a strong desire to come into that rest, and let no one go after the example of those who went against God's orders.

  • 2 Pet 3:17
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    17For this reason, my loved ones, having knowledge of these things before they take place, take care that you are not turned away by the error of the uncontrolled, so falling from your true faith.

  • Heb 3:7
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    7And so, as the Holy Spirit says, Today if you let his voice come to your ears,

  • 2 John 1:8
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    8Keep watch over yourselves, so that you do not make our work of no effect, but may get your full reward.

  • 2 Pet 1:10
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    10For this reason, my brothers, take all the more care to make your selection and approval certain; for if you do these things you will never have a fall:

  • Heb 12:1
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    1For this reason, as we are circled by so great a cloud of witnesses, putting off every weight, and the sin into which we come so readily, let us keep on running in the way which is marked out for us,

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    1For this reason let us go on from the first things about Christ to full growth; not building again that on which it is based, that is, the turning of the heart from dead works, and faith in God,

  • Heb 4:6-7
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    6So that as it is clear that some have to go in, and that the first hearers of the good news were not able to go in because they went against God's orders,

    7After a long time, again naming a certain day, he says in David, Today (as he had said before), Today if you will let his voice come to your ears, be not hard of heart,

  • Heb 6:11-12
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    11And it is our desire that you may all keep the same high purpose in certain hope to the end:

    12So that you may not be slow in heart, but may take as your example those to whom God has given their heritage, because of their faith and their long waiting.

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    18So take care how you give hearing, for to him who has will be given, and from him who has not will be taken even what he seems to have.

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    9But, my loved ones, though we say this, we are certain that you have better things in you, things which go with salvation;

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    14Put these things before them, giving them orders in the name of the Lord to keep themselves from fighting about words, which is of no profit, only causing error in their hearers.

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    23Let us keep the witness of our hope strong and unshaking, for he is true who has given his word:

    24And let us be moving one another at all times to love and good works;

    25Not giving up our meetings, as is the way of some, but keeping one another strong in faith; and all the more because you see the day coming near.

    26For if we do evil on purpose after we have had the knowledge of what is true, there is no more offering for sins,

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    27And the words, Still one more, make it clear that there will be a taking away of those things which are shaking, as of things which are made, so that there may be only those things of which no shaking is possible.

    28If then, we have a kingdom which will never be moved, let us have grace, so that we may give God such worship as is pleasing to him with fear and respect:

  • Heb 13:7
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    7Keep in mind those who were over you, and who gave you the word of God; seeing the outcome of their way of life, let your faith be like theirs.

  • 2 Pet 1:18-19
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    18And this voice came from heaven even to our ears, when we were with him on the holy mountain.

    19And so the words of the prophets are made more certain; and it is well for you to give attention to them as to a light shining in a dark place, till the dawn comes and the morning star is seen in your hearts;

  • Jude 1:17
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    17But you, my loved ones, keep in memory the words which were said before by the Apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ,

  • Acts 13:40
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    40So take care that these words of the prophets do not come true for you;

  • Heb 4:14
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    14Having then a great high priest, who has made his way through the heavens, even Jesus the Son of God, let us be strong in our faith.

  • 2 Pet 1:16
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    16For when we gave you news of the power and the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, our teaching was not based on stories put together by art, but we were eye-witnesses of his glory.

  • Prov 4:20
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    20My son, give attention to my words; let your ear be turned to my sayings.

  • 1 Tim 1:6
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    6From which some have been turned away, giving themselves to foolish talking;

  • Eph 4:14
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    14So that we may be no longer children, sent this way and that, turned about by every wind of teaching, by the twisting and tricks of men, by the deceits of error;

  • Mark 4:23
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    23If any man has ears, let him give ear.

  • 2 Pet 1:12
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    12For this reason I will be ready at all times to keep your memory of these things awake, though you have the knowledge of them now and are well based in your present faith.

  • 2 Cor 4:1
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    1For this reason, because we have been made servants of this new order, through the mercy given to us, we are strong:

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    19And to the sound of a horn, and the voice of words, the hearers of which made request that not a word more might be said to them:

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    2So that you may keep in mind the words of the holy prophets in the past, and the law of the Lord and Saviour which was given to you by his Apostles.

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    15Have a care for these things; give yourself to them with all your heart, so that all may see how you go forward.

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    22But be doers of the word, and not only hearers of it, blinding yourselves with false ideas.

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    4I say this so that you may not be turned away by any deceit of words.