Hebrews 2:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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;

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  • Luke 1:2 : 2 As they were handed down to us by those who saw them from the first and were preachers of the word,
  • Heb 1:2 : 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;
  • Heb 12:25 : 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?
  • Heb 5:9 : 9 And when he had been made complete, he became the giver of eternal salvation to all those who are under his orders;
  • Heb 10:28-29 : 28 A man who has gone against the law of Moses is put to death without pity on the word of two or three witnesses: 29 But will not the man by whom the Son of God has been crushed under foot, and the blood of the agreement with which he was washed clean has been taken as an unholy thing, and who has had no respect for the Spirit of grace, be judged bad enough for a very much worse punishment?
  • 1 Pet 4:17-18 : 17 For the time has come for the judging, starting with the church of God; but if it makes a start with us, what will be the end of those who are not under the rule of God? 18 And if it is hard for even the good man to get salvation, what chance has the man without religion or the sinner?
  • Titus 2:11 : 11 For the grace of God has come, giving salvation to all men,
  • Heb 4:11 : 11 Because 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.
  • Acts 4:12 : 12 And in no other is there salvation: for there is no other name under heaven, given among men, through which we may have salvation.
  • Rom 2:3 : 3 But you who are judging another for doing what you do yourself, are you hoping that God's decision will not take effect against you?
  • Isa 12:2 : 2 See, God is my salvation; I will have faith in the Lord, without fear: for the Lord Jah is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.
  • Isa 51:5 : 5 Suddenly will my righteousness come near, and my salvation will be shining out like the light; the sea-lands will be waiting for me, and they will put their hope in my strong arm.
  • Isa 62:11 : 11 The Lord has sent out word to the end of the earth, Say to the daughter of Zion, See, your saviour comes; those whom he has made free are with him, and those to whom he has given salvation go before him.
  • Ezek 17:15 : 15 But he went against his authority in sending representatives to Egypt to get from them horses and a great army. Will he do well? will he be safe who does such things? if the agreement is broken will he be safe?
  • Ezek 17:18 : 18 For he put his oath on one side in letting the agreement be broken; and though he had given his hand to it, he did all these things; he will not get away safe.
  • Matt 4:17 : 17 From that time Jesus went about preaching and saying, Let your hearts be turned from sin, for the kingdom of heaven is near.
  • Matt 23:33 : 33 You snakes, offspring of snakes, how will you be kept from the punishment of hell?
  • Mark 1:14 : 14 Now after John had been put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the good news of God,
  • Mark 16:15-20 : 15 And he said to them, Go into all the world, and give the good news to everyone. 16 He who has faith and is given baptism will get salvation; but he who has not faith will be judged. 17 And these signs will be with those who have faith: in my name they will send out evil spirits; and they will make use of new languages; 18 They will take up snakes, and if there is poison in their drink, it will do them no evil; they will put their hands on those who are ill, and they will get well. 19 So then the Lord Jesus, after he had said these words to them, was taken up into heaven and took his seat at the right hand of God. 20 And they went out, preaching everywhere, the Lord working with them, and giving witness to the word by the signs which came after. So be it.
  • Isa 51:8 : 8 For like a coat they will be food for the insect, the worm will make a meal of them like wool: but my righteousness will be for ever, and my salvation to all generations.
  • Isa 20:6 : 6 And those living by the sea will say in that day, See the fate of our hope to whom we went for help and salvation from the king of Assyria: what hope have we then of salvation?
  • Luke 1:69 : 69 Lifting up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David,
  • Luke 24:19 : 19 And he said to them, What things? And they said, The things to do with Jesus of Nazareth, who was a prophet, great in his acts and his words, before God and all the people:
  • Luke 24:47-48 : 47 And that teaching about a change of heart and forgiveness of sins is to be given to Jerusalem first and to all nations in his name. 48 You are witnesses of these things.
  • John 3:16-18 : 16 For God had such love for the world that he gave his only Son, so that whoever has faith in him may not come to destruction but have eternal life. 17 God did not send his Son into the world to be judge of the world; he sent him so that the world might have salvation through him. 18 The man who has faith in him does not come up to be judged; but he who has no faith in him has been judged even now, because he has no faith in the name of the only Son of God.
  • John 15:27 : 27 And you, in addition, will give witness because you have been with me from the first.
  • Acts 1:22 : 22 Starting from the baptism of John till he went up from us, one will have to be a witness with us of his coming back from death.
  • Acts 2:22 : 22 Men of Israel, give ear to these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man who had the approval of God, as was made clear to you by the great works and signs and wonders which God did by him among you, as you yourselves have knowledge,
  • 1 Thess 5:3 : 3 When they say, There is peace and no danger, then sudden destruction will come on them, as birth-pains on a woman with child; and they will not be able to get away from it.
  • 1 Tim 1:15 : 15 It is a true saying, in which all may put their faith, that Christ Jesus came into the world to give salvation to sinners, of whom I am the chief:
  • Acts 10:40-42 : 40 On the third day God gave him back to life, and let him be seen, 41 Not by all the people, but by witnesses marked out before by God, even by us, who took food and drink with him after he came back from the dead. 42 And he gave us orders to give news of this to the people, and to give public witness that this is he whom God has made judge of the living and the dead.
  • Heb 4:1 : 1 Let 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.
  • Rev 6:16-17 : 16 And they say to the mountains and to the rocks, Come down on us, covering us from the face of him who is seated on the high seat, and from the wrath of the Lamb: 17 For the great day of their wrath is come, and who may keep his place?
  • Rev 7:10 : 10 Saying with a loud voice, Salvation to our God who is seated on the high seat, and to the Lamb.
  • Heb 7:25-26 : 25 So that he is fully able to be the saviour of all who come to God through him, because he is ever living to make prayer to God for them. 26 It was right for us to have such a high priest, one who is holy and without evil, doing no wrong, having no part with sinners, and made higher than the heavens:

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    1For 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 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 3:14-15
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    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.

  • 1 Cor 15:2
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    2By which you have salvation; that is to say, the form in which it was given to you, if it is fixed in your minds, and if your faith in it is not without effect.

  • 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 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.

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    1In times past the word of God came to our fathers through the prophets, in different parts and in different ways;

    2But 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 3:2
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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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    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,

  • Acts 15:11
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    11But we have faith that we will get salvation through the grace of the Lord Jesus in the same way as they.

  • Heb 6:9
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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;

  • Jude 1:3-5
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    3My loved ones, while my thoughts were full of a letter which I was going to send you about our common salvation, it was necessary for me to send you one requesting you with all my heart to go on fighting strongly for the faith which has been given to the saints once and for ever.

    4For certain men have come among you secretly, marked out before in the holy Writings for this evil fate, men without the fear of God, turning his grace into an unclean thing, and false to our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

    5Now it is my purpose to put you in mind, though you once had knowledge of all these things, of how the Lord, having taken a people safely out of Egypt, later sent destruction on those who had no faith;

  • Heb 2:4-5
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    4And 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.

    5For he did not make the angels rulers over the world to come, of which I am writing.

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    29But will not the man by whom the Son of God has been crushed under foot, and the blood of the agreement with which he was washed clean has been taken as an unholy thing, and who has had no respect for the Spirit of grace, be judged bad enough for a very much worse punishment?

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    17For the time has come for the judging, starting with the church of God; but if it makes a start with us, what will be the end of those who are not under the rule of God?

    18And if it is hard for even the good man to get salvation, what chance has the man without religion or the sinner?

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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:

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    20For if, after they have got free from the unclean things of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again taken in the net and overcome, their last condition is worse than their first.

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

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    18And this voice came from heaven even to our ears, when we were with him on the holy mountain.

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    5With knowledge of the good word of God, and of the powers of the coming time,

    6And then let themselves be turned away, it is not possible for their hearts to be made new a second time; because they themselves put the Son of God on the cross again, openly shaming him.

  • Acts 2:40
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    40And with more such words he gave his witness, offering them salvation and saying, Come out from this evil generation.

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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.

  • 1 Thess 1:5
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    5Because our good news came to you, not in word only, but in power, and in the Holy Spirit, so that you were completely certain of it; even as you saw what our behaviour to you was like from our love to you.

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    3If you have had a taste of the grace of the Lord:

  • Acts 13:26
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    26My brothers, children of the family of Abraham, and those among you who have the fear of God, to us the word of this salvation is sent.

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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:

    11For so the way will be open to you into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

  • Rom 10:14
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    14But how will they give worship to him in whom they have no faith? and how will they have faith in him of whom they have not had news? and how will they have news without a preacher?

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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.

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    8But even if we, or an angel from heaven, were to be a preacher to you of good news other than that which we have given you, let there be a curse on him.

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

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

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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 Cor 1:10
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    10Who gave us salvation from so great a death: on whom we have put our hope that he will still go on to give us salvation;

  • 2 Tim 1:9
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    9Who gave us salvation, marking us out for his purpose, not on account of our works, but in the measure of his purpose and his grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

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    20For it is not possible for us to keep from saying what we have seen and have knowledge of.

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    10Because it was right for him, for whom and through whom all things have being, in guiding his sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation complete through pain.

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    2As they were handed down to us by those who saw them from the first and were preachers of the word,

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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.