Hebrews 2:1

King James Version 1611 (Original)

Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.

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  • Heb 1:1-2 : 1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
  • 2 Pet 3:1 : 1 This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:
  • Luke 8:15 : 15 But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.
  • 2 Pet 1:12-13 : 12 Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth. 13 Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;
  • 2 Pet 1:15 : 15 Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.
  • Heb 12:5 : 5 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
  • Deut 4:9 : 9 Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons;
  • 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 hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law. 47 For it is not a 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 Jordan to possess it.
  • Josh 23:11-12 : 11 Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the LORD your God. 12 Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you:
  • 1 Chr 22:13 : 13 Then shalt thou prosper, if thou takest heed to fulfil the statutes and judgments which the LORD charged Moses with concerning Israel: be strong, and of good courage; dread not, nor be dismayed.
  • Ps 119:9 : 9 BETH. Wherewithal 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 hide my commandments with thee; 2 So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; 3 Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding; 4 If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; 5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God. 6 For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.
  • Prov 3:21 : 21 My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:
  • Prov 4:1-4 : 1 Hear, ye children, 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 my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother. 4 He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine 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 thine heart. 22 For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
  • Luke 9:44 : 44 Let these sayings sink down into your ears: for the Son of man shall be delivered into the hands of men.
  • Matt 16:9 : 9 Do ye not yet understand, 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 who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven: 26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
  • Heb 2:2-4 : 2 For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward; 3 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him; 4 God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?
  • Hab 2:16 : 16 Thou art filled with shame for glory: drink thou also, and let thy foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the LORD'S right hand shall be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing shall be on thy glory.
  • Deut 4:23 : 23 Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee.

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    2For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward;

    3How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;

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    25See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:

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    1Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.

    2For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.

  • Heb 3:12-15
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    12Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

    13But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

    14For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;

    15While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.

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    11Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.

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    12Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.

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    11Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.

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    17Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.

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    7Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,

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    8Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.

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    10Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:

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    1Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us 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,

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    6Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:

    7Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

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    11And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:

    12That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

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    15Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;

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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 even that which he seemeth to have.

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    9But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.

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

    25Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

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

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    27And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.

    28Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:

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    7Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.

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    18And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.

    19We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:

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    17But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;

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    40Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets;

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    16For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

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    20My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.

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    6From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling;

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    23If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.

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    12Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.

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    19And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:

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    2That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:

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    15Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.

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    22But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

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    4And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words.