Hebrews 12:25

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Take care not to refuse the one who is speaking! For if they did not escape when they refused the one who warned them on earth, how much less shall we, if we reject the one who warns from heaven?

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  • Heb 8:5 : 5 The place where they serve is a sketch and shadow of the heavenly sanctuary, just as Moses was warned by God as he was about to complete the tabernacle. For he says,“See that you make everything according to the design shown to you on the mountain.”
  • Heb 11:7 : 7 By faith Noah, when he was warned about things not yet seen, with reverent regard constructed an ark for the deliverance of his family. Through faith he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
  • Ezek 5:6 : 6 Then she defied my regulations and my statutes, becoming more wicked than the nations and the countries around her. Indeed, they have rejected my regulations, and they do not follow my statutes.
  • Zech 7:11 : 11 “But they refused to pay attention, turning away stubbornly and stopping their ears so they could not hear.
  • Matt 8:4 : 4 Then Jesus said to him,“See that you do not speak to anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest, and bring the offering that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.”
  • Matt 17:5 : 5 While he was still speaking, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said,“This is my one dear Son, in whom I take great delight. Listen to him!”
  • Acts 7:35 : 35 This same Moses they had rejected, saying,‘Who made you a ruler and judge?’ God sent as both ruler and deliverer through the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
  • 1 Thess 5:15 : 15 See that no one pays back evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue what is good for one another and for all.
  • 2 Tim 4:4 : 4 And they will turn away from hearing the truth, but on the other hand they will turn aside to myths.
  • Heb 2:1-3 : 1 Warning Against Drifting Away Therefore we must pay closer attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away. 2 For if the message spoken through angels proved to be so firm that every violation or disobedience received its just penalty, 3 how will we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was first communicated through the Lord and was confirmed to us by those who heard him,
  • Heb 3:17 : 17 And against whom was God provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?
  • Exod 16:29 : 29 See, because the LORD has given you the Sabbath, that is why he is giving you food for two days on the sixth day. Each of you stay where you are; let no one go out of his place on the seventh day.”
  • Exod 20:22 : 22 The Altar The LORD said to Moses:“Thus you will tell the Israelites:‘You yourselves have seen that I have spoken with you from heaven.
  • Num 32:15 : 15 For if you turn away from following him, he will once again abandon them in the wilderness, and you will be the reason for their destruction.”
  • Deut 30:17 : 17 However, if you turn aside and do not obey, but are lured away to worship and serve other gods,
  • Josh 22:16 : 16 “The entire community of the LORD says,‘Why have you disobeyed the God of Israel by turning back today from following the LORD? You built an altar for yourselves and have rebelled today against the LORD.
  • 1 Kgs 12:16 : 16 When all Israel saw that the king refused to listen to them, the people answered the king,“We have no portion in David, no share in the son of Jesse! Return to your homes, O Israel! Now, look after your own dynasty, O David!” So Israel returned to their homes.
  • 2 Chr 7:19 : 19 “But if you people ever turn away from me, fail to obey the regulations and rules I instructed you to keep, and decide to serve and worship other gods,
  • Prov 1:24 : 24 However, because I called but you refused to listen, because I stretched out my hand but no one was paying attention,
  • Prov 1:32 : 32 For the waywardness of the simpletons will kill them, and the careless ease of fools will destroy them.
  • Prov 8:33 : 33 Listen to my instruction so that you may be wise, and do not neglect it.
  • Prov 13:18 : 18 The one who neglects discipline ends up in poverty and shame, but the one who accepts reproof is honored.
  • Prov 15:32 : 32 The one who refuses correction despises himself, but whoever listens to reproof acquires understanding.
  • Isa 48:6 : 6 You have heard; now look at all the evidence! Will you not admit that what I say is true? From this point on I am announcing to you new events that are previously unrevealed and you do not know about.
  • Isa 64:9 : 9 LORD, do not be too angry! Do not hold our sins against us continually! Take a good look at your people, at all of us!
  • Jer 11:10 : 10 They have gone back to the evil ways of their ancestors of old who refused to obey what I told them. They, too, have paid allegiance to other gods and worshiped them. Both the nation of Israel and the nation of Judah have violated the covenant I made with their ancestors.
  • Heb 10:28-29 : 28 Someone who rejected the law of Moses was put to death without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29 How much greater punishment do you think that person deserves who has contempt for the Son of God, and profanes the blood of the covenant that made him holy, and insults the Spirit of grace?
  • 1 Pet 1:22 : 22 You have purified your souls by obeying the truth in order to show sincere mutual love. So love one another earnestly from a pure heart.
  • Rev 19:10 : 10 So I threw myself down at his feet to worship him, but he said,“Do not do this! I am only a fellow servant with you and your brothers and sisters who hold to the testimony about Jesus. Worship God, for the testimony about Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”
  • Rev 22:9 : 9 But he said to me,“Do not do this! I am a fellow servant with you and with your brothers the prophets, and with those who obey the words of this book. Worship God!”

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  • Heb 2:1-3
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    1Warning Against Drifting Away Therefore we must pay closer attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.

    2For if the message spoken through angels proved to be so firm that every violation or disobedience received its just penalty,

    3how will we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was first communicated through the Lord and was confirmed to us by those who heard him,

  • Heb 12:26-28
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    26Then his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised,“I will once more shake not only the earth but heaven too.”

    27Now this phrase“once more” indicates the removal of what is shaken, that is, of created things, so that what is unshaken may remain.

    28So since we are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us give thanks, and through this let us offer worship pleasing to God in devotion and awe.

  • Heb 12:17-20
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    17For you know that later when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no opportunity for repentance, although he sought the blessing with tears.

    18For you have not come to something that can be touched, to a burning fire and darkness and gloom and a whirlwind

    19and the blast of a trumpet and a voice uttering words such that those who heard begged to hear no more.

    20For they could not bear what was commanded:“If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned.”

  • Heb 3:15
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    15As it says,“Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks! Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”

  • Heb 3:7
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    7Exposition of Psalm 95: Hearing God’s Word in Faith Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says,“Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks!

  • Deut 5:25-26
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    25But now, why should we die, because this intense fire will consume us! If we keep hearing the voice of the LORD our God we will die!

    26Who is there from the entire human race who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the middle of the fire as we have, and has lived?

  • Heb 12:24
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    24and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks of something better than Abel’s does.

  • Heb 12:5
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    5And have you forgotten the exhortation addressed to you as sons?“My son, do not scorn the Lord’s discipline or give up when he corrects you.

  • Heb 4:6-7
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    6Therefore it remains for some to enter it, yet those to whom it was previously proclaimed did not enter because of disobedience.

    7So God again ordains a certain day,“Today,” speaking through David after so long a time, as in the words quoted before,“Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks! Do not harden your hearts.”

  • Heb 10:25-31
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    25not abandoning our own meetings, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging each other, and even more so because you see the day drawing near.

    26For if we deliberately keep on sinning after receiving the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins is left for us,

    27but only a certain fearful expectation of judgment and a fury of fire that will consume God’s enemies.

    28Someone who rejected the law of Moses was put to death without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

    29How much greater punishment do you think that person deserves who has contempt for the Son of God, and profanes the blood of the covenant that made him holy, and insults the Spirit of grace?

    30For we know the one who said,“Vengeance is mine, I will repay,” and again,“The Lord will judge his people.”

    31It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

  • Heb 12:15
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    15See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God, that no one be like a bitter root springing up and causing trouble, and through it many become defiled.

  • Heb 3:12
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    12See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has an evil, unbelieving heart that forsakes the living God.

  • Heb 5:11
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    11The Need to Move on to Maturity On this topic we have much to say and it is difficult to explain, since you have become sluggish in hearing.

  • Heb 4:1
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    1God’s Promised Rest Therefore we must be wary that, while the promise of entering his rest remains open, none of you may seem to have come short of it.

  • Acts 13:40
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    40Watch out, then, that what is spoken about by the prophets does not happen to you:

  • Heb 12:3
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    3Think of him who endured such opposition against himself by sinners, so that you may not grow weary in your souls and give up.

  • Heb 4:14
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    14Jesus Our Compassionate High Priest Therefore since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast to our confession.

  • Heb 4:11
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    11Thus we must make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by following the same pattern of disobedience.

  • Heb 2:5
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    5Exposition of Psalm 8: Jesus and the Destiny of Humanity For he did not put the world to come, about which we are speaking, under the control of angels.

  • 1 Cor 10:12
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    12So let the one who thinks he is standing be careful that he does not fall.

  • 2 Pet 1:18
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    18When this voice was conveyed from heaven, we ourselves heard it, for we were with him on the holy mountain.

  • Heb 12:9
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    9Besides, we have experienced discipline from our earthly fathers and we respected them; shall we not submit ourselves all the more to the Father of spirits and receive life?

  • Heb 12:1
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    1The Lord’s Discipline Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, we must get rid of every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and run with endurance the race set out for us,

  • Rev 13:9
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    9If anyone has an ear, he had better listen!

  • Exod 20:19
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    19They said to Moses,“You speak to us and we will listen, but do not let God speak with us, lest we die.”

  • Heb 13:14
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    14For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come.

  • Heb 13:7
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    7Remember your leaders, who spoke God’s message to you; reflect on the outcome of their lives and imitate their faith.

  • John 12:48
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    48The one who rejects me and does not accept my words has a judge; the word I have spoken will judge him at the last day.

  • Heb 6:6
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    6and then have committed apostasy, to renew them again to repentance, since they are crucifying the Son of God for themselves all over again and holding him up to contempt.

  • Acts 4:20
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    20for it is impossible for us not to speak about what we have seen and heard.”

  • Luke 10:16
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    16“The one who listens to you listens to me, and the one who rejects you rejects me, and the one who rejects me rejects the one who sent me.”

  • Num 32:15
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    15For if you turn away from following him, he will once again abandon them in the wilderness, and you will be the reason for their destruction.”

  • Heb 11:40
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    40For God had provided something better for us, so that they would be made perfect together with us.

  • Prov 15:32
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    32The one who refuses correction despises himself, but whoever listens to reproof acquires understanding.

  • Heb 1:2
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    2in these last days he has spoken to us in a son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom he created the world.