Hebrews 2:1

World English Bible (2000)

Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Heb 1:1-2 : 1 God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, 2 has at the end of these days spoken to us by 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 letter that I have written to you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by reminding you;
  • Luke 8:15 : 15 That in the good ground, these are such as in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and bring forth fruit with patience.
  • 2 Pet 1:12-13 : 12 Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth. 13 I think it right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up by reminding you;
  • 2 Pet 1:15 : 15 Yes, I will make every effort that you may always be able to remember these things even after my departure.
  • Heb 12:5 : 5 and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, "My son, don't take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;
  • Deut 4:9 : 9 Only take heed to yourself, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children's children;
  • Prov 7:1-2 : 1 My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you. 2 Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.
  • Deut 32:46-47 : 46 He said to them, "Set your heart to all the words which I testify to you this day, which you 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 you shall prolong your days in the land, where you go over the Jordan to possess it."
  • Josh 23:11-12 : 11 Take good heed therefore to yourselves, that you love Yahweh your God. 12 "But if you do at all go back, and hold fast to the remnant of these nations, even these who remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you;
  • 1 Chr 22:13 : 13 Then you will prosper, if you observe to do the statutes and the ordinances which Yahweh gave Moses concerning Israel. Be strong, and courageous. Don't be afraid, neither be dismayed.
  • Ps 119:9 : 9 How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.
  • Prov 2:1-6 : 1 My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you; 2 So as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding; 3 Yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding; 4 If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures: 5 then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and find the knowledge of God. 6 For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
  • Prov 3:21 : 21 My son, let them not depart from your eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion:
  • Prov 4:1-4 : 1 Listen, sons, to a father's instruction. Pay attention and know understanding; 2 for I give you sound learning. Don't forsake my law. 3 For I was a son to my father, tender and an only child in the sight of my mother. 4 He taught me, and said to me: "Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.
  • Prov 4:20-22 : 20 My son, attend to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings. 21 Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the midst of your heart. 22 For they are life to those who find them, and health to their whole body.
  • Luke 9:44 : 44 "Let these words sink into your ears, for the Son of Man will be delivered up into the hands of men."
  • Matt 16:9 : 9 Don't you yet perceive, neither remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up?
  • Mark 8:18 : 18 Having eyes, don't you see? Having ears, don't you hear? Don't you remember?
  • Heb 12:25-26 : 25 See that you don't refuse him who speaks. For if they didn't escape when they refused him who warned on the Earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven, 26 whose voice shook the earth then, but now he has promised, saying, "Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heavens."
  • Heb 2:2-4 : 2 For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense; 3 how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation--which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard; 4 God also testifying with them, both by signs and wonders, by various works of power, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to his own will?
  • Hab 2:16 : 16 You are filled with shame, and not glory. You will also drink, and be exposed! The cup of Yahweh's right hand will come around to you, and disgrace will cover your glory.
  • Deut 4:23 : 23 Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he made with you, and make you an engraved image in the form of anything which Yahweh your God has forbidden you.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Heb 2:2-3
    2 verses
    82%

    2 For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense;

    3 how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation--which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard;

  • Heb 12:25
    77%

    25 See that you don't refuse him who speaks. For if they didn't escape when they refused him who warned on the Earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,

  • Heb 4:1-2
    2 verses
    75%

    1 Let us fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest.

    2 For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard didn't profit them, because it wasn't mixed with faith by those who heard.

  • Heb 3:12-15
    4 verses
    74%

    12 Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

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

    14 For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm to the end:

    15 while it is said, "Today if you will hear his voice, don't harden your hearts, as in the rebellion."

  • Heb 5:11
    74%

    11 About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing.

  • 1 Cor 10:12
    73%

    12 Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn't fall.

  • Heb 4:11
    72%

    11 Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.

  • 2 Pet 3:17
    72%

    17 You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.

  • Heb 3:7
    72%

    7 Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, "Today if you will hear his voice,

  • 2 John 1:8
    72%

    8 Watch yourselves, that we don't lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.

  • 2 Pet 1:10
    71%

    10 Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.

  • Heb 12:1
    71%

    1 Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

  • Heb 6:1
    71%

    1 Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let us press on to perfection--not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God,

  • Heb 4:6-7
    2 verses
    71%

    6 Seeing therefore it remains that some should enter therein, and they to whom the good news was before preached failed to enter in because of disobedience,

    7 he again defines a certain day, today, saying through David so long a time afterward (just as has been said), "Today if you will hear his voice, don't harden your hearts."

  • Heb 6:11-12
    2 verses
    70%

    11 We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,

    12 that you won't be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherited the promises.

  • Heb 12:15
    70%

    15 looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it;

  • Luke 8:18
    70%

    18 Be careful therefore how you hear. For whoever has, to him will be given; and whoever doesn't have, from him will be taken away even that which he thinks he has."

  • Heb 6:9
    70%

    9 But, beloved, we are persuaded of better things for you, and things that accompany salvation, even though we speak like this.

  • 2 Tim 2:14
    70%

    14 Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don't argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.

  • Heb 10:23-26
    4 verses
    70%

    23 let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.

    24 Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

    25 not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you see the Day approaching.

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

  • Heb 12:27-28
    2 verses
    69%

    27 This phrase, "Yet once more," signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain.

    28 Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can't be shaken, let us have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,

  • Heb 13:7
    69%

    7 Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.

  • 2 Pet 1:18-19
    2 verses
    69%

    18 We heard this voice come out of heaven when we were with him on the holy mountain.

    19 We have the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well that you heed it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the morning star arises in your hearts:

  • Jude 1:17
    69%

    17 But you, beloved, remember the words which have been spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  • Acts 13:40
    69%

    40 Beware therefore, lest that come on you which is spoken in the prophets:

  • Heb 4:14
    69%

    14 Having then a great high priest, who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold tightly to our confession.

  • 2 Pet 1:16
    69%

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

  • Prov 4:20
    69%

    20 My son, attend to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings.

  • 1 Tim 1:6
    69%

    6 from which things some, having missed the mark, have turned aside to vain talking;

  • Eph 4:14
    69%

    14 that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

  • Mark 4:23
    68%

    23 If any man has ears to hear, let him hear."

  • 2 Pet 1:12
    68%

    12 Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth.

  • 2 Cor 4:1
    68%

    1 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don't faint.

  • Heb 12:19
    68%

    19 the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which those who heard it begged that not one more word should be spoken to them,

  • 2 Pet 3:2
    68%

    2 that you should remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and the commandments of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior:

  • 1 Tim 4:15
    68%

    15 Be diligent in these things. Give yourself wholly to them, that your progress may be revealed to all.

  • Jas 1:22
    68%

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

  • Col 2:4
    68%

    4 Now this I say that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.