Hebrews 12:25

Make sure you don't reject the one who is speaking! If they didn't escape when they rejected God on earth, it is even more certain that we won't escape if we turn away from God who warns us from heaven!

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In The King James Version

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:

In Context

24You have come to Jesus, who shares with us the new agreed relationship, to the sprinkled blood that means more than that of Abel.

26Back then God's voice shook the earth, but his promise is now: “One more time I'm going to shake not only the earth, but heaven too.”

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Cross References

Exodus 16:29You need to understand that the Lord has given you the Sabbath, so on the sixth day he will provide you with food for two days. On the seventh day, everyone has to stay where they are—no one needs to go out.”

Numbers 32:15If you give up following him, he will abandon these people in the desert once again, and their deaths will be your fault!”

Joshua 22:15After they arrived they told the tribes of Reuben and Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh,

1 Kings 12:16When all the Israelites saw that the king wasn't listening to them, they told the king: “What share do we have in David, and what part do we have in the son of Jesse? Go home, Israel! You're on your own, house of David!” So all the Israelites went home.

Proverbs 1:24For I have called you, but you refused to listen; I reached out my hand to you, but you didn't care.

Proverbs 8:33Listen to my instruction and be wise—do not reject it.

Matthew Henry on Hebrews 12:19-29

Nature of the Christian Economy. ( a. d. 62.) 18 For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, 19 And 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: 20 (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart: 21 And so terrible was the sight, that… Read the whole commentary →

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