Hebrews 12:25

See that you do not refuse the one who is speaking. For if they did not escape when they refused the one who warned them on earth, much less will we escape if we turn away from the one who is warning from heaven.

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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, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks better than Abel's blood.

26At one time, his voice shook the earth. But now he has promised and said, “One more time I will shake not only the earth, but also the heavens.”

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Cross References

Exodus 16:29See, Yahweh has given you the Sabbath. So on the sixth day he is giving you bread for two days. Each of you must stay in his own place; no one must go out from his place on the seventh day.”

Numbers 32:15If you turn away from following him, he will again leave Israel in the wilderness and you will have destroyed all this people.”

Joshua 22:15They came to the people of Reuben, Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh, in the land of Gilead, and they spoke to them:

1 Kings 12:16When all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them, the people answered him and said, 1 “What share do we have in David? 2 We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse! 1 Go to your tents, Israel. 2 Now see to your own house, David.” So Israel went back to their tents.

Proverbs 1:24I have called, and you have refused to listen; 1 I reached out with my hand, but there was no one who paid attention. 1

Proverbs 8:33Listen to my instruction and be wise; 1 do not neglect it. 1

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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