Warning Against Neglecting Salvation
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Therefore we must give the more earnest heed to the things we have heard, lest we drift away.
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For if the word a spoken through angels proved steadfast, and b every transgression and disobedience received a just reward,
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c how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, d which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was e confirmed to us by those who heard Him,
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f God also bearing witness g both with signs and wonders, with various miracles, and h gifts of the Holy Spirit, i according to His own will?
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 33:2
And he said: "The LORD came from Sinai, And dawned on them from Seir; He shone forth from Mount Paran, And He came with ten thousands of saints; From His right hand Came a fiery law for them.
Acts 7:53
"who have received the law by the direction of angels and have not kept it."
Galatians 3:19
What purpose then does the law serve? It was added because of transgressions, till the Seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was appointed through angels by the hand of a mediator.
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Cross References
Numbers 15:30
But the person who does anything presumptuously, whether he is native-born or a stranger, that one brings reproach on the LORD, and he shall be cut off from among his people.
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Hebrews 10:28
Anyone who has rejected Moses' law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
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Matthew 4:17
From that time Jesus began to preach and to say, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
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Mark 16:20
And they went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the word through the accompanying signs. Amen.
Luke 1:2
Just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word delivered them to us.
1 John 1:1
That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, concerning the Word of life -
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Cross References
Mark 16:20
And they went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the word through the accompanying signs. Amen.
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Acts 2:22
Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a Man attested by God to you by miracles, wonders, and signs which God did through Him in your midst, as you yourselves also know -
Acts 2:43
Then fear came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were done through the apostles.
2 Corinthians 12:2
I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago - whether in the body I do not know, or whether out of the body I do not know, God knows - such a one was caught up to the third heaven.
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Cross References
1 Corinthians 12:4
There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
1 Corinthians 12:7
But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all:
1 Corinthians 12:11
But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually as He wills.
Ephesians 4:7
But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ's gift.
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Cross References
Ephesians 1:5
Having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will.
Ephesians 1:9
Having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself.
New King James Version (NKJV) Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc.