Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Because of this it behoveth us more abundantly to take heed to the things heard, lest we may glide aside,
New American Standard Bible
For this reason we must pay much closer attention to
King James Version
Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
Holman Bible
We must, therefore, pay even more attention to what we have heard, so that we will not drift away.
International Standard Version
For this reason we must pay closer attention to the things we have heard, or we may drift away,
A Conservative Version
Because of this we ought to give more earnest heed to the things that were heard, lest we might slip away.
American Standard Version
Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things that were heard, lest haply we drift away from them .
Amplified
An Understandable Version
So [then], we [Christians] should pay closer attention to the things we have heard, so that we do not drift away from [believing and practicing] them.
Anderson New Testament
Therefore, we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest we let them glide away.
Bible in Basic English
For this reason there is the more need for us to give attention to the things which have come to our ears, for fear that by chance we might be slipping away.
Common New Testament
Therefore we must pay more careful attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it.
Daniel Mace New Testament
Therefore we ought to give the greater attention to the things we have heard, for fear we should abandon the gospel.
Darby Translation
For this reason we should give heed more abundantly to the things we have heard, lest in any way we should slip away.
Godbey New Testament
Therefore it behooves us the more earnestly to give heed to the things which we have heard, lest at some time we may leak out.
Goodspeed New Testament
This is why we must give the very closest attention to the message we have heard, to keep from ever losing our hold upon it.
John Wesley New Testament
Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
Julia Smith Translation
For this ought we to hold above measure to the things heard, lest we slip away.
King James 2000
Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Because of this, [it is] all the more necessary [that] we pay attention to the [things] we have heard, lest we drift away.
Modern King James verseion
Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Wherefore we ought to give the more heed to the things which we have heard, lest we perish.
Moffatt New Testament
We must therefore pay closer attention to what we have heard, in case we drift away.
Montgomery New Testament
For this reason we must pay the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, for fear we should drift away.
NET Bible
Therefore we must pay closer attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.
New Heart English Bible
Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, so that we will not drift away.
Noyes New Testament
Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest haply we let them slip.
Sawyer New Testament
We ought therefore to attend the more to the things which we heard, lest at any time we should glide away [from them].
The Emphasized Bible
For this cause, it behoveth us, with unwonted firmness, to be holding fast unto the things that have been heard, lest, at any time, we drift away.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
FOR this reason we ought to attend more diligently to the things which have been heard, lest by any means we let them flow by us.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Therefore we must give still more heed to what we were taught, for fear we should drift away.
Webster
Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
Weymouth New Testament
For this reason we ought to pay the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, for fear we should drift away from them.
Williams New Testament
This is why we must pay much closer attention to the message once heard, to keep from drifting to one side.
World English Bible
Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.
Worrell New Testament
For this reason, it is needful that we give the more earnest heed to the things heard, lest at any time we drift past them.
Worsley New Testament
For this reason we ought the more earnestly to attend to what we have heard, least by any means we should be found deficient.
Themes
The call of God » Rejection of, leads to » Condemnation
Forgetfulness » Ends in bitter tears
Topics
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Word Count of 37 Translations in Hebrews 2:1
Images Hebrews 2:1
Prayers for Hebrews 2:1
Verse Info
Context Readings
Warning Not To Neglect Salvation
1 Because of this it behoveth us more abundantly to take heed to the things heard, lest we may glide aside, 2 for if the word being spoken through messengers did become stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience did receive a just recompense,
Names
Cross References
Proverbs 3:21
My son! let them not turn from thine eyes, Keep thou wisdom and thoughtfulness,
Deuteronomy 4:9
'Only, take heed to thyself, and watch thy soul exceedingly, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they turn aside from thy heart, all days of thy life; and thou hast made them known to thy sons, and to thy sons' sons.
Deuteronomy 4:23
Take heed to yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of Jehovah your God, which He hath made with you, and have made to yourselves a graven image, a similitude of anything concerning which Jehovah thy God hath charged thee:
Deuteronomy 32:46-47
and saith unto them, 'Set your heart to all the words which I am testifying against you to-day, that ye command your sons to observe to do all the words of this law,
Joshua 23:11-12
and ye have been very watchful for yourselves to love Jehovah your God.
1 Chronicles 22:13
then thou dost prosper, if thou dost observe to do the statutes and the judgments that Jehovah charged Moses with concerning Israel; be strong and courageous; do not fear, nor be cast down.
Psalm 119:9
Beth. With what doth a young man purify his path? To observe -- according to Thy word.
Proverbs 2:1-6
My son, if thou dost accept my sayings, And my commands dost lay up with thee,
Proverbs 4:1-4
Hear, ye sons, the instruction of a father, And give attention to know understanding.
Proverbs 4:20-22
My son, to my words give attention, To my sayings incline thine ear,
Proverbs 7:1-2
My son! keep my sayings, And my commands lay up with thee.
Matthew 16:9
do ye not yet understand, nor remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many hand-baskets ye took up?
Mark 8:18
Having eyes, do ye not see? and having ears, do ye not hear? and do ye not remember?
Luke 8:15
And that in the good ground: These are they, who in an upright and good heart, having heard the word, do retain it, and bear fruit in continuance.
Luke 9:44
'Lay ye to your ears these words, for the Son of Man is about to be delivered up to the hands of men.'
Hebrews 1:1-2
In many parts, and many ways, God of old having spoken to the fathers in the prophets,
Hebrews 2:2-4
for if the word being spoken through messengers did become stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience did receive a just recompense,
Hebrews 12:5
and ye have forgotten the exhortation that doth speak fully with you as with sons, 'My son, be not despising chastening of the Lord, nor be faint, being reproved by Him,
Hebrews 12:25-26
See, may ye not refuse him who is speaking, for if those did not escape who refused him who upon earth was divinely speaking -- much less we who do turn away from him who speaketh from heaven,
2 Peter 1:12-13
Wherefore, I will not be careless always to remind you concerning these things, though, having known them, and having been established in the present truth,
2 Peter 1:15
and I will be diligent that also at every time ye have, after my outgoing, power to make to yourselves the remembrance of these things.
2 Peter 3:1
This, now, beloved, a second letter to you I write, in both which I stir up your pure mind in reminding you,
Habakkuk 1:6
For, lo, I am raising up the Chaldeans, The bitter and hasty nation, That is going to the broad places of earth, To occupy tabernacles not its own.
Habakkuk 2:16
Thou hast been filled -- shame without honour, Drink thou also, and be uncircumcised, Turn round unto thee doth the cup of the right hand of Jehovah, And shameful spewing is on thine honour.