Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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:

Turn away

General references

Bible References

Refuse

Matthew 17:5
As he spoke a bright cloud overshadowed them and a voice from the cloud said, "This is my Son, my Beloved. He is my Chosen. Listen to him!"
Acts 7:35
The Moses whom they had refused, saying to him, 'Who made you our ruler and judge?' God sent both to rule and to deliver them, with the help of the angel who had appeared to him in the bush.

If they

Hebrews 2:1
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.
Hebrews 3:17
And who was it with whom God was angry forty whole years? Was it not with those who had sinned, who dropped dead in the desert?
Hebrews 10:28
Anyone who breaks the Law of Moses is put to death without any show of pity, on the evidence of only two or three witnesses.

Turn away

2 Timothy 4:4
and they will turn from listening to the truth and wander off after fictions.

General references

Luke 14:24
For I tell you that none of those men who were invited shall have any of my dinner!' "