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:

Bible References

Refuse

Proverbs 1:24
Because I called out and you refused me, I stretched out my hand, yet there is none who heeds.
Proverbs 8:33
Hear teaching and be wise; do not neglect [it].
Proverbs 13:18
Poverty and disgrace [belong to] him who ignores instruction, but he who guards reproof will be honored.
Proverbs 15:32
He who ignores instruction despises himself, but he who hears admonition gains heart.
Jeremiah 11:10
They have turned back to the iniquities of their former ancestors, who refused to obey my words, and they have gone after other gods, to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant that I {made} with their ancestors."
Ezekiel 5:6
But she has rebelled against my regulations to the point of wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that [are] around her; for they rejected my regulations, and [as for] my statutes, they did not walk in them.
Zechariah 7:11
But they refused to listen, and turned a stubborn shoulder and {stopped their ears from listening}.
Matthew 17:5
[While] he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and behold, a voice from the cloud said, "This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased. Listen to him!"
Acts 7:35
This Moses whom they had repudiated, saying, 'Who appointed you a ruler and a judge?'--this man God sent [as] both ruler and redeemer with {the help} of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

If they

Hebrews 2:1
Because of this, [it is] all the more necessary [that] we pay attention to the [things] we have heard, lest we drift away.
Hebrews 3:17
And with whom was he angry [for] forty years? [Was it] not with those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?
Hebrews 10:28
Anyone who rejected the law of Moses dies without mercy on [the testimony of] two or three witnesses.

Turn away

Numbers 32:15
If you turn from following him, he will again abandon them in the wilderness, and you would have destroyed all these people."
Deuteronomy 30:17
However, if your heart turns aside and you [do] not listen and you are lured away and you bow down to other gods and you serve them,
Joshua 22:16
"Thus says all the congregation of Yahweh: 'What [is] this treachery that you have committed against the God of Israel by turning away today from following Yahweh, by building for yourselves an altar to rebel today against Yahweh?
2 Chronicles 7:19
"But if you turn yourselves away and forsake my ordinances and my commandments which I have given before you [all] and will go and serve other gods and bow down to them,
Proverbs 1:32
for the waywardness of the simple ones will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them.
2 Timothy 4:4
and they will turn away from the hearing of the truth, but will turn to myths.

General references

Leviticus 26:14
" 'But if you do not listen to me and you do not carry out all these commands,
Deuteronomy 4:36
From heaven he made you hear his voice to teach you, and on the earth he showed you his great fire, and you heard his words from the midst of the fire.
Deuteronomy 18:19
{And then} the man that will not listen to my words that he shall speak in my name, I will hold accountable.
Jeremiah 29:19
because they did not listen to my words,' {declares} Yahweh, 'when I sent to them my servants the prophets, {sending over and over again}, and they would not listen,' {declares} Yahweh.
Luke 14:24
For I say to you that none of those persons who were invited will taste my banquet!'"