Hebrews 12:25

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:

Refuse

If they

Hebrews 2:1

Hebrews 3:17

Hebrews 10:28

Turn away

General references

Luke 14:24

Bible References

Refuse

However, because I called but you refused to listen, because I stretched out my hand but no one paid attention,

Listen to my instruction so that you may be wise, and do not neglect it.

The one who neglects discipline ends up in poverty and shame, but the one who accepts reproof is honored.

The one who refuses correction despises himself, but whoever hears reproof acquires understanding.

They have gone back to the evil ways of their ancestors of old who refused to obey what I told them. They, too, have paid allegiance to other gods and worshiped them. Both the nation of Israel and the nation of Judah have violated the covenant I made with their ancestors.

Then she defied my regulations and my statutes, becoming more wicked than the nations and the countries around her. Indeed, they have rejected my regulations, and they do not follow my statutes.

"But they refused to pay attention, turning away stubbornly and stopping their ears so they could not hear.

While he was still speaking, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said, "This is my one dear Son, in whom I take great delight. Listen to him!"

This same Moses they had rejected, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and judge?' God sent as both ruler and deliverer through the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

If they

Therefore we must pay closer attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.

And against whom was God provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?

Someone who rejected the law of Moses was put to death without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

Turn away

For if you turn away from following him, he will once again abandon them in the wilderness, and you will be the reason for their destruction."

However, if you turn aside and do not obey, but are lured away to worship and serve other gods,

"The entire community of the Lord says, 'Why have you disobeyed the God of Israel by turning back today from following the Lord? You built an altar for yourselves and have rebelled today against the Lord.

"But if you people ever turn away from me, fail to obey the regulations and rules I instructed you to keep, and decide to serve and worship other gods,

For the waywardness of the simpletons will kill them, and the careless ease of fools will destroy them.

And they will turn away from hearing the truth, but on the other hand they will turn aside to myths.

General references

"'If, however, you do not obey me and keep all these commandments --

From heaven he spoke to you in order to teach you, and on earth he showed you his great fire from which you also heard his words.

I will personally hold responsible anyone who then pays no attention to the words that prophet speaks in my name.

For they have not paid attention to what I said to them through my servants the prophets whom I sent to them over and over again,' says the Lord. 'And you exiles have not paid any attention to them either,' says the Lord.

For I tell you, not one of those individuals who were invited will taste my banquet!'"