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

Because I have called, and ye refuse, I stretched out my hand, and none is attending,

Hear instruction, and be wise, and slight not.

Whoso is refusing instruction -- poverty and shame, And whoso is observing reproof is honoured.

Whoso is refusing instruction is despising his soul, And whoso is hearing reproof Is getting understanding.

They have turned back to the iniquities of their first fathers, Who refused to hear My words, And they have gone after other gods to serve them, The house of Israel, and the house of Judah, Have made void My covenant, that I made with their fathers.

And she changeth My judgments into wickedness more than the nations, And My statutes more than the lands that are round about her, For against My judgments they have kicked, And My statutes -- they have not walked in them.

And they refuse to attend, And they give a refractory shoulder, And their ears have made heavy against hearing.

While he is yet speaking, lo, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and lo, a voice out of the cloud, saying, 'This is My Son, -- the Beloved, in whom I did delight; hear him.'

'This Moses, whom they did refuse, saying, Who did set thee a ruler and a judge? this one God a ruler and a redeemer did send, in the hand of a messenger who appeared to him in the bush;

If they

Because of this it behoveth us more abundantly to take heed to the things heard, lest we may glide aside,

but with whom was He grieved forty years? was it not with those who did sin, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?

any one who did set at nought a law of Moses, apart from mercies, by two or three witnesses, doth die,

Turn away

when ye turn back from after Him, then He hath added yet to leave him in the wilderness, and ye have done corruptly to all this people.'

'And if thy heart doth turn, and thou dost not hearken, and hast been driven away, and hast bowed thyself to other gods, and served them,

Thus said all the company of Jehovah, What is this trespass which ye have trespassed against the God of Israel, to turn back to-day from after Jehovah, by your building for you an altar, for your rebelling to-day against Jehovah?

and if ye turn back -- ye -- and have forsaken My statutes, and My commands, that I have placed before you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them -- then I have plucked them from off My ground that I have given to them,

For the turning of the simple slayeth them, And the security of the foolish destroyeth them.

and indeed, from the truth the hearing they shall turn away, and to the fables they shall be turned aside.

General references

'And if ye do not hearken to Me, and do not all these commands;

'From the heavens He hath caused thee to hear His voice, to instruct thee, and on earth He hath shewed thee His great fire, and His words thou hast heard out of the midst of the fire.

and it hath been -- the man who doth not hearken unto My words which he doth speak in My name, I require it of him.

Because that they have not hearkened unto My words -- an affirmation of Jehovah -- that I sent unto them by My servants the prophets, rising early and sending, and ye hearkened not -- an affirmation of Jehovah.

for I say to you, that none of those men who have been called shall taste of my supper.'