Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

For if the message spoken through angels was legally binding and every transgression and disobedience received a just punishment,

New American Standard Bible

For if the word spoken through angels proved unalterable, and every transgression and disobedience received a just penalty,

King James Version

For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward;

International Standard Version

because if the message spoken by angels was reliable, and every violation and act of disobedience received its just punishment,

A Conservative Version

For if the word spoken through heavenly agents became certain, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward,

American Standard Version

For if the word spoken through angels proved stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward;

Amplified

For if the message given through angels [the Law given to Moses] was authentic and unalterable, and every violation and disobedient act received an appropriate penalty,

An Understandable Version

For if the message spoken through angels proved to be binding [Note: This is a reference to the law of Moses. See Acts 7:53; Gal. 3:19], and every violation [of it] and disobedience [to it] received a just penalty,

Anderson New Testament

For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just punishment,

Bible in Basic English

Because if the word which came through the angels was fixed, and in the past every evil act against God's orders was given its full punishment;

Common New Testament

For if the message spoken by angels was valid, and every transgression and disobedience received a just punishment,

Daniel Mace New Testament

for if the law deliver'd by angels was put in execution, and every transgression and disobedience was justly punish'd as it deserv'd;

Darby Translation

For if the word which was spoken by angels was firm, and every transgression and disobedience received just retribution,

Godbey New Testament

For if the word having been spoken by angels was stedfast, and every disobedience and transgression received a just recompense of reward;

Goodspeed New Testament

For if the message delivered by angels proved to be authentic, and every violation or neglect of it led to a corresponding penalty,

John Wesley New Testament

For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence:

Julia Smith Translation

For if the word spoken by angels was firm, and every transgression and bad instruction received the just payment of reward;

King James 2000

For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward;

Lexham Expanded Bible

For if the word spoken through angels was binding and every transgression and act of disobedience received a just penalty,

Modern King James verseion

For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and if every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward,

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For if the word which was spoken by angels was steadfast - so that every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense to reward -

Moffatt New Testament

For if the divine word spoken by angels held good, if transgression and disobedience met with due punishment in every case,

Montgomery New Testament

For if the word uttered through angels stood firm, so that every transgression and act of disobedience met with its just retribution, how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation?

NET Bible

For if the message spoken through angels proved to be so firm that every violation or disobedience received its just penalty,

New Heart English Bible

For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense;

Noyes New Testament

For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just retribution,

Sawyer New Testament

For if the word spoken by angels was firm, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense,

The Emphasized Bible

For, if the word through messengers spoken became firm, and, every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense,

Thomas Haweis New Testament

For if the discourse spoken by angels was confirmed, and every transgression and disobedience received a just punishment as its due,

Twentieth Century New Testament

For, if the Message which was delivered by angels had its authority confirmed, so that every offence against it, or neglect of it, met with a fitting requital,

Webster

For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward;

Weymouth New Testament

For if the message delivered through angels proved to be true, and every transgression and act of disobedience met with just retribution,

Williams New Testament

For if the message spoken through angels proved to be valid, and every violation and infraction of it had its adequate penalty,

World English Bible

For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense;

Worrell New Testament

For, if the word spoken through angels became steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a righteous recompense,

Worsley New Testament

For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received it's just recompence;

Youngs Literal Translation

for if the word being spoken through messengers did become stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience did receive a just recompense,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
For
γάρ 
Gar 
for, , not tr
Usage: 825

if
εἰ 
Ei 
if, whether, that, not tr,
Usage: 218

the word
λόγος 
Logos 
word, saying, account, speech, Word , thing, not tr,
Usage: 256

λαλέω 
Laleo 
Usage: 235

by
διά 
Dia 
by, through, with, for, for ... sake, therefore , for this cause , because,
Usage: 527

G32
ἄγγελος 
Aggelos 
Usage: 153

was
γίνομαι 
Ginomai 
be, come to pass, be made, be done, come, become, God forbid , arise, have, be fulfilled, be married to, be preferred, not tr, , vr done
Usage: 531

βέβαιος 
Bebaios 
Usage: 9

and



and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0
Usage: 0

πᾶς 
Pas 
Usage: 704

παράβασις 
Parabasis 
Usage: 7

παρακοή 
Parakoe 
Usage: 3

λαμβάνω 
lambano 
receive, take, have, catch, not tr,
Usage: 178

a
μισθαποδοσία 
Misthapodosia 
Usage: 3

ἐνδικος 
Endikos 
Usage: 2

Images Hebrews 2:2

Prayers for Hebrews 2:2

Context Readings

Warning Not To Neglect Salvation

1 We must, therefore, pay even more attention to what we have heard, so that we will not drift away. 2 For if the message spoken through angels was legally binding and every transgression and disobedience received a just punishment, 3 how will we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was first spoken by the Lord and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him.


Cross References

Acts 7:53

You received the law under the direction of angels and yet have not kept it.”

Hebrews 10:28

If anyone disregards Moses’ law, he dies without mercy, based on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

Galatians 3:19

Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions until the Seed to whom the promise was made would come. The law was put into effect through angels by means of a mediator.

Hebrews 10:35

So don’t throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.

Hebrews 11:26

For he considered the reproach because of the Messiah to be greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, since his attention was on the reward.

Deuteronomy 17:2

“If a man or woman among you in one of your towns that the Lord your God will give you is discovered doing evil in the sight of the Lord your God and violating His covenant

Deuteronomy 17:5

you must bring out to your gates that man or woman who has done this evil thing and stone them to death.

Deuteronomy 17:12

The person who acts arrogantly, refusing to listen either to the priest who stands there serving the Lord your God or to the judge, must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.

Deuteronomy 27:26

‘Anyone who does not put the words of this law into practice is cursed.’
And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

Exodus 32:27-28

He told them, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says, ‘Every man fasten his sword to his side; go back and forth through the camp from entrance to entrance, and each of you kill his brother, his friend, and his neighbor.’”

Leviticus 10:1-2

Aaron’s sons Nadab and Abihu each took his own firepan, put fire in it, placed incense on it, and presented unauthorized fire before the Lord, which He had not commanded them to do.

Leviticus 24:14-16

“Bring the one who has cursed to the outside of the camp and have all who heard him lay their hands on his head; then have the whole community stone him.

Numbers 11:33

While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the Lord’s anger burned against the people, and the Lord struck them with a very severe plague.

Numbers 14:28-37

Tell them: As surely as I live,” this is the Lord’s declaration, “I will do to you exactly as I heard you say.

Numbers 15:30-36

“But the person who acts defiantly, whether native or foreign resident, blasphemes the Lord. That person is to be cut off from his people.

Numbers 16:31-35

Just as he finished speaking all these words, the ground beneath them split open.

Numbers 16:49

But those who died from the plague numbered 14,700, in addition to those who died because of the Korah incident.

Numbers 20:11-12

Then Moses raised his hand and struck the rock twice with his staff, so that a great amount of water gushed out, and the community and their livestock drank.

Numbers 21:6

Then the Lord sent poisonous snakes among the people, and they bit them so that many Israelites died.

Numbers 25:9

but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000.

Deuteronomy 4:3-4

Your eyes have seen what the Lord did at Baal-peor, for the Lord your God destroyed every one of you who followed Baal of Peor.

Deuteronomy 32:2

Let my teaching fall like rain
and my word settle like dew,
like gentle rain on new grass
and showers on tender plants.

Psalm 68:17

God’s chariots are tens of thousands,
thousands and thousands;
the Lord is among them in the sanctuary
as He was at Sinai.

1 Corinthians 10:5-12

But God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness.

Hebrews 1:1

Long ago God spoke to the fathers by the prophets at different times and in different ways.

Hebrews 11:6

Now without faith it is impossible to please God, for the one who draws near to Him must believe that He exists and rewards those who seek Him.

Jude 1:5

Now I want to remind you, though you know all these things: The Lord first saved a people out of Egypt and later destroyed those who did not believe;

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