how can we escape, if we pay no attention at all to a salvation that is so great? This is so because it was first proclaimed by the Lord Himself, and then it was proved to us to be valid by the very men who heard Him themselves,

No creature of His can escape God's sight, but everything is bare and exposed to the eyes of Him to whom we have to give account.

Continue to live in peace with everybody and strive for that consecration without which no one can see the Lord.

For you have not come to a blazing fire that can be touched, to gloom and darkness, storm

See to it that you do not refuse to listen to Him who is speaking to you. For if they did not escape, because they refused to listen to him who warned them here on earth, how much less can we, if we reject Him who is from heaven?

but now His promise is, "Once more I will make not only the earth but heaven itself tremble." Now that expression, "Once more," signifies the final removal of the things that can be shaken, to let remain the things that cannot be shaken.

So we can confidently say: "The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can men do to me?"