For this reason we ought the more earnestly to attend to what we have heard, least by any means we should be found deficient.

how shall we escape, if we neglect so great a salvation? which began to be declared by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by them that heard Him;

wherefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, They are always erring in their heart, and they have not known my ways:

Take heed, my brethren, least there be in any of you a wicked heart of unbelief in departing from the living God:

harden not your hearts, as in the provocation." For some that heard did provoke; but not all that came out of Egypt with Moses.

for we are graciously offered it, as they also were. But the word, which they heard, did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.

For the word of God is lively and efficacious, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, and of the very joints and marrow, and judging the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Who in the days of his flesh, offered prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears, to Him that was able to save Him from death, and was heard in what He feared;

and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words, which they that heard, intreated that the word might not any more be thus delivered to them:

be not then carried about by various and strange doctrines; for it is good that the heart be established by grace, and not in meats, in which those that have been most exact, have not profited by them.