how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation?which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard;

Now consider how great this man was, to whom even Abraham, the patriarch, gave a tenth out of the best spoils.

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, cleanse our conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

How much worse punishment, do you think, will he be judged worthy of, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

See that you do not refuse him who speaks. For if they did not escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,

So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest.

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.

Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

For this is how the holy women before, who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:

the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment;

This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.

But whoever keeps his word, God's love has truly been perfected in him. This is how we know that we are in him:

Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God; and such we are. For this cause the world does not know us, because it did not know him.

But whoever has the world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him?

Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If therefore you do not wake up, I will come as a thief, and you won't know what hour I will come to you.

They called out with a loud voice, saying, "How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?"