Hebrews 10:28 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁸ A man who has violated the law of Moses dies without mercy at the testimony of two or three witnesses.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁸ He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁸ Any person who has violated and [thus] rejected and set at naught the Law of Moses is put to death without pity or mercy on the evidence of two or three witnesses. [Deut. 17:2-6.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁸ A man that hath set at nought Moses’ law dieth without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses:

Common English Bible

²⁸ When someone rejected the Law from Moses, they were put to death without mercy on the basis of the testimony of two or three witnesses.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁸ If someone dies for acting against the law of Moses, and is shown no compassion because of two or three witnesses,

Hebrews 10:28 Cross References

2 Samuel 12:13

David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” And Nathan said to David, “The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die.

2 Samuel 12:9

Why have you despised the word of the Lord, to do what is evil in his sight? You have smitten Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the Ammonites.

Isaiah 27:11

When its boughs are dry, they are broken; women come and make a fire of them. For this is a people without discernment; therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, he that formed them will show them no favor.

Jeremiah 13:14

And I will dash them one against another, fathers and sons together, says the Lord. I will not pity or spare or have compassion, that I should not destroy them.’ ”

Numbers 15:36

And all the congregation brought him outside the camp, and stoned him to death with stones, as the Lord commanded Moses.

Matthew 18:16

But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every word may be confirmed by the evidence of two or three witnesses.

John 8:17

In your law it is written that the testimony of two men is true;

Romans 9:15

For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

2 Corinthians 13:1

This is the third time I am coming to you. Any charge must be sustained by the evidence of two or three witnesses.

Deuteronomy 19:13

Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall purge the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, so that it may be well with you.

Deuteronomy 19:15

“A single witness shall not prevail against a man for any crime or for any wrong in connection with any offense that he has committed; only on the evidence of two witnesses, or of three witnesses, shall a charge be sustained.

Hebrews 12:25

See that you do not refuse him who is speaking. For if they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less shall we escape if we reject him who warns from heaven.

Hebrews 2:2

For if the message declared by angels was valid and every transgression or disobedience received a just retribution,

James 2:13

For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy; yet mercy triumphs over judgment.