Hebrews 2:3 - Tree of Life Version

³ how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation? It was first spoken through the Lord and confirmed to us by those who heard.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ how shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ How shall we escape [appropriate retribution] if we neglect and refuse to pay attention to such a great salvation [as is now offered to us, letting it drift past us forever]? For it was declared at first by the Lord [Himself], and it was confirmed to us and proved to be real and genuine by those who personally heard [Him speak].

American Standard Version (1901)

³ how shall we escape, if we neglect so great a salvation? which having at the first been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed unto us by them that heard;

Common English Bible

³ how will we escape if we ignore such a great salvation? It was first announced through the Lord, and then it was confirmed by those who heard him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ in what way might we escape, if we neglect such a great salvation? For though initially it had begun to be described by the Lord, it was confirmed among us by those who heard him,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation? which having begun to be declared by the Lord, was confirmed unto us by them that heard him.

Hebrews 2:3 Cross References

Isaiah 12:2

Behold, God is my salvation! I will trust and will not be afraid. For the Lord Adonai is my strength and my song. He also has become my salvation.”

Isaiah 20:6

Then the inhabitants of the coastland will say in that day, ‘Look, such is our hope—there we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria! Now, how will we escape?’”

Isaiah 51:5

My righteousness is near, My salvation has gone out, and My arms will judge the nations. The coastlands will wait for Me— for My arm they will wait expectantly.

Isaiah 51:8

For the moth will eat them like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool. But My righteousness will be forever and My salvation for all generations.”

Isaiah 62:11

Behold, Adonai has proclaimed to the end of the earth: Say to the Daughter of Zion, “Behold, your salvation comes! See, His reward is with Him, and His recompense before Him.”

Ezekiel 17:15

“However, he rebelled against him in sending his messengers into Egypt, so they might give him horses and many people. Will he succeed? Will one doing such things escape? Will he break a covenant and escape?

Ezekiel 17:18

“Since he has despised the oath by breaking the covenant, and behold, he had given his hand yet did all these things, he will not escape.

Matthew 23:33

O snakes, you brood of vipers! How will you escape the condemnation of Gehenna?

Matthew 4:17

From then on, Yeshua began to proclaim, “Turn away from your sins, for the kingdom of heaven is near.”

Mark 1:14

Now after John was put in jail, Yeshua came into the Galilee, proclaiming the Good News of God.

Luke 1:2

just as they were handed down to us from the start by the eyewitnesses and reporters of the word.

Luke 1:69

He has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of His servant David,

Luke 24:19

Yeshua said to them, “What kind of things?” And they said to Him, “The things about Yeshua from Natzeret, who was a Prophet, powerful in deed and word before God and all the people—

John 15:27

And you also testify, because you have been with Me from the beginning.”

Acts 1:22

beginning with His immersion by John until the day He was taken up from us—must become a witness with us of His resurrection.”

Acts 2:22

“Men of Israel, hear these words! Yeshua ha-Natzrati—a Man authenticated to you by God with mighty deeds and wonders and signs God performed through Him in your midst, as you yourselves know—

Acts 4:12

There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved!”

Romans 11:14

if somehow I might provoke to jealousy my own flesh and blood and save some of them.

Romans 2:3

But you, O man—judging those practicing such things yet doing the same—do you suppose that you will escape the judgment of God?

1 Corinthians 1:21

For seeing that—in God’s wisdom—the world through its wisdom did not know God, God was pleased—through the foolishness of the message proclaimed—to save those who believe.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

When they are saying, “Shalom and safety,” sudden destruction comes upon them like a woman having birth pains in the womb—there is no way they will escape.

1 Timothy 1:15

Trustworthy is the saying and deserving of complete acceptance: “Messiah Yeshua came into the world to save sinners”—of whom I am foremost.

Titus 2:11

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,

Hebrews 1:1

At many times and in many ways, God spoke long ago to the fathers through the prophets.

Hebrews 1:14

Are they not all ministering spirits, sent out for service to those about to inherit salvation?

Hebrews 1:2

In these last days He has spoken to us through a Son, whom He appointed heir of all things and through whom He created the universe.

Hebrews 12:25

See to it that you do not refuse the One who is speaking! For if they did not escape when they refused the One who was warning them on earth, much less will we escape if we reject the One who warns us from heaven.

Hebrews 4:1

Let us fear then! Though a promise of entering His rest is left open, some of you would seem to have fallen short.

Hebrews 4:11

Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one may fall through the same pattern of disobedience.

Hebrews 5:9

And once made perfect, He became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey Him—

Hebrews 9:28

so also Messiah, was offered once to bear the sins of many. He will appear a second time, apart from sin, to those eagerly awaiting Him for salvation.

1 John 1:1

What was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and touched with our hands, concerning the Word of life—

Jude 1:17

But you, loved ones, ought to remember the words previously proclaimed by the emissaries of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah—

Revelation 7:10

and crying out with a loud voice, saying, “Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”