Hebrews 12:25

New English Translation

Take care not to refuse the one who is speaking! For if they did not escape when they refused the one who warned them on earth, how much less shall we, if we reject the one who warns from heaven?

Cross References

1 Kings 12:16

When all Israel saw that the king refused to listen to them, the people answered the king, “We have no portion in David, no share in the son of Jesse! Return to your homes, O Israel! Now, look after your own dynasty, O David!” So Israel returned to their homes.

2 Chronicles 7:19

“But if you people ever turn away from me, fail to obey the regulations and rules I instructed you to keep, and decide to serve and worship other gods,

Exodus 16:29

See, because the Lord has given you the Sabbath, that is why he is giving you food for two days on the sixth day. Each of you stay where you are; let no one go out of his place on the seventh day.”

Exodus 20:22

The Lord said to Moses: “Thus you will tell the Israelites: ‘You yourselves have seen that I have spoken with you from heaven.

Proverbs 1:24

However, because I called but you refused to listen, because I stretched out my hand but no one paid attention,

Proverbs 1:32

For the waywardness of the simpletons will kill them, and the careless ease of fools will destroy them.

Proverbs 13:18

The one who neglects discipline ends up in poverty and shame, but the one who accepts reproof is honored.

Proverbs 15:32

The one who refuses correction despises himself, but whoever hears reproof acquires understanding.

Proverbs 8:33

Listen to my instruction so that you may be wise, and do not neglect it.

Isaiah 48:6

You have heard; now look at all the evidence! Will you not admit that what I say is true? From this point on I am announcing to you new events that are previously unrevealed and you do not know about.

Isaiah 64:9

Lord, do not be too angry! Do not hold our sins against us continually! Take a good look at your people, at all of us!

Jeremiah 11:10

They have gone back to the evil ways of their ancestors of old who refused to obey what I told them. They, too, have paid allegiance to other gods and worshiped them. Both the nation of Israel and the nation of Judah have violated the covenant I made with their ancestors.

Ezekiel 5:6

Then she defied my regulations and my statutes, becoming more wicked than the nations and the countries around her. Indeed, they have rejected my regulations, and they do not follow my statutes.

Zechariah 7:11

“But they refused to pay attention, turning away stubbornly and stopping their ears so they could not hear.

Numbers 32:15

For if you turn away from following him, he will once again abandon them in the wilderness, and you will be the reason for their destruction.”

Matthew 17:5

While he was still speaking, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is my one dear Son, in whom I take great delight. Listen to him!”

Matthew 8:4

Then Jesus said to him, “See that you do not speak to anyone, but go, show yourself to a priest, and bring the offering that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.”

Acts 7:35

This same Moses they had rejected, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and judge?’ God sent as both ruler and deliverer through the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

Deuteronomy 18:19

I will personally hold responsible anyone who then pays no attention to the words that prophet speaks in my name.

Deuteronomy 30:17

However, if you turn aside and do not obey, but are lured away to worship and serve other gods,

Deuteronomy 4:36

From heaven he spoke to you in order to teach you, and on earth he showed you his great fire from which you also heard his words.

1 Thessalonians 5:15

See that no one pays back evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue what is good for one another and for all.

2 Timothy 4:4

And they will turn away from hearing the truth, but on the other hand they will turn aside to myths.

Hebrews 1:1

After God spoke long ago in various portions and in various ways to our ancestors through the prophets,

Hebrews 11:7

By faith Noah, when he was warned about things not yet seen, with reverent regard constructed an ark for the deliverance of his family. Through faith he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

Hebrews 12:19

and the blast of a trumpet and a voice uttering words such that those who heard begged to hear no more.

Hebrews 3:12

See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has an evil, unbelieving heart that forsakes the living God.

Hebrews 3:17

And against whom was God provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?

Hebrews 8:5

The place where they serve is a sketch and shadow of the heavenly sanctuary, just as Moses was warned by God as he was about to complete the tabernacle. For he says, “See that you make everything according to the design shown to you on the mountain.”

Joshua 22:15

They went to the land of Gilead to the Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and said to them:

Joshua 22:16

“The entire community of the Lord says, ‘Why have you disobeyed the God of Israel by turning back today from following the Lord? You built an altar for yourselves and have rebelled today against the Lord.

1 Peter 1:22

You have purified your souls by obeying the truth in order to show sincere mutual love. So love one another earnestly from a pure heart.

Revelation 19:10

So I threw myself down at his feet to worship him, but he said, “Do not do this! I am only a fellow servant with you and your brothers who hold to the testimony about Jesus. Worship God, for the testimony about Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”

Revelation 22:9

But he said to me, “Do not do this! I am a fellow servant with you and with your brothers the prophets, and with those who obey the words of this book. Worship God!”