Hebrews 12:25

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

See that you do not 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 will we escape if we reject the one who warns from heaven!

Cross References

1 Kings 12:16

When all Israel saw that the king would not listen to them, the people answered the king, “What share do we have in David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, O David.” So Israel went away to their tents.

2 Chronicles 7:19

“But if you turn aside and forsake my statutes and my commandments that I have set before you and go and serve other gods and worship them,

Exodus 16:29

See! The Lord has given you the Sabbath; therefore on the sixth day he gives you food for two days; each of you stay where you are; do not leave your place on the seventh day.”

Exodus 20:22

The Lord said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the Israelites: You have seen for yourselves how I spoke with you from heaven.

Proverbs 1:24

Because I have called and you refused, have stretched out my hand and no one heeded,

Proverbs 1:32

For waywardness kills the simple, and the complacency of fools destroys them;

Proverbs 13:18

Poverty and disgrace are for the one who ignores instruction, but one who heeds reproof is honored.

Proverbs 15:32

Those who ignore instruction despise themselves, but those who heed admonition gain understanding.

Proverbs 8:33

Hear instruction and be wise, and do not neglect it.

Isaiah 48:6

You have heard; now see all this; and will you not declare it? From this time forward I tell you new things, hidden things that you have not known.

Isaiah 64:9

Do not be exceedingly angry, O Lord, and do not remember iniquity forever. Now consider, we are all your people.

Jeremiah 11:10

They have turned back to the iniquities of their ancestors of old, who refused to heed my words; they have gone after other gods to serve them; the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken the covenant that I made with their ancestors.

Ezekiel 5:6

But she has rebelled against my ordinances and my statutes, becoming more wicked than the nations and the countries all around her, rejecting my ordinances and not following my statutes.

Zechariah 7:11

But they refused to listen and turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their ears in order not to hear.

Numbers 32:15

If you turn away from following him, he will again abandon them in the wilderness, and you will destroy all this people.”

Matthew 17:5

While he was still speaking, suddenly a bright cloud overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is my Son, the Beloved; with him I am well pleased; listen to him!”

Matthew 8:4

Then Jesus said to him, “See that you say nothing to anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.”

Acts 7:35

“It was this Moses whom they rejected when they said, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’ and whom God now sent as both ruler and liberator through the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

Deuteronomy 18:19

Anyone who does not heed the words that the prophet shall speak in my name, I myself will hold accountable.

Deuteronomy 30:17

But if your heart turns away and you do not hear but are led astray to bow down to other gods and serve them,

Deuteronomy 4:36

From heaven he made you hear his voice to discipline you. On earth he showed you his great fire, while you heard his words coming out of the fire.

1 Thessalonians 5:15

See that none of you repays evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to all.

2 Timothy 4:4

and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander away to myths.

Hebrews 1:1

Long ago God spoke to our ancestors in many and various ways by the prophets,

Hebrews 11:7

By faith Noah, warned by God about events as yet unseen, respected the warning and built an ark to save his household; by this he condemned the world and became an heir to the righteousness that is in accordance with faith.

Hebrews 12:19

and the sound of a trumpet, and a voice whose words made the hearers beg that not another word be spoken to them.

Hebrews 3:12

Take care, brothers and sisters, that none of you may have an evil, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.

Hebrews 3:17

And with whom was he angry forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

Hebrews 8:5

They offer worship in a sanctuary that is a sketch and shadow of the heavenly one, just as Moses was warned when he was about to erect the tent. For, God said, “See that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown you on the mountain.”

Joshua 22:15

They came to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, in the land of Gilead, and they said to them,

Joshua 22:16

“Thus says the whole congregation of the Lord: What is this treachery that you have committed against the God of Israel in turning away today from following the Lord, by building yourselves an altar today in rebellion against the Lord?

1 Peter 1:22

Now that you have purified your souls by your obedience to the truth so that you have genuine mutual affection, love one another deeply from the heart.

Revelation 19:10

Then I fell down at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, “You must not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers and sisters who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”

Revelation 22:9

but he said to me, “You must not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers and sisters the prophets and with those who keep the words of this book. Worship God!”