Hebrews 2:3 Cross References - Moffatt

³ how shall we escape the penalty for neglecting a salvation which was originally proclaimed by the Lord himself and guaranteed to us by those who heard him,

¹⁷ From that day Jesus began to preach, saying, "Repent, the Reign of heaven is near."

³³ You serpents! you brood of vipers! how can you escape being sentenced to Gehenna?

¹⁴ After John had been arrested, Jesus went to Galilee preaching the gospel of God;

¹⁵ And he said to them, "Go to all the world and preach the gospel to every creature: ¹⁶ he who believes and is baptized shall be saved, but he who will not believe shall be condemned. ¹⁷ And for those who believe, these miracles will follow: they will cast out daemons in my name, they will talk in foreign tongues, ¹⁸ they will handle serpents, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick and make them well." ¹⁹ Then after speaking to them the Lord Jesus was taken up to heaven and sat down at the right hand of God, ²⁰ while they went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the word by the miracles that endorsed it. (b) But they gave Peter and his companions a brief account of all these injunctions. And, after that, Jesus himself sent out by means of them from east to west the sacred and imperishable message of eternal salvation.

² exactly as these have been handed down to us by the original eyewitnesses who were in the service of the Gospel Message,

⁶⁹ he has raised up a strong saviour for us in the house of his servant David

¹⁹ "What is that?" he said to them. They replied, "All about Jesus of Nazaret! To God and all the people he was a prophet strong in action and utterance,

⁴⁷ and that repentance and the remission of sins must be preached in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. ⁴⁸ To this you must bear testimony.

¹⁶ For God loved the world so dearly that he gave up his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life, instead of perishing. ¹⁷ God did not send his Son into the world to pass sentence on it, but to save the world by him. ¹⁸ He who believes in him is not sentenced; he who will not believe is sentenced already, for having refused to believe in the name of the only Son of God.

²⁷ and you too are witnesses, for you have been with me from the very beginning.

²² from the baptism of John down to the day when he was taken up from us — of these men one must join us as a witness to his resurrection."

²² Men of Israel, listen to my words. Jesus the Nazarene, a man accredited to you by God through miracles, wonders, and signs which God performed by him among you (as you yourselves know),

¹² There is no salvation by anyone else, nor even a second Name under heaven appointed for us men and our salvation."

⁴⁰ but God raised him on the third day, and allowed him to be seen ⁴¹ not by all the People but by witnesses whom God had previously selected, by us who ate and drank with him after his resurrection from the dead, ⁴² when he enjoined us to preach to the People, testifying that this was he whom God has appointed to be judge of the living and of the dead.

³ Very well; and do you imagine you will escape God's doom, O man, you who judge those who practise such vices and do the same yourself?

³ when 'all's well' and 'all is safe' are on the lips of men, then all of a sudden Destruction is upon them, like pangs on a pregnant woman — escape there is none.

¹⁵ It is a sure word, it deserves all praise, that "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners"; and though I am the foremost of sinners,

¹¹ For the grace of God has appeared to save all men,

² but in these days at the end he has spoken to us by a Son — a Son whom he appointed heir of the universe, as it was by him that he created the world.

¹ Well then, as the promise of entrance into his Rest is still left to us, let us be afraid of anyone being judged to have missed it.

¹¹ Let us be eager then to enter that Rest, in case anyone falls into the same sort of disobedience.

⁹ and by being thus perfected he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him,

²⁵ Hence for all time he is able to save those who approach God through him, as he is always living to intercede on their behalf. ²⁶ Such was the high priest for us, saintly, innocent, unstained, lifted high above the heavens, far from all contact with the sinful,

²⁸ Anyone who has rejected the law of Moses dies without mercy, on the evidence of two or of three witnesses. ²⁹ How much heavier, do you suppose, will be the punishment assigned to him who has spurned the Son of God, who has profaned the covenant-blood with which he was sanctified, who has insulted the Spirit of grace?

²⁵ See that you do not refuse to listen to His voice. For if they failed to escape, who refused to listen to their instructor upon earth, much less shall we escape, if we discard Him who speaks from heaven.

¹⁷ It is time for the Judgment to begin with the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the fate of those who refuse obedience to God's gospel? ¹⁸ If the just man is scarcely saved, what will become of the impious and sinful?

¹⁶ calling to the mountains and the rocks, "Fall upon us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne and from the anger of the Lamb; ¹⁷ for the great Day of their anger has come, and who can stand it?"

¹⁰ and they cried with a loud voice, "Saved by our God who is seated on the throne, and by the Lamb!"