Hebrews 10:27-28

10:27 but only a certain fearful expectation of judgment and a fury of fire that will consume God’s enemies. 10:28 Someone who rejected the law of Moses was put to death without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

Hebrews 12:15

12:15 See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God, that no one be like a bitter root springing up and causing trouble, and through him many become defiled.

Hebrews 4:1

God’s Promised Rest

4:1 Therefore we must be wary that, while the promise of entering his rest remains open, none of you may seem to have come short of it.

Hebrews 5:4

5:4 And no one assumes this honor on his own initiative, but only when called to it by God, as in fact Aaron was.

Hebrews 12:7

12:7 Endure your suffering 10  as discipline; 11  God is treating you as sons. For what son is there that a father does not discipline?

Hebrews 12:16

12:16 And see to it that no one becomes 12  an immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal. 13 

Hebrews 2:6

2:6 Instead someone testified somewhere:

What is man that you think of him 14  or the son of man that you care for him?

Hebrews 3:13

3:13 But exhort one another each day, as long as it is called “Today,” that none of you may become hardened by sin’s deception.

Hebrews 4:11

4:11 Thus we must make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by following the same pattern of disobedience.

Hebrews 7:11

Jesus and the Priesthood of Melchizedek

7:11 So if perfection had in fact been possible through the Levitical priesthood – for on that basis 15  the people received the law – what further need would there have been for another priest to arise, said to be in the order of Melchizedek and not in Aaron’s order?


tn Grk “zeal,” recalling God’s jealous protection of his holiness and honor (cf. Exod 20:5).

tn Grk “the enemies.”

tn Grk “dies.”

sn An allusion to Deut 17:6.

tn Grk “that there not be any root of bitterness,” but referring figuratively to a person who causes trouble (as in Deut 29:17 [LXX] from which this is quoted).

tn Grk “let us fear.”

sn Honor refers here to the honor of the high priesthood.

10 tn Grk “by himself, on his own.”

11 tn Grk “being called by God.”

11 tn Grk “endure,” with the object (“your suffering”) understood from the context.

12 tn Or “in order to become disciplined.”

13 tn Grk “that there not be any,” continuing from v. 15.

14 sn An allusion to Gen 27:34-41.

15 tn Grk “remember him.”

17 tn Grk “based on it.”