Hebrews 2:2

2:2 For if the message spoken through angels proved to be so firm that every violation or disobedience received its just penalty,

Hebrews 2:12

2:12 saying, “I will proclaim your name to my brothers; in the midst of the assembly I will praise you.”

3:8 “Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness.

3:9 “There your fathers tested me and tried me, and they saw my works for forty years.

3:14 For we have become partners with Christ, if in fact we hold our initial confidence firm until the end.

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.

4:6 Therefore it remains for some to enter it, yet those to whom it was previously proclaimed did not enter because of disobedience.

The Need to Move on to Maturity

5:11 On this topic we have much to say and it is difficult to explain, since you have become sluggish in hearing.

6:12 so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherit the promises.

6:20 where Jesus our forerunner entered on our behalf, since he became a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.

7:4 But see how great he must be, if Abraham the patriarch gave him a tithe of his plunder.

10:5 So when he came into the world, he said,

“Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me.

10:36 For you need endurance in order to do God’s will and so receive what is promised.

11:29 By faith they crossed the Red Sea as if on dry ground, but when the Egyptians tried it, they were swallowed up.

11:33 Through faith they conquered kingdoms, administered justice, gained what was promised, shut the mouths of lions,

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