Hebrews 12:25 BSB — MannaFest

Hebrews 12:25

See to it that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if the people did not escape when they refused Him who warned them on earth, how much less will we escape if we reject Him who warns us from heaven?

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ASV

See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not when they refused him that warned them on earth, much more shall not we escape who turn away from him that warneth from heaven:

KJV

See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:

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Commentary

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Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

See that ye refuse not - That you do not reject or disregard. Him that speaketh - That is, in the gospel. Do not turn away from him who has addressed you in the new dispensation, and called you to obey and serve him. The meaning is, that God had addressed “them” in the gospel as really as he had done the Hebrews on Mount Sinai, and that there was as much to be dreaded in disregarding his voice now as there was then.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

Refuse not - By unbelief. Him that speaketh - And whose speaking even now is a prelude to the final scene. The same voice which spake both by the law and in the gospel, when heard from heaven, will shake heaven and earth.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Now it is in the gospel that God speaks to men in the most excellent manner. For, (1.) He now speaks from a higher and more glorious seat and throne, not from mount Sinai, which was on this earth, but from heaven. (2.) He speaks now more immediately by his inspired word and by his Spirit, which are his witnesses.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

As faith, so holy fear, is necessary to acceptable worship. [3.] It is only the grace of God that enables us to worship God in a right manner: nature cannot come up to it; it can produce neither that precious faith nor that holy fear that is necessary to acceptable worship. [4.] God is the same just and righteous God under the gospel that he appeared to be under the law.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 1888: “The Blood of Sprinkling” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1886)

And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel. See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven."—Hebrews 12:24, 25. WE ARE JOYFULLY REMINDED by the apostle that we are not come to Mount Sinai and its overwhelming manifestations.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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Original language & word study

23 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Βλέπετε	Blepete	do take heed	G991 →
μὴ	mē	lest	G3361 →
παραιτήσησθε	paraitēsēsthe	you may refuse	G3868 →
τὸν	ton	the [One]	G3588 →
λαλοῦντα·	lalounta	speaking;	G2980 →
εἰ	ei	If	G1487 →
γὰρ	gar	for	G1063 →
ἐκεῖνοι	ekeinoi	they	G1565 →
οὐκ	ouk	not	G3756 →
ἐξέφυγον	exephugon	escaped	G1628 →
ἐπὶ	epi	on	G1909 →
γῆς	gēs	earth	G1093 →
παραιτησάμενοι	paraitēsamenoi	having refused	G3868 →
τὸν	ton	the [One]	G3588 →
χρηματίζοντα,	chrēmatizonta	divinely instructing [them],	G5537 →
πολὺ	polu	much	G4183 →
μᾶλλον	mallon	less	G3123 →
ἡμεῖς	hēmeis	we ourselves	G3165 →
οἱ	hoi	<the>	G3588 →
τὸν	ton	the [One]	G3588 →
ἀπ᾽	ap᾽	from	G575 →
οὐρανῶν	ouranōn	[the] heavens	G3772 →
ἀποστρεφόμενοι,	apostrephomenoi	turning away from,	G654 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Hebrews 8:5
The place where they serve is a copy and shadow of what is in heaven. This is why Moses was warned when he was about to build the tabernacle: “See to it that you…
leads to
- Exodus 25:40
  See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.
- Colossians 2:17
  These are a shadow of the things to come, but the body that casts it belongs to Christ.
- Hebrews 10:1
  For the law is only a shadow of the good things to come, not the realities themselves. It can never, by the same sacrifices offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near…
Through
Hebrews 11:7
By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in godly fear built an ark to save his family. By faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes…
leads to
- Genesis 6:13
  Then God said to Noah, “The end of all living creatures has come before Me, because through them the earth is full of violence. Now behold, I will destroy both them and the earth.
- 1 Peter 3:20
  who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In the ark a few people, only eight souls, were saved through water.
- Ezekiel 14:14
  then even if these three men—Noah, Daniel, and Job—were in it, their righteousness could deliver only themselves, declares the Lord GOD.
- Luke 17:26
  Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man:
- Romans 4:13

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Hebrews

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Hebrews