Hebrews 2:2
Good News Translation
The message given to our ancestors by the angels was shown to be true, and those who did not follow it or obey it received the punishment they deserved.

New Revised Standard Version
For if the message declared through angels was valid, and every transgression or disobedience received a just penalty,

Contemporary English Version
The message spoken by angels proved to be true, and all who disobeyed or rejected it were punished as they deserved.

New American Bible
For if the word announced through angels proved firm, and every transgression and disobedience received its just recompense,

Douay-Rheims Bible
For if the word spoken by angels became steadfast and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For if the word spoken by angels became steadfast and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward:

spoken.

Deuteronomy 32:2 Let my doctrine gather as the rain, let my speech distil as the dew, as a shower upon the herb, and as drops upon the grass.

Psalm 68:17 The chariot of God is attended by ten thousands; thousands of them that rejoice: the Lord is among them in Sina, in the holy place.

Acts 7:53 Who have received the law by the disposition of angels and have not kept it.

Galatians 3:19 Why then was the law? It was set because of transgressions, until the seed should come to whom he made the promise, being ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.

every.

Hebrews 10:28 A man making void the law of Moses dieth without any mercy under two or three witnesses:

Exodus 32:27,28 And he said to them: Thus saith the Lord God of Israel: Put every man his sword upon his thigh: go, and return from gate to gate through the midst of the camp, and let every man kill his brother, and friend, and neighbour. . . .

Leviticus 10:1,2 And Nadab and Abiu, the sons of Aaron, taking their censers, put fire therein, and incense on it, offering before the Lord strange fire: which was not commanded them. . . .

Leviticus 24:14-16 Saying: Bring forth the blasphemer without the camp: and let them that heard him, put their hands upon his head: and let all the people stone him. . . .

Numbers 11:33 As yet the flesh was between their teeth, neither had that kind of meat failed: when behold the wrath of the Lord being provoked against the people, struck them with an exceeding great plague.

Numbers 14:28-37 Say therefore to them: As I live, saith the Lord: According as you have spoken in my hearing, so will I do to you. . . .

Numbers 15:30-36 But the soul that committeth any thing through pride, whether he be born in the land or a stranger (because he hath been rebellious against the Lord) shall be cut off from among his people: . . .

Numbers 16:31-35,49 And immediately as he had made an end of speaking, the earth broke asunder under their feet: . . .

Numbers 20:11,12 And when Moses bad lifted up his hand, and struck the rock twice with the rod, there came forth water in great abundance, so that the people and their cattle drank, . . .

Numbers 21:6 Wherefore the Lord sent among the people fiery serpents, which bit them and killed many of them.

Numbers 25:9 And there were slain four and twenty thousand men.

Deuteronomy 4:3,4 Your eyes have seen all that the Lord hath done against Beelphegor, how he hath destroyed all his worshippers from among you. . . .

Deuteronomy 17:2,5,12 When there shall be found among you within any of thy gates, which the Lord thy God shall give thee, man or woman that do evil in the sight of the Lord thy God, and transgress his covenant, . . .

Deuteronomy 27:26 Cursed be he that abideth not in the words of this law, and fulfilleth them not in work: and all the people shall say: Amen.

1 Corinthians 10:5-12 But with most of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the desert. . . .

Jude 1:5 I will therefore admonish you, though ye once knew all things, that Jesus, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, did afterwards destroy them that believed not.

recompense.

Hebrews 10:35 Do not therefore lose your confidence which hath a great reward.

Hebrews 11:6,26 But without faith it is impossible to please God. For he that cometh to God must believe that he is: and is a rewarder to them that seek him. . . .

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Context
Salvation Confirmed
1Therefore ought we more diligently to observe the things which we have heard lest perhaps we should let them slip. 2For if the word spoken by angels became steadfast and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward: 3How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation? Which, having begun to be declared by the Lord, was confirmed unto us by them that heard him.…
Cross References
Acts 7:53
Who have received the law by the disposition of angels and have not kept it.

Hebrews 1:1
God, who, at sundry times and in divers manners, spoke in times past to the fathers by the prophets, last of all,

Hebrews 10:28
A man making void the law of Moses dieth without any mercy under two or three witnesses:

Hebrews 10:35
Do not therefore lose your confidence which hath a great reward.

Hebrews 11:26
Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasure of the Egyptians. For he looked unto the reward.

Hebrews 12:25
See that you refuse him not that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke upon earth, much more shall not we that turn away from him that speaketh to us from heaven.

2 Peter 1:19
And we have the more firm prophetical word: whereunto you do well to attend, as to a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn and the day star arise in your hearts.

Hebrews 2:1
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