Let us not give up meeting together, but let us encourage one another and all the more as you see the Day approaching. If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, but only a..
fearful expectation of judgement & raging fire that will consume the enemies of God. Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of 2 or 3 witnesses. How much more severely do you think a man deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God..
under foot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified him and who has insulted the Spirit of grace? For we know him who said, it is mine to avenge, I will repay. The LORD will judge his people.
It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
Remember those earlier days after you had received the light when you stood your ground in great contest in the face of suffering. Sometimes you were publicly exposed to insult & persecution. At other times you stood side by side with those who were so treated...
Do not throw away your confidence. It will be richly rewarded. You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised.
For in just a very little while, "He who is coming will come and not delay. But my righteous one will live by faith. And if he shrinks back, I will not be pleased with him."
But we are not of those who shrink back & are destroyed, but of those who believe & are saved. Hebrews 10
But we are not of those who shrink back & are destroyed, but of those who believe & are saved. Hebrews 10
