23 and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of righteous people made perfect, 24 and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood[a] that speaks better than Abel’s does.

25 Watch out that you do not refuse the one who is speaking! For if those did not escape when they[b] refused the one who warned them on earth, much less will we escape,[c] if we[d] reject the one who warns from heaven,

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 12:24 Literally “to the blood of sprinkling”
  2. Hebrews 12:25 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the temporal participle (“refused”)
  3. Hebrews 12:25 *Here the verb “will … escape” is an understood repetition from the previous clause
  4. Hebrews 12:25 Here “if” is supplied as a component of the participle (“reject”) which is understood as conditional

23 to the church of the firstborn,(A) whose names are written in heaven.(B) You have come to God, the Judge of all,(C) to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,(D) 24 to Jesus the mediator(E) of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood(F) that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.(G)

25 See to it that you do not refuse(H) him who speaks.(I) If they did not escape when they refused him who warned(J) them on earth, how much less will we, if we turn away from him who warns us from heaven?(K)

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