Heb 2:2-3, 3:17, 10:28-29 | ISV | STEP | For if the message spoken by angels was reliable, and every violation and act of disobedience received its just punishment,

Hebrews 2:2-3

2 For if the message spoken by angels was reliable, and every violation and act of disobedience received its just punishment,Num 15:30-31; Deut 4:3; 27:26; 33:2; Ps 68:17; Acts 7:53; Gal 3:19 3 how will we escape if we neglect a salvation as great as this? It was first proclaimed by the Lord himself, and then it was confirmed to us by those who heard him,Matt 4:17; Mark 1:14; Luke 1:2; Heb 1:2; 10:28-29; 12:25

17 And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned and whose bodies fell in the wilderness?Num 14:22, 29; 26:65; Ps 106:26; 1Cor 10:5; Jude 1:5

28 Anyone who violates the law of Moses dies without mercy “on the testimony of two or three witnesses.” ^{▼▼Deut 17:6}Deut 17:2, 6; 19:15; Matt 18:16; John 8:17; 2Cor 13:1; Heb 2:2 29 How much more severe a punishment do you think that person deserves who tramples on God's Son, treats as common the blood of the covenant by which it ^{▼▼Or he} was sanctified, and insults the Spirit of grace?Matt 12:31-32; 1Cor 11:29; Eph 4:30; Heb 2:3; 12:25; 13:20