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Hebrews 2:1

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THEREFORE we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
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  1. Luke 8:15Rank 1 from verse 1
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    15But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.

  2. 2 Peter 1:12–13Rank 2 from verse 1
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    12Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.

    13Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;

  3. Proverbs 7:1–2Rank 3 from verse 1
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    1MY son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.

    2Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.

  4. Proverbs 2:1–6Rank 4 from verse 1
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    1MY son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;

    2So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;

    3Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;

    4If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;

    5Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.

    6For the Lord giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.

  5. Deuteronomy 4:9Rank 5 from verse 1
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    9Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons’ sons;

  6. Hebrews 1:1–2Rank 6 from verse 1
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    1GOD, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,

    2Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;

  7. 2 Peter 3:1Rank 7 from verse 1
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    1THIS second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:

  8. 2 Peter 1:15Rank 8 from verse 1
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    15Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.

  9. Joshua 23:11–12Rank 9 from verse 1
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    11Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the Lord your God.

    12Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you:

  10. Proverbs 3:21Rank 10 from verse 1
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    21¶ My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:

  11. Proverbs 4:1–4Rank 11 from verse 1
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    1HEAR, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.

    2For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.

    3For I was my father’s son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.

    4He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.

  12. Proverbs 4:20–22Rank 12 from verse 1
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    20¶ My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.

    21Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.

    22For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.

  13. Psalms 119:9Rank 13 from verse 1
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    9Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.

  14. 1 Chronicles 22:13Rank 14 from verse 1
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    13Then shalt thou prosper, if thou takest heed to fulfil the statutes and judgments which the Lord charged Moses with concerning Israel: be strong, and of good courage; dread not, nor be dismayed.

  15. Deuteronomy 32:46–47Rank 15 from verse 1
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    46And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.

    47For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.

  16. Hebrews 12:5Rank 16 from verse 1
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    5And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:

  17. Deuteronomy 4:23Rank 17 from verse 1
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    23Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the Lord your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the Lord thy God hath forbidden thee.

  18. Mark 8:18Rank 18 from verse 1
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    18Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember?

  19. Matthew 16:9Rank 19 from verse 1
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    9Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?

  20. Hebrews 12:25–26Rank 20 from verse 1
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    25See 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:

    26Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.

  21. Hebrews 2:2–4Rank 21 from verse 1
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    2For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward;

    3How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;

    4God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?

  22. Habakkuk 2:16Rank 22 from verse 1
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    16Thou art filled with shame for glory: drink thou also, and let thy foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the Lord’s right hand shall be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing shall be on thy glory.

  23. Luke 9:44Rank 23 from verse 1
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    44Let these sayings sink down into your ears: for the Son of man shall be delivered into the hands of men.

  24. Habakkuk 1:6Rank 24 from verse 1
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    6For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not theirs.

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Hebrews 2:1

COMBINED MEANING

earnest

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Sense 1: Sincere, intense, serious, pressing, or diligent. Sense 2: A pledge or first portion given as assurance of promised fulfilment.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

heed

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Careful attention, notice, or regard; to watch, consider, listen to, or guard oneself.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

which

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1. An interrogative or relative pronoun identifying one or more persons or things from a stated or implied set. 2. That which; what.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

heard

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Sense 1: Perceived by the ear. Sense 2: Received or learned by report. Sense 3: Listened to, regarded, or heeded. Sense 4: Favourably attended to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

lest

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For fear that, to prevent the possibility that, or so that an undesired or warned-of result may not occur.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

time

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A particular portion or part of duration, whether past, present or future.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

should

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A verb expressing duty, propriety, expectation, intention, purpose, condition, appointed outcome, or a future event viewed from another time or statement.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

let

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Sense 1: To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain. Sense 2: To lower or send down.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

slip

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Sense 1: To slide or lose firm footing. Sense 2: To escape or be lost from one's hold or attention.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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2:1THEREFORE we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.

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2:2For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward;

2:3How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;

2:4God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?

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