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, 26 whose voice shook the earth at that time, but now he has promised, saying,

“Yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also heaven.”[e]

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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
  5. Hebrews 12:26 A quotation from Hag 2:6