Hebrews 2:3
Good News Translation
How, then, shall we escape if we pay no attention to such a great salvation? The Lord himself first announced this salvation, and those who heard him proved to us that it is true.

New Revised Standard Version
how can we escape if we neglect so great a salvation? It was declared at first through the Lord, and it was attested to us by those who heard him,

Contemporary English Version
So if we refuse this great way of being saved, how can we hope to escape? The Lord himself was the first to tell about it, and people who heard the message proved to us that it was true.

New American Bible
how shall we escape if we ignore so great a salvation? Announced originally through the Lord, it was confirmed for us by those who had heard.

Douay-Rheims Bible
How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation? Which, having begun to be declared by the Lord, was confirmed unto us by them that heard him.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation? Which, having begun to be declared by the Lord, was confirmed unto us by them that heard him.

How.

Hebrews 4:1,11 Let us fear therefore lest, the promise being left of entering into his rest, any of you should be thought to be wanting. . . .

Hebrews 10:28,29 A man making void the law of Moses dieth without any mercy under two or three witnesses: . . .

Hebrews 12:25 See that you refuse him not that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke upon earth, much more shall not we that turn away from him that speaketh to us from heaven.

Isaiah 20:6 And the inhabitants of this isle shall say in that day: Lo this was our hope, to whom we fled for help, to deliver us from the face of the king of the Assyrians: and how shall we be able to escape?

Ezekiel 17:15,18 But he hath revolted from him and sent ambassadors to Egypt, that it might give him horses, and much people. And shall he that hath done thus prosper, or be saved? and shall he escape that hath broken the covenant? . . .

Matthew 23:33 You serpents, generation of vipers, how will you flee from the judgment of hell?

Romans 2:3 And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them who do such things and dost the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?

1 Thessalonians 5:3 For when they shall say: Peace and security; then shall sudden destruction come upon them, as the pains upon her that is with child, and they shall not escape.

1 Peter 4:17,18 For the time is, that judgment should begin at the house of God. And if at first at us, what shall be the end of them that believe not the gospel of God? . . .

Revelation 6:16,17 And they say to the mountains and the rocks: Fall upon us and hide us from the face of him that sitteth upon the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb. . . .

so.

Hebrews 5:9 And being consummated, he became, to all that obey him, the cause of eternal salvation:

Hebrews 7:25,26 Whereby he is able also to save for ever them that come to God by him; always living to make intercession for us. . . .

Isaiah 12:2 Behold, God is my saviour, I will deal confidently, and will not fear: because the Lord is my strength, and my praise, and he is become my salvation.

Isaiah 51:5,8 My just one is near at hand, my saviour is gone forth, and my arms shall judge the people: the islands shall look for me, and shall patiently wait for my arm. . . .

Isaiah 62:11 Behold the Lord hath made it to be heard in the ends of the earth, tell the daughter of Sion: Behold thy Saviour cometh: behold his reward is with him, and his work before him.

Luke 1:69 And hath raised up an horn of salvation to us, in the house of David his servant.

John 3:16-18 For God so loved the world, as to give his only begotten Son: that whosoever believeth in him may not perish, but may have life everlasting. . . .

Acts 4:12 Neither is there salvation in any other. For there is no other name under heaven given to men, whereby we must be saved.

1 Timothy 1:15 A faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the chief.

Titus 2:11 For the grace of God our Saviour hath appeared to all men:

Revelation 7:10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying: Salvation to our God, who sitteth upon the throne and to the Lamb.

began.

Hebrews 1:2 In these days, hath spoken to us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the world.

Matthew 4:17 From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say: Do penance, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

Mark 1:14 And after that John was delivered up, Jesus came in Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God,

Luke 24:19 To whom he said: What things? And they said: Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who was a prophet, mighty in work and word before God and all the people.

Acts 2:22 Ye men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him, in the midst of you, as you also know:

and was.

Mark 16:15-19 And he said to them: Go ye into the whole world and preach the gospel to every creature. . . .

Luke 1:2 According as they have delivered them unto us, who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word:

Luke 24:47,48 And that penance and remission of sins should be preached in his name, unto all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. . . .

John 15:27 And you shall give testimony, because you are with me from the beginning.

Acts 1:22 Beginning from the baptism of John, until the day wherein he was taken up from us, one of these must be made a witness with us of his resurrection.

Acts 10:40-42 Him God raised up the third day and gave him to be made manifest, . . .

Context
Salvation Confirmed
2For if the word spoken by angels became steadfast and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward: 3How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation? Which, having begun to be declared by the Lord, was confirmed unto us by them that heard him. 4God also bearing them witness by signs and wonders and divers miracles and distributions of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will.…
Cross References
Isaiah 20:6
And the inhabitants of this isle shall say in that day: Lo this was our hope, to whom we fled for help, to deliver us from the face of the king of the Assyrians: and how shall we be able to escape?

Mark 16:20
But they going forth preached every where: the Lord working withal, and confirming the word with signs that followed.

Luke 1:2
According as they have delivered them unto us, who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word:

Romans 11:14
If, by any means, I may provoke to emulation them who are my flesh and may save some of them.

1 Corinthians 1:21
For, seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world, by wisdom, knew not God, it pleased God, by the foolishness of our preaching, to save them that believe.

Hebrews 1:1
God, who, at sundry times and in divers manners, spoke in times past to the fathers by the prophets, last of all,

Hebrews 1:14
Are they not all ministering spirits, sent to minister for them who shall receive the inheritance of salvation?

Hebrews 5:9
And being consummated, he became, to all that obey him, the cause of eternal salvation:

Hebrews 9:28
So also Christ was offered once to exhaust the sins of many. The second time he shall appear without sin to them that expect him unto salvation.

Hebrews 10:29
How much more, do you think he deserveth worse punishments, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God and hath esteemed the blood of the testament unclean, by which he was sanctified, and hath offered an affront to the Spirit of grace?

Hebrews 12:25
See that you refuse him not that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke upon earth, much more shall not we that turn away from him that speaketh to us from heaven.

1 John 1:1
That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon and our hands have handled, of the word of life.

Jude 1:17
But you, my dearly beloved, be mindful of the words which have been spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ:

Hebrews 2:2
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