The Darby Translation DBY
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1 For this reason we should give heed more abundantly to the things [we have] heard, lest in any way we should slip away.
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We must pay the most careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.
2 For if the word which was spoken by angels was firm, and every transgression and disobedience received just retribution,
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For since the message spoken through angels was binding, and every violation and disobedience received its just punishment,
3 how shall *we* escape if we have been negligent of so great salvation, which, having had its commencement in being spoken [of] by the Lord, has been confirmed to us by those who have heard;
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how shall we escape if we ignore so great a salvation? This salvation, which was first announced by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard him.
4 God bearing, besides, witness with [them] to [it], both by signs and wonders, and various acts of power, and distributions of [the] Holy Spirit, according to his will?
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God also testified to it by signs, wonders and various miracles, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will.
5 For he has not subjected to angels the habitable world which is to come, of which we speak;
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It is not to angels that he has subjected the world to come, about which we are speaking.
6 but one has testified somewhere, saying, What is man, that thou rememberest him, or son of man that thou visitest him?
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But there is a place where someone has testified: “What is mankind that you are mindful of them, a son of man that you care for him?
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