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26 For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
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If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left,
27 but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries.
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but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God.
28 Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without mercy on the evidence of two or three witnesses.
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Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
29 How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has spurned the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace?
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How much more severely do you think someone deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified them, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?
30 For we know him who said, "Vengeance is mine; I will repay." And again, "The Lord will judge his people."
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For we know him who said, “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,” and again, “The Lord will judge his people.”
31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
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It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
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