24. And let us consider how we may spur one another on towards love and good deeds,
25. not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another – and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
26. If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left,
27. but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God.
28. Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
29. 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, ‘It is mine to avenge; I will repay,’ and again, ‘The Lord will judge his people.’
31. It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
32. Remember those earlier days after you had received the light, when you endured in a great conflict full of suffering.
33. Sometimes you were publicly exposed to insult and persecution; at other times you stood side by side with those who were so treated.
34. You suffered along with those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, because you knew that you yourselves had better and lasting possessions.