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25 Let us not neglect meeting together as some do, but let us encourage one another, all the more as you can see that the great Day is coming nearer.
26 For if we choose to go on sinning after we have so fully learned the truth, there is no sacrifice left to be offered for our sins,
27 but only the dreadful prospect of judgment and that blazing indignation which is to devour God's enemies.
28 Anyone who breaks the Law of Moses is put to death without any show of pity, on the evidence of only two or three witnesses.
29 How much worse a punishment do you think will anyone deserve who tramples the Son of God underfoot, and treats as worthless the blood of the agreement by which he has been purified, and outrages God's spirit of mercy?
30 For we know who it is that has said, "Vengeance belongs to me! I will pay back!" and in another place, "The Lord will be the judge of his people!"
31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God!
32 But you must remember those early days when after you had received the light you had to go through a great struggle with persecution,
33 sometimes being actually exposed as a public spectacle to insults and violence, and sometimes showing yourselves ready to share the lot of those in that condition.
34 For you showed sympathy with those who were in prison, and you put up with it cheerfully when your property was taken from you, for you knew that you had in yourselves a greater possession that was lasting.
35 You must not lose your courage, for it will be richly rewarded,
36 but you will need endurance if you are to carry out God's will and receive the blessing he has promised.
37 For "In a very little while He who is to come will come and not delay,