Numbers 35:28 Cross References - Thomson

²⁸ For he should have remained in the city of refuge till the death of the high priest. After the death of the high priest the slayer may return to the land of his possession.

⁴ Abide in me, and I [will abide] in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abide in the vine; so neither can you unless you continue in me. ⁵ I am the vine; you are the branches. He who continueth in me and I in him he it is who beareth much fruit. Because, separated from me, you can bear nothing: ⁶ if any one continueth not in me he is thrown away as the branch is when it is withered. Such indeed are gathered and thrown into the fire and burned.

²³ And when he came and saw the grace of God, he was filled with joy and exhorted them all to adhere to the Lord with a firm determination of heart.

³¹ Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, Unless those continue in the ship, you cannot be saved.

¹⁴ [for we are made associates of the Christ if we retain the beginning of this confidence firm to the end]

⁴ for with regard to them who have been once enlightened, and have tasted this free, this heavenly gift, and have been made partakers of a holy spirit, ⁵ and tasted the good word of God, and the miraculous powers of the age about to come, ⁶ and have fallen off; it is impossible to renew them again for a reformation, since they are crucifying for themselves afresh the son of God and exposing him to open shame. ⁷ For ground which drinketh up the rain that frequently falleth on it, and produceth plants fit for the use of them for whom it is cultivated, receiveth a blessing from God; ⁸ but that which produceth briars and thorns is rejected, and near a curse, the end of which is for burning.

¹¹ But Christ being come, a chief priest of the future good things, hath entered into the holies by the greater and more perfect tabernacle; not by one made with hands, that is, not of this creation; ¹² nor with the blood of goats and young bulls, but with his own blood, once for all, having procured everlasting redemption.

¹⁵ Indeed on the account of this he is the mediator of a New Covenant, that [there having been death for a pardon of the transgressions under the first covenant they who have been called may receive the promise of the everlasting inheritance. ¹⁶ For where there is a covenant it necessarily infers the death of that by which it is established. ¹⁷ For a covenant is ratified over the dead, and it hath no validity at all while that by which it is established liveth.

²⁶ For if we sin wilfully, after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more any sacrifice for sins, ²⁷ but a certain dreadful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries. ²⁸ Whoever hath set at naught the law of Moses dieth without mercy, on the evidence of two or three witnesses. ²⁹ Of how much greater punishment, think ye, will he be thought worthy, who hath trampled upon the Son of God, and accounted the blood of the covenant, by which he was sanctified, a common thing, and treated contemptuously the spirit of grace? ³⁰ For we know him who said, "Vengeance is mine, I will requite, saith the Lord;" and, again, "The Lord will judge his people."

³⁹ But we are not of them who draw back for perdition; but of them who believe for the attainment of life.