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The three reference listeners in a modest courtyard gathering, the older listener carefully unrolling a parchment with its blank reverse toward the viewer while the younger man stops at the doorway and turns back to listen; woman seated alertly.
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Hebrews 2:1-4

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A salvation not to neglect · Hebrews 2

Story guide: The first warning makes the argument urgent: salvation must not be neglected. The listening community is an artistic frame, not a named group identified by the letter.

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1For this reason, we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away.

2For if the message spoken through angels proved firm, and every transgression and disobedience received a just penalty,

3How will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation? This salvation, having at first been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard him,

4while God also bore witness with signs and wonders and various miracles and distributions of the Holy Spirit according to his will.

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