²⁴ And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds,^{(A) 25} not giving up meeting together,^(B) as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another^(C)—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.^(D)

²⁶ If we deliberately keep on sinning^(E) after we have received the knowledge of the truth,^(F) no sacrifice for sins is left, ²⁷ but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire^(G) 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.^{(H) 29} How much more severely do you think someone deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God^(I) underfoot,^(J) who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant^(K) that sanctified them,^(L) and who has insulted the Spirit^(M) of grace?^{(N) 30} For we know him who said, “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,”^[a](O) and again, “The Lord will judge his people.”^[b](P)