²⁶ For if we choose to go on sinning after we have learned the full truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, ²⁷ but only a terrifying prospect of judgment and a raging fire that will consume the enemies of God.^{[a] 28} Anyone who violates the Law of Moses dies without mercy “on the testimony of two or three witnesses.”^{[b] 29} How much more severe a punishment do you think that person deserves who tramples on God’s Son, treats as common the blood of the covenant by which it^[c] was sanctified, and insults the Spirit of grace? ³⁰ For we know the one who said, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will pay them back,”^[d] and again, “The Lord^[e] will judge his people.”^{[f] 31} It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God!