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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!

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 10:27 The Gk. lacks of God
  2. Hebrews 10:28 Cf. Deut 17:6
  3. Hebrews 10:29 Or he
  4. Hebrews 10:30 Cf. Deut 32:35
  5. Hebrews 10:30 MT source citation reads Lord
  6. Hebrews 10:30 Cf. Deut 32:36; Ps 135:14