Warning against Deliberate Sin
26 For if we deliberately go on sinning after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 10:26 Nm 15:30; Dt 17:12; Heb 6:4; 2Pt 2:20–21; 1Jn 5:1627 but a terrifying expectation of judgment and the fury of a fire about to consume the adversaries. 10:27 Is 26:11; Zph 1:18; 2Th 1:828 Anyone who disregarded the law of Moses died without mercy, based on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 10:28 Dt 17:6; Heb 2:229 How much worse punishment do you think one will deserve who has trampled on the Son of God, who has regarded as profane 10:29 Or ordinary the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace? 10:29 Mt 12:31–32; Eph 4:30; Heb 6:630 For we know the one who has said,
Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, 10:30 Other mss add says the Lord, 10:30 Dt 32:35
and again,
The Lord will judge his people. 10:30 Dt 32:36, 10:30 Dt 32:35–36; Ps 135:14; Rm 12:19
31 It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God. 10:31 Mt 16:16; Lk 12:5