Punishment

Will not be commuted

• Numbers 35:31

  Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death.

In the Mosaic law the death penalty was inflicted

For murder

• Genesis 9:5

  And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.

• Genesis 9:6

  Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.

• Numbers 35:16–21

  And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. And if he smite him with throwing a stone, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. Or if he smite him with an hand weapon of wood, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. …

• Numbers 35:30–33

  Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die. Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death. And ye shall take no satisfaction for him that is fled to the city of his refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest. …

• Deuteronomy 17:6

  At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.

For adultery

• Leviticus 20:10

  And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

• Deuteronomy 22:24

  Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you.

For incest

• Leviticus 20:11

  And the man that lieth with his father's wife hath uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

• Leviticus 20:12

  And if a man lie with his daughter in law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have wrought confusion; their blood shall be upon them.

• Leviticus 20:14

  And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you.

For bestiality

• Exodus 22:19

  Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.

• Leviticus 20:15

  And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death: and ye shall slay the beast.

• Leviticus 20:16

  And if a woman approach unto any beast, and lie down thereto, thou shalt kill the woman, and the beast: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

For sodomy

• Leviticus 18:22

  Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.

• Leviticus 20:13

  If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

For sexual immorality

• Deuteronomy 22:21–24

  Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you. If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel. If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her; …

For the rape of a betrothed (engaged) virgin

• Deuteronomy 22:25

  But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her shall die:

For perjury

• Zechariah 5:4

  I will bring it forth, saith the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.

For kidnapping

• Exodus 21:16

  And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

• Deuteronomy 24:7

  If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you.

For the promiscuousness of a priest' s daughter

• Leviticus 21:9

  And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.

For witchcraft

• Exodus 22:18

  Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.

For offering human sacrifice

• Leviticus 20:2–5

  Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones. And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name. And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill him not: …

For striking or cursing one' s father or mother

• Exodus 21:15

  And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.

• Exodus 21:17

  And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

• Leviticus 20:9

  For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

For disobedience to parents

• Deuteronomy 21:18–21

  If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. …

For stealing

• Zechariah 5:3

  Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to it.

• Zechariah 5:4

  I will bring it forth, saith the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.

For blasphemy

• Leviticus 24:11–14

  And the Israelitish woman's son blasphemed the name of the LORD, and cursed. And they brought him unto Moses: (and his mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan:) And they put him in ward, that the mind of the LORD might be shewed them. And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, …

• Leviticus 24:16

  And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the LORD, shall be put to death.

• Leviticus 24:23

  And Moses spake to the children of Israel, that they should bring forth him that had cursed out of the camp, and stone him with stones. And the children of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses.

For desecrating the Sabbath day

• Exodus 35:2

  Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you an holy day, a sabbath of rest to the LORD: whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death.

• Numbers 15:32–36

  And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day. And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation. And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him. …

For prophesying falsely, or propagating false doctrines

• Deuteronomy 13:1–10

  If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them; Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. …

For sacrificing to false gods

• Exodus 22:20

  He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed.

For refusing to abide by the decision of the court

• Deuteronomy 17:12

  And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest that standeth to minister there before the LORD thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel.

For treason

• 1 Kings 2:25

  And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell upon him that he died.

• Esther 2:23

  And when inquisition was made of the matter, it was found out; therefore they were both hanged on a tree: and it was written in the book of the chronicles before the king.

For sedition

• Acts 5:36

  For before these days rose up Theudas, boasting himself to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves: who was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered, and brought to nought.

• Acts 5:37

  After this man rose up Judas of Galilee in the days of the taxing, and drew away much people after him: he also perished; and all, even as many as obeyed him, were dispersed.

Modes of execution of death penalty

Burning

• Genesis 38:24

  And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the harlot; and also, behold, she is with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt.

• Leviticus 20:14

  And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you.

• Leviticus 21:9

  And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.

• Jeremiah 29:22

  And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of Judah which are in Babylon, saying, The LORD make thee like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;

• Ezekiel 23:25

  And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal furiously with thee: they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire.

• Daniel 3:19–23

  Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego: therefore he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated. And he commanded the most mighty men that were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace. Then these men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace. …

Stoning

• Leviticus 20:2

  Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.

• Leviticus 20:27

  A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood shall be upon them.

• Leviticus 24:14

  Bring forth him that hath cursed without the camp; and let all that heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him.

• Numbers 14:10

  But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel.

• Numbers 15:33–36

  And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation. And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him. And the LORD said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp. …

• Deuteronomy 13:10

  And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

• Deuteronomy 17:5

  Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.

• Deuteronomy 22:21

  Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.

• Deuteronomy 22:24

  Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you.

• Joshua 7:25

  And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? the LORD shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones.

• 1 Kings 21:10

  And set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against him, saying, Thou didst blaspheme God and the king. And then carry him out, and stone him, that he may die.

• Ezekiel 16:40

  They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.

Hanging

• Genesis 40:22

  But he hanged the chief baker: as Joseph had interpreted to them.

• Deuteronomy 21:22

  And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree:

• Deuteronomy 21:23

  His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.

• Joshua 8:29

  And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcase down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise thereon a great heap of stones, that remaineth unto this day.

Beheading

• Matthew 14:10

  And he sent, and beheaded John in the prison.

• Mark 6:16

  But when Herod heard thereof, he said, It is John, whom I beheaded: he is risen from the dead.

• Mark 6:27

  And immediately the king sent an executioner, and commanded his head to be brought: and he went and beheaded him in the prison,

• Mark 6:28

  And brought his head in a charger, and gave it to the damsel: and the damsel gave it to her mother.

Crucifixion

• Matthew 27:35

  And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots.

• Matthew 27:38

  Then were there two thieves crucified with him, one on the right hand, and another on the left.

• Mark 15:24

  And when they had crucified him, they parted his garments, casting lots upon them, what every man should take.

• Mark 15:27

  And with him they crucify two thieves; the one on his right hand, and the other on his left.

• Luke 23:33

  And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left.

The sword

• Exodus 32:27

  And he said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour.

• Exodus 32:28

  And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.

• 1 Kings 2:25

  And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell upon him that he died.

• 1 Kings 2:34

  So Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up, and fell upon him, and slew him: and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.

• 1 Kings 2:46

  So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; which went out, and fell upon him, that he died. And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.

• Acts 12:2

  And he killed James the brother of John with the sword.

Executed by the accusing witnesses

• Deuteronomy 13:9

  But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.

• Deuteronomy 17:7

  The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So thou shalt put the evil away from among you.

• Acts 7:58

  And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul.

Executed by the entire congregation

• Numbers 15:35

  And the LORD said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.

• Numbers 15:36

  And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the LORD commanded Moses.

• Deuteronomy 13:9

  But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.

Not inflicted by the testimony of less than two witnesses

• Numbers 35:30

  Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die.

• Deuteronomy 17:6

  At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.

• Deuteronomy 19:15

  One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.

Punishable by

Scourging

• Leviticus 19:20

  And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, betrothed to an husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; she shall be scourged; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free.

• Deuteronomy 22:18

  And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him;

• Deuteronomy 25:2

  And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number.

• Deuteronomy 25:3

  Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.

• Proverbs 17:10

  A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.

• Proverbs 19:29

  Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.

• Proverbs 20:30

  The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly.

• Matthew 27:26

  Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.

• Mark 15:15

  And so Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified.

• Luke 23:16

  I will therefore chastise him, and release him.

• John 19:1

  Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him.

• Acts 22:24

  The chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle, and bade that he should be examined by scourging; that he might know wherefore they cried so against him.

• Acts 22:29

  Then straightway they departed from him which should have examined him: and the chief captain also was afraid, after he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.

Imprisonment

• Genesis 39:20

  And Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king's prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison.

Genesis 40

Confinement within limits

• 1 Kings 2:26

  And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou barest the ark of the Lord GOD before David my father, and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.

• 1 Kings 2:36–38

  And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him, Build thee an house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, and go not forth thence any whither. For it shall be, that on the day thou goest out, and passest over the brook Kidron, thou shalt know for certain that thou shalt surely die: thy blood shall be upon thine own head. And Shimei said unto the king, The saying is good: as my lord the king hath said, so will thy servant do. And Shimei dwelt in Jerusalem many days.

Upon children

• Exodus 34:7

  Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.

• Jeremiah 31:29

  In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge.

• Lamentations 5:7

  Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.

• Ezekiel 18:2

  What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge?

• Ezekiel 18:3

  As I live, saith the Lord GOD, ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel.

To secure obedience

• Genesis 2:17

  But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

• Exodus 20:3–5

  Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

• Leviticus 26:14–39

  But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments; And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant: I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. …

• Deuteronomy 13:10

  And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

• Deuteronomy 13:11

  And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you.

• Deuteronomy 17:13

  And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.

• Deuteronomy 19:20

  And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among you.

• Deuteronomy 21:21

  And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

• Proverbs 19:25

  Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge.

• Proverbs 21:11

  When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge.

• Proverbs 26:3

  A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back.

No Escape from

• Job 11:20

  But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.

• Proverbs 1:24–31

  Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; …

• Proverbs 11:21

  Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.

• Proverbs 16:5

  Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.

• Proverbs 29:1

  He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.

• Jeremiah 11:11

  Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them.

• Jeremiah 15:1

  Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.

• Jeremiah 25:28

  And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at thine hand to drink, then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ye shall certainly drink.

• Jeremiah 25:29

  For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name, and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the LORD of hosts.

• Ezekiel 7:19

  They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

• Amos 2:14–16

  Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself: Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver himself: neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver himself. And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the LORD.

• Zephaniah 1:18

  Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.

• Matthew 10:28

  And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

• Matthew 23:33

  Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?

• Romans 2:3

  And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?

• Colossians 3:25

  But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons.

• Hebrews 2:3

  How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;

• Hebrews 12:25

  See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven: