NEW TESTAMENT

Hebrews 2:1

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Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.

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Verse 1. Lest perhaps we should let them slip away, [1] or run out, like water out of leaking vessels, which is lost, and cannot be take up again. According to the letter it is, lest we run out; the sense must be, lest we do not sufficiently attend to these truths. Witham.

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