Neglect of Duty: Communion
Hebrews 10:19-29
Communion noun
a closerelationship with someone in which feelings and thoughts are exchanged:
He foundspiritual communion with her.
in communion with He lived in close communion with nature/God.
[verb ]literary
a group of people who are united by the same, especiallyreligious, beliefs:
The author has a vision of an emergingworldwideChristian communion.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
- attuned
- commune
- commune with something
- communicate
- communicate with someone/something
- compathy
- empathize
- empathy
- identify
- identify with someone
- in communion with someone/something
- relate
- self-communing
- self-communion
- sensitive
- sensitively
- sensitiveness
- speak
- speak someone’s language idiom
- understanding
*https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/communion
Hebrews 10:19–29 (NIV): 19 Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, 20 by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body, 21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God, 22 let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water. 23 Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. 24 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, 25 not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
26 If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, 27 but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God. 28 Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29 How much more severely do you think someone deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified them, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?
Nehemiah 9:35 (NRSV): 35 Even in their own kingdom, and in the great goodness you bestowed on them, and in the large and rich land that you set before them, they did not serve you and did not turn from their wicked works.
Matthew 7:26 (NLT): 26 But anyone who hears my teaching and doesn’t obey it is foolish, like a person who builds a house on sand.
Luke 12:47–48 (NIV): 47 “The servant who knows the master’s will and does not get ready or does not do what the master wants will be beaten with many blows. 48 But the one who does not know and does things deserving punishment will be beaten with few blows. From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.