the Son results in divine punishment.7 If believers fail to heed the author’s emotive warnings, the impending and undesirable consequence that faces them always appears to be some sort of divine punishment. Of these five warning passages, two invoke the need to hear or listen to God’s message (2:1–4; 12:14–29), while two others generate an emotive need and explicit expectation to trust and obey God (3:7–4:13; 10:19–39). At the heart of these warning passages is Hebrews 5:11–6:12. The following exposition