# How much worse punishment do you think one deserves ... grace? "This was severe punishment. But the punishment will be even greater for anyone ... grace!" # who has trampled underfoot the Son of God "who has rejected the Son of God" # who regarded the blood of the covenant as unholy "by treating the blood of the covenant as unholy" # the blood of the covenant Here "blood" stands for Christ's death, by which God established the new covenant. # the blood by which he was sanctified "the blood by which God sanctified him" # the Spirit of grace "the Spirit of God, who provides grace"