Hebrews 12:16-29 ▼

16 lest anyone be a fornicator, or a profane person, as Esau, who in exchange for one morsel of food sold his birthright,

17 for you know that also afterward, wishing to inherit the blessing, he was disapproved of, for he did not find a place of conversion, though having sought it with tears.

18 For you did not come near to the mountain touched and scorched with fire, and to blackness, and darkness, and storm,

19 and a sound of a trumpet, and a voice of sayings, which those having heard begged that a word might not be added to them,

20 for they were not bearing that which is commanded, “And if a beast may touch the mountain, it will be stoned, or shot through with an arrow,”

21 and (so terrible was the sight), Moses said, “I am exceedingly fearful, and trembling.”

22 But you came to Mount Zion, and to [the] city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of messengers,

23 to the assembly-place and Assembly of the Firstborn registered in Heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to spirits of righteous men made perfect,

24 and to a mediator of a new covenant—Jesus, and to blood of sprinkling, speaking better things than that of Abel!

25 Watch out lest you refuse Him who is speaking, for if those did not escape who refused him who was divinely speaking on earth—much less we who turn away from Him who [speaks] from Heaven,

26 whose voice shook the earth then, and now He has promised, saying, “Yet once [more]—I shake not only the earth, but also Heaven”;

27 and this, “Yet once [more],” makes evident the removal of the things shaken, as of things having been made, that the things not shaken may remain;

28 for this reason, receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, may we have grace, through which we may serve God well-pleasingly, with reverence and fear,

29 for our God [is] also a consuming fire.