Hebrews 12:18-29
Read Hebrews 12 in full →Contrast of Sinai and Zion
18aFor you have not come to ba mountain that can be touched and to a blazing fire, and to darkness and gloom and whirlwind, 19and to the ablast of a trumpet and the bsound of words which was such that those who heard cbegged that no further word be spoken to them. 20For they could not bear what was being commanded, “aIf even a beast touches the mountain, it will be stoned.” 21And so terrible was what appeared, that Moses said, “aI am full of fear and trembling.” 22But ayou have come to Mount Zion and to bthe city of cthe living God, dthe heavenly Jerusalem, and to emyriads of 1angels, 23to the festal gathering and aassembly of the firstborn who bare enrolled in heaven, and to God, cthe Judge of all, and to the dspirits of the righteous made perfect, 24and to Jesus, the amediator of a new covenant, and to the bsprinkled blood, which speaks better than cthe blood of Abel.
An Unshakable Kingdom
25aSee to it that you do not refuse Him who is bspeaking. For cif those did not escape when they drefused him who ewarned them on earth, 1much less will we escape who turn away from Him who fwarns from heaven. 26And aHis voice shook the earth then, but now He has promised, saying, “bYet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heaven.” 27Now this expression, “Yet once more,” indicates athe removing of those things which can be shaken, as of created things, so that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. 28Therefore, since we are receiving a akingdom which cannot be shaken, let us 1show gratitude, by which we may boffer to God an acceptable service with reverence and awe; 29for aour God is a consuming fire.