Hebrews:12:14-29

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* Pursue peace with all men , and holiness , without which , no one shall see the Lord : * carefully observing , lest any one come short of the favor of God ; lest some bitter root springing up , trouble you , and by it many be polluted ; * lest there be any fornicator , or profane person , as Esau ; who , for one meal , gave away his birthrights . * And you know , that although afterward he wished to inherit the blessing , he was reprobated : for he found no scope for effecting a change , though he earnestly sought it with tears . * Now you are not come to a tangible mountain , which burned with fire ; and to blackness , and to darkness , and to tempest , * and to the sound of a trumpet , and to the voice of words , the hearers of which earnestly entreated that a word more might not be addressed to them : * «for they could not bear this threat ,» 'Even if a beast touch the mountain , it shall be stoned .' * «And so terrible was the appearance , that Moses said ,» 'I exceedingly fear and tremble .' * But you are come to Mount Zion , and to the city of the living God , the heavenly Jerusalem , and to myriads of messengers , * to the general assembly and congregation of the first-born , who are enrolled in heaven , and to God the Judge of all , and to the spirits of just men made perfect , * and to Jesus the mediator of the new institution , and to the blood of sprinkling , which speaks better things than that of Abel . * Take care that you refuse not him who speaks : for if they did not escape , who refused him who spoke on earth , much more we shall not escape , who turn away from him that speaks from heaven : * «whose voice then shook the earth ; but now he has promised , saying ,» 'Yet once I shake not the earth only , but also the heavens .' * «Now this speech ,» 'YET ONCE ,' 'signifies the removing of the things shaken , as of things which were constituted , that the things not shaken may remain .' * Wherefore , we having received a kingdom not shaken , let us have gratitude , by which we may serve God acceptably , with reverence and religious fear . * For truly our God is a consuming fire .

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