Hebrews:12:14-29

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* Follow after peace with all men , and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord , * looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God ; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you , and many be defiled by it ; * lest there be any sexually immoral person , or profane person , like Esau , who sold his birthright for one meal . * For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing , he was rejected , for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears . * For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched , and that burned with fire , and to blackness , darkness , storm , * the sound of a trumpet , and the voice of words ; which those who heard it begged that not one more word should be spoken to them , * for they could not stand that which was commanded , "If even an animal touches the mountain , it shall be stoned {TR adds "or shot with an arrow " [see Exodus strkjv @19:12-13 ]}"; {Exodus strkjv @19:12-13 } * and so fearful was the appearance , that Moses said , "I am terrified and trembling ." {Deuteronomy strkjv @9:19 } * But you have come to Mount Zion , and to the city of the living God , the heavenly Jerusalem , and to innumerable multitudes of angels , * to the general assembly and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven , to God the Judge of all , to the spirits of just men made perfect , * to Jesus , the mediator of a new covenant , {Jeremiah strkjv @31:31 } and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel . * See that you don 't refuse him who speaks . For if they didn 't escape when they refused him who warned on the earth , how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven , * whose voice shook the earth then , but now he has promised , saying , "Yet once more I will shake not only the earth , but also the heavens ." {Haggai strkjv @2:6 } * This phrase , "Yet once more ," signifies the removing of those things that are shaken , as of things that have been made , that those things which are not shaken may remain . * Therefore , receiving a Kingdom that can 't be shaken , let us have grace , through which we serve God acceptably , with reverence and awe , * for our God is a consuming fire . {Deuteronomy strkjv @4:24 }

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