Hebrews:12:14-29
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Follow after peace with all men and holiness ,
without which no one will see the Lord .
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Be on your guard that no one shall fail of the grace of God ,
that no bitter root shall sprout up and trouble you and through it many be stained ,
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that there shall be none unchaste ,
or profane like Esau ,
who for one meal sold his birthright .
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For you know that afterward when he wished to inherit the blessing he was rejected ,
for he found no place for a change in his father '
s mind though he sought it earnestly with tears .
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For you have not come to something that may be touched ,
ablaze with fire ,
and to blackness and darkness and tempest
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and the blast of a trumpet and the sound of words which those who heard begged not to have spoken of them .
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For they could not bear the command , "
If even an animal touches the mountain it must be stoned ."
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And so dreadful was the sight that Moses said , "
I am terrified and trembling ."
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But you have come to Mount Zion and the city of the living God ,
heavenly Jerusalem ,
to tens of thousands of angels ,
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to the festal assembly and congregation of first-born who are enrolled in heaven ,
and to God the Judge of all ,
and to the spirits of righteous men made perfect ,
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and to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant and to the sprinkled blood which tells something better than the blood of Abel .
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Beware of rejecting him who is speaking .
For if those did not escape who rejected him who taught the divine will on earth ,
much less shall we if we reject him who speaks from heaven .
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His voice then shook the earth ,
but now he has announced , "
Yet once for all I shall shake not only the earth but also heaven ."
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And this expression "
yet once for all "
shows the removal of the things shaken ,
as of things that have been made ,
that the unshaken things may remain .
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So then ,
since we are receiving an unshaken kingdom ,
let us have grace by which we may worship God acceptably with reverence and awe .
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For our God is a consuming fire .
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