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- For you have not come
- to something that can be touched,
- and to a burning fire
- and to darkness
- and to gloom
- and to a whirlwind
- 19and to the blast of a trumpet
- and to a voice uttering words such that those who heard begged to hear no more.
- (20For they could not bear what was commanded: “If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned.”)
- (21In fact, the scene was so terrifying that Moses said, “I shudder with fear.”)
- But you have come
- to Mount Zion
- and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem
- and to myriads of angels
- and to the feast-gathered assembly of the firstborn sons, who are enrolled in heaven
- and to God, the judge of all
- and to the spirits of the righteous, who have been made fully perfect,
- 24and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant
- and to the sprinkled blood that speaks of something better than Abel’s did.
- Take care not to refuse the one who is speaking!
- For if they did not escape when they refused the one who warned them on earth,
- how much less shall we, if we reject the one who warns from heaven?
- 26Then his voice shook the earth,
- but now he has promised, “I will once more shake not only the earth but heaven too.”
- Now this phrase “once more” indicates the removal of what is shaken, that is, of created things, so that what is unshaken may remain.
- So since we are receiving an unshakable kingdom,
let us give thanks,
and through this let us offer worship pleasing to God in devotion and awe.
- For our God is indeed a consuming fire.
adapted from NET Bible