Contrast of Sinai and Zion

18 aFor you have not come to ba mountain that can be touched and to a blazing fire, and to darkness and gloom and whirlwind,

19 and to the ablast of a trumpet and the bsound of words which sound was such that those who heard cbegged that no further word be spoken to them.

20 For they could not bear the command, “aIf even a beast touches the mountain, it will be stoned.”

21 And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, “aI am full of fear and trembling.”

22 But ayou have come to Mount Zion and to bthe city of cthe living God, dthe heavenly Jerusalem, and to emyriads of 1angels,

23 to the general assembly and achurch of the firstborn who bare enrolled in heaven, and to God, cthe Judge of all, and to the dspirits of the righteous made perfect,

24 and to Jesus, the amediator of a new covenant, and to the bsprinkled blood, which speaks better than cthe blood of Abel.

The Unshaken Kingdom

25 aSee 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 ewarns from heaven.