Hebrews 12:18–29

¹⁸For ye have not come to the mount that might be touched and was all on fire, and to obscurity, and darkness, and tempest, ¹⁹and trumpet’s sound, and voice of words; which they that heard, excusing themselves, declined the word being addressed to them any more: ²⁰(for they were not able to bear what was enjoined: And if a beast should touch the mountain, it shall be stoned; ²¹and, so fearful was the sight, Moses said, I am exceedingly afraid and full of trembling;) ²²but ye have come to mount Zion; and to the city of the living God, heavenly Jerusalem; and to myriads of angels, ²³the universal gathering; and to the assembly of the firstborn who are registered in heaven; and to God, judge of all; and to the spirits of just men made perfect; ²⁴and to Jesus, mediator of a new covenant; and to the blood of sprinkling, speaking better than Abel. ²⁵See that ye refuse not him that speaks. For if those did not escape who had refused him who uttered the oracles on earth, much more we who turn away from him who does so from heaven: ²⁶whose voice then shook the earth; but now he has promised, saying, Yet once will I shake not only the earth, but also the heaven. ²⁷But this Yet once, signifies the removing of what is shaken, as being made, that what is not shaken may remain. ²⁸Wherefore let us, receiving a kingdom not to be shaken, have grace, by which let us serve God acceptably with reverence and fear. ²⁹For also our God is a consuming fire.