Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

Wherefore we receiving a kingdom unmoved; we should have grace by which we might serve God acceptably, with reverence and circumspection:

New American Standard Bible

Therefore, since we receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, by which we may offer to God an acceptable service with reverence and awe;

King James Version

Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:

Holman Bible

Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us hold on to grace. By it, we may serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,

International Standard Version

Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful and worship God in reverence and fear in a way that pleases him.

A Conservative Version

Therefore, receiving an immovable kingdom, we may have grace, through which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and awe.

American Standard Version

Wherefore, receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us have grace, whereby we may offer service well-pleasing to God with reverence and awe:

Amplified

Therefore, since we receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, and offer to God pleasing service and acceptable worship with reverence and awe;

An Understandable Version

Therefore, we should be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken [i.e., the church. See Col. 1:13; Rev. 1:6, 9]. So, with reverence and awe, we should serve God in a way that pleases Him,

Anderson New Testament

Wherefore, as we receive a kingdom that can not be shaken, let us have gratitude, by which we may serve God acceptably, with reverence and godly fear:

Bible in Basic English

If then, we have a kingdom which will never be moved, let us have grace, so that we may give God such worship as is pleasing to him with fear and respect:

Common New Testament

Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and offer to God acceptable worship with reverence and awe,

Daniel Mace New Testament

since then we are entring into a kingdom which cannot be changed, let us maintain the divine favour, whereby we may serve God acceptably, with reverence and fear.

Darby Translation

Wherefore let us, receiving a kingdom not to be shaken, have grace, by which let us serve God acceptably with reverence and fear.

Godbey New Testament

Therefore receiving an unshaken kingdom, let us have grace, through which we may worship God acceptably with reverence and fear:

Goodspeed New Testament

Let us, therefore, be thankful that the kingdom given to us cannot be shaken, and so please God by worshiping him with reverence and awe;

John Wesley New Testament

Therefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us hold fast the grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably, with reverence and godly fear.

King James 2000

Therefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:

Lexham Expanded Bible

Therefore, [since we] are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us be thankful, through which let us serve God acceptably, with awe and reverence.

Modern King James verseion

Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear,

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Wherefore if we receive a kingdom which is not moved, we have grace, whereby we may serve God and please him with reverence and godly fear.

Moffatt New Testament

Therefore let us render thanks that we get an unshaken realm; and in this way let us worship God acceptably ??29 but with godly fear and awe, for our God is indeed a consuming fire.

Montgomery New Testament

Wherefore since we are receiving a kingdom which is unshakable, let us give thanks, and so offer acceptable worship to God, with holy awe and fear,

NET Bible

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.

New Heart English Bible

So since we are receiving a Kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us give thanks, through which we may offer service pleasing to God, with reverence and awe,

Noyes New Testament

Wherefore receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably, with reverence and godly fear.

Sawyer New Testament

Wherefore, receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us have grace through which we may serve God acceptably, with piety and fear;

The Emphasized Bible

Wherefore, seeing that, of a kingdom not to be shaken, we are receiving possession, let us have gratitude - whereby we may be rendering divine service well-pleasingly unto God, with reverence and awe;

Thomas Haweis New Testament

Wherefore receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, may we hold fast the grace, by which we can offer to God acceptably divine service, with reverence and pious awe:

Twentieth Century New Testament

Therefore, let us, who have received a kingdom that cannot be shaken, be thankful, and so offer acceptable worship to God, with awe and reverence.

Webster

Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably, with reverence and godly fear.

Weymouth New Testament

Therefore, receiving, as we now do, a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us cherish thankfulness so that we may ever offer to God an acceptable service, with godly reverence and awe.

Williams New Testament

Let us, therefore, be thankful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and in this way continue to serve God acceptably in reverence and fear;

World English Bible

Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can't be shaken, let us have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,

Worrell New Testament

Wherefore, receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably, with reverence and godly fear;

Worsley New Testament

Wherefore since we receive a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us have grace whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and holy fear:

Youngs Literal Translation

wherefore, a kingdom that cannot be shaken receiving, may we have grace, through which we may serve God well-pleasingly, with reverence and religious fear;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
διό 
Dio 
Usage: 52

παραλαμβάνω 
Paralambano 
Usage: 41

βασιλεία 
Basileia 
Usage: 54

ἀσάλευτος 
Asaleutos 
Usage: 2

let us have
ἔχω 
Echo 
have, be, need , , vr have
Usage: 479

χάρις 
Charis 
Usage: 151

διά 
Dia 
by, through, with, for, for ... sake, therefore , for this cause , because,
Usage: 527

we may serve
λατρεύω 
Latreuo 
Usage: 19

God
θεός 
theos 
Usage: 1151

εὐαρέστως 
Euarestos 
Usage: 1

with
μετά 
meta 
with, after, among, hereafter , afterward , against, not tr,
Usage: 346

αἰδώς 
Aidos 
Usage: 2

and

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

Devotionals

Devotionals containing Hebrews 12:28

Images Hebrews 12:28

Context Readings

A Kingdom That Cannot Be Shaken

27 And the Yet once more, makes manifest the transferring the things shaken, as of things made, that the things not being shaken might remain. 28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom unmoved; we should have grace by which we might serve God acceptably, with reverence and circumspection: 29 For also our God is a consuming fire.

Cross References

Daniel 2:44

And in their days that they are kings, the God of the heavens shall set up a kingdom that shall not be destroyed forever: and its kingdom shall be left to another people; it shall beat small and destroy all these kingdoms, and this shall stand forever.

Hebrews 13:15

By him therefore we should always bring up the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of the lips assenting to his name.

Psalm 2:11

Serve Jehovah with fear, and rejoice with trembling.

Psalm 19:14

The saying of my mouth and the meditation of my heart shall be for acceptance before thee, O Jehovah, my rock and my redeemer.

Psalm 89:7

God being greatly terrible in the council of the holy ones and to be feared by all round about him.

Proverbs 28:24

He stripping his father and his mother, and saying, No transgression; is companion to a man destroying.

Isaiah 9:7

To the increase of his dominion and to peace no end, upon the throne of David and upon his kingdom to prepare it and to support it in judgment and in justice from now and even to forever: the zeal of Jehovah of armies will do this.

Isaiah 56:7

And I brought them to my holy mountain, and I made them rejoice in the house of my prayer: their burnt-offerings and their sacrifices for acceptance upon mine altar; for my house shall be called the house of prayer for all the peoples.

Daniel 7:14

And to him was given dominion, power and honor, and a kingdom; and all peoples and nations and tongues shall serve to him: his power an eternal power that shall not pass away, and his kingdom which shall not be destroyed.

Daniel 7:27

And the kingdom and the power, and the greatness of the kingdom under All the heavens was given to the people of the holy ones of the Most High his kingdom an eternal kingdom, and all powers shall serve to him, and shall hear.

Matthew 25:34

Then shall the king say to them from his right, Come, the praised of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

Luke 1:33

And he shall reign over the house of Jacob forever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.

Luke 17:20-21

And having been asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God comes, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God comes not with observation:

Romans 11:20

Well; for unbelief were they broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but do thou fear:

Romans 12:1-2

I Beseech you therefore, brethren, by the compassions of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing to God, your reasonable service.

Ephesians 1:6

To the praise of the glory of his grace, in which he rendered us acceptable in the beloved.

Ephesians 5:10

Trying what is pleasing to the Lord.

Philippians 4:18

And I have all, and abound: I have been filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things from you, a smell of sweet odor, a sacrifice acceptable, pleasing to God.

Hebrews 3:6

And Christ as a son over his house: whose house are we, if we should hold freedom of speech and the boast of hope firm to the end.

Hebrews 4:16

We should therefore go with freedom of speech to the throne of grace, that we receive mercy, and find grace for timely assistance.

Hebrews 5:7

Who in the days of his flesh, both prayers and supplications to him able to save him from death, with strong crying and tears, having offered, and listened to by means of circumspection;

Hebrews 10:19

Having therefore, brethren, freedom of speech for the entering in of the holies by the blood of Jesus,

Hebrews 10:22-23

Let us approach with a true heart in complete certainty of faith, having our hearts besprinkled from an evil consciousness, and having our bodies washed with pure water.

1 Peter 1:4-5

To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and unfading, kept in the heavens for us,

1 Peter 1:17

And if ye call upon the Father, judging without distinction of persons according to the work of each, in fear be occupied in the time of your sojourning:

1 Peter 2:5

And ye yourselves are built, as living stones, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to bring up spiritual sacrifice; acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 2:20

For what glory, if, sinning and being cuffed, ye endure? but if, doing good, and suffering, ye endure, this is grace with God.

Revelation 1:6

And he made us kings and priests to God and his Father; to him the glory and strength for the times of times.

Revelation 5:10

And madest us kings and priests to our God: and we shall reign upon the earth.

Revelation 15:4

Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou alone holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy justices were made manifest.

Leviticus 10:3

And Moses will say to Aaron, This which Jehovah spake, saying, In drawing near me I will be consecrated, and before all the people I will be honored. And Aaron will be silent

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