Hebrews 12:12-29 - A Serious Warning Against Refusing God
12 Wherefore "strengthen your weak hands and your feeble knees. 13 clear the way for your feet, lest that which is lame should be quite out of joint, instead of being redress'd."
14 seek peace with all men, and sanctity of life, without which no man shall see the Lord: 15 take care not to deprive yourselves of the divine favour: and that no poisonous root spring up, and spread a general infection among you. 16 let there be no licentious or profane person, such as Esau, "who sold his birth-right, for a single mess." 17 for you know that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: not being able to make Isaac to retract, though he importun'd him with tears.
18 You do not approach to any thing corporeal, to scorching fire, to smoak, darkness, and tempest, 19 nor to the sound of trumpets, and the voice which pronounc'd such words, that they who heard, intreated they might hear it no more. 20 nor could they endure that threat, "if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned." 21 and so terrible was the appearance, that Moses cry'd out, "I tremble with the fright." 22 but you are come to mount Sion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable congress of angels, to the general assembly, 23 the church of the first-born who are enroll'd in heaven, to God the judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, 24 to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the aspersion of that blood which cries for pardon, and not for vengeance as that of Abel.
25 Take care that you be not deaf to him that speaketh: for if they did not escape, who disregarded the oracles pronounc'd on earth, much less shall we escape, if we turn away from him that delivered the oracles from heaven: 26 whose voice then shook the earth: but he has promised to do it now, saying, " yet once more I will shake, not the earth only, but heaven too." 27 and this expression, yet once more" signifies the abolition of those changeable things which were only contriv'd, that what is unalterable might lastingly succeed. 28 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. 29 for "our God is a consuming fire."