Hebrews 12:12-29 - A Serious Warning Against Refusing God
12 Wherefore hold up the hands that hang down, and the feeble knees, 13 and make straight courses for your feet, that the lame may not be turned out of the way, but may rather be healed.
14 Follow peace with all men and holiness, without which no one shall see the Lord, 15 taking care that no one may come short of the grace of God, that no root of bitterness springing up may make trouble and by it many be defiled, 16 that no one may be a fornicator or unholy person like Esau, who for one meal sold his birthright. 17 For you know that afterwards, wishing also to inherit the blessing, he was rejected; for he found no place for a change of mind, though he sought it with tears.
18 For you have not come to a mountain that may be touched, and to a burning fire, and blackness and darkness and a tempest 19 and the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words, which those who heard desired that the word might not be spoken to them any more,??20 for they could not bear what was commanded, And if a beast touches the mountain it shall be stoned; 21 and so fearful was the sight, that Moses said, I fear and tremble,??22 but you have come to Zion, the mountain and city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels in general assembly, 23 and to the church of the first-born who are enrolled in heaven, and to a judge the God of all, and to spirits of the righteous made perfect, 24 and to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to a sprinkled blood which speaks better than Abel.
25 See that you refuse not him that speaks; for if they did not escape who refused him that gave answers on earth, much more shall we [not escape] who turn ourselves away from him in heaven; 26 whose voice then shook the earth, but now it has been promised, saying, Hereafter once for all I will shake not only the earth, but also heaven. 27 And this, Hereafter once for all, signifies the removal of the things shaken as of things made, that those not shaken may continue. 28 Wherefore, receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us have grace through which we may serve God acceptably, with piety and fear; 29 for our God is also a consuming fire.