Hebrews 12:14-29 - Warning Against Rejecting God's Grace

¹⁴ Follow peace with all, and holiness, without which no one shall see the Lord; ¹⁵ looking diligently lest any fail of the grace of God, or lest any root of bitterness springing up disturb you, and by it many are defiled, ¹⁶ (lest there be any fornicator, or profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright. ¹⁷ For you know that afterward, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected; for he did not find any place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears).

¹⁸ For you have not come to the mountain that might be touched and that burned with fire, nor to blackness and darkness and tempest, ¹⁹ and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words (which voice they who heard begged that a word should not be spoken to them any more, ²⁰ for they could not endure the thing commanded, "And if so much as a beast should touch the mountain, it shall be stoned or thrust through with a dart," ²¹ and so fearful was the sight that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake). ²² But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, ²³ to the general assembly and church of the first-born who are written in Heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, ²⁴ and to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel.

²⁵ See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape, those who refused him that spoke on earth, much more we shall not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from Heaven, ²⁶ whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, "Yet once more I will not only shake the earth, but also the heavens." ²⁷ And this word, "Yet once more," signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, so that the things which cannot be shaken may remain. ²⁸ 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, ²⁹ for also, "Our God is a consuming fire."