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For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, tempest,
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the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which those who heard it begged that not one more word should be spoken to them,
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for they could not stand that which was enjoined, "If even a animal touch the mountain, it will be stoned;"
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and so fearful was the appearance, that Moses said, "I am terrified and trembling."
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But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable hosts of angels,
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to the general assembly and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God, the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,
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to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.
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See that you don`t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn`t escape when they refused him who warned on the Earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,
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whose voice shook the earth, then, but now he has promised, saying, "Yet once more will I shake not only the earth, but also the heavens."
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This phrase, "Yet once more," signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain.
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Therefore, receiving a kingdom that can`t be shaken, let us have grace, whereby we may offer service well pleasing to God, with reverence and awe,
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for our God is a consuming fire.