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For ye are not come unto [a mount] that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,

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and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words which [voice] they that heard entreated that no word more should be spoken unto them

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for they could not endure that which was enjoined, If even a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned

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and so fearful was the appearance, [that] Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:

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but ye are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable hosts of angels,

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to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,

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and to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better than [that of] Abel.

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See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not when they refused him that warned [them] on earth, much more [shall not] we [escape] who turn away from him that [warneth] from heaven:

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whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more will I make to tremble not the earth only, but also the heaven.

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And this [word], Yet once more, signifieth 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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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:

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for our God is a consuming fire.