Hebrews 12:12-29 - A Serious Warning Against Refusing God
12 So up with your listless hands! Strengthen your weak knees! 13 And make straight paths for your feet to walk in. You must not let the lame get dislocated, but rather make them whole.
14 Aim at peace with all ??and at that consecration without which no one will ever see the Lord; 15 see to it that no one misses the grace of God, that no root of bitterness grows up to be a trouble by contaminating all the rest of you; 16 that no one turns to sexual vice or to a profane life as Esau did ??Esau, who for a single meal parted with his birthright. 17 You know how later on, when he wanted to obtain his inheritance of blessing, he was set aside; he got no chance to repent, though he tried for it with tears.
18 You have not come to what you can touch, to flames of fire, to mist and gloom and stormy blasts, 19 to the blare of a trumpet and to a Voice whose words made those who heard it refuse to hear another syllable 20 (for they could not bear the command, If even a beast touches the mountain, it must be stoned) ??21 indeed, so awful was the sight that Moses said, I am terrified and aghast. 22 You have come to mount Sion, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to myriads of angels in festal gathering, 23 to the assembly of the first-born registered in heaven, to the God of all as judge, to the spirits of just men made perfect, 24 to Jesus who mediates the new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood whose message is nobler than Abel's.
25 See that you do not refuse to listen to His voice. For if they failed to escape, who refused to listen to their instructor upon earth, much less shall we escape, if we discard Him who speaks from heaven. 26 Then his voice shook the earth, but now the assurance is, once again I will make heaven as well as earth to quake. 27 That phrase, once again, denotes the removal of what is shaken (as no more than created), to leave only what stands unshaken. 28 Therefore let us render thanks that we get an unshaken realm; and in this way let us worship God acceptably ??29 but with godly fear and awe, for our God is indeed a consuming fire.