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Hebrews 12:21

Verse 21 of 29. The 12th of 13 chapters in Hebrews, in The General Letters.

17For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears.

18For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm,

19the 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,

20for they could not stand that which was commanded, “If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned”.

21So fearful was the appearance that Moses said, “I am terrified and trembling.”

22But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,

23to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,

24to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.

25See 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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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.