18 For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched and that burned with fire nor unto blackness and darkness and tempest 19 and the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words, which voice those that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more; 20 (for they could not endure that which was 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 terrible was the sight that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake); 22 but ye are come unto Mount Sion and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, 23 to the congregation of the called out ones of the firstborn, who are registered in the heavens 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 testament and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaks better than that of Abel.
25 See that you do not refuse him that speaks. For if those who refused him that spoke on earth did not escape, much less shall we escape, if we turn away from him that speaks from the heavens, 26 whose voice then shook the earth; but now he has promised, saying, Yet even once, I shall shake not the earth only, but also the heaven. 27 And this word, Yet even once, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. 28 Therefore, receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us hold fast to the grace, by which we serve God, pleasing him with reverence and godly fear: 29 for our God is a consuming fire.