Pursue peace and holiness with all people, without which no one shall see the Lord: looking diligently lest anyone fall from the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness growing up cause trouble, and through this many be defiled; lest there be any fornicator or profane person like Esau, who in exchange for one meal gave up his birthright. For you know that indeed afterward, wishing to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, having sought it out diligently with tears.
For you have not come to the mountain that may be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness and darkness and to a whirlwind, and to a sound of a trumpet and to a voice of words, which those who heard begged that no further word be spoken to them. For they could not bear that which was commanded: “And if so much as a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned.”
And so fearful was the spectacle, that Moses said, “I am greatly afraid and trembling.”
But you have come to Zion, to the Mountain and city of the living God, to a heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn in the heavens, to God the Judge of all, and to spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus, the Mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling which speaks better things than the blood of Abel.
See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape, having refused Him who warned them, how much more shall we not escape if we turn away from Him who warns from heaven; whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I shake not only the earth, but also the heaven.” Now the phrase, “Yet once more,” signifies the removal of the things being shaken, as having been made, so that the things which cannot be shaken may remain.
Therefore, since we are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us have grace, through which we serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. For our God is a consuming fire.
(Heb 12:14-29)