WPNT(i)
18 Now you have not come to a touchable mountain burning with fire, to blackness and darkness, to tempest;
19 to a trumpet blast and spoken words such that those who heard begged that no further word be spoken to them
20 (because they could not bear what was commanded: “If even an animal touches the mountain it must be stoned!”
21 and the sight was so terrifying that Moses said, “I am terrified and trembling!”);
22 but you have come to Mount Zion, even to the City of the Living God, Heavenly Jerusalem; to myriads of angels in festal gathering,
23 to an assembly of firstborn ones who have been enrolled in heaven; to God, Judge of all; to the spirits of the perfected righteous;
24 to Jesus, Mediator of a new covenant, and to a blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel.
25 See to it that you not refuse Him who speaks. Because if they did not escape who refused Him who gave divine warning on earth, how much less will we, if we turn away from Him who warns from Heaven!
26 Then His voice shook the earth, but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I shake not only the earth but also the heaven.”
27 Now the ‘yet once more’ clearly indicates the removal of the things being shaken (created things), so that the unshakables may remain.
28 Therefore, since we are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us hold on to the grace by which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and godly fear;
29 because our God is indeed a consuming fire.