Hebrews 12:29
For our God is also a consuming fire.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
For our God is a consuming fire.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 24:17And the appearance of the glory of LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the sons of Israel.
Numbers 16:35And fire came forth from LORD, and devoured the two hundred and fifty men who offered the incense.
Deuteronomy 9:3Know therefore this day, that LORD thy God is he who goes over before thee as a devouring fire. He will destroy them, and he will bring them down before thee. So thou shall drive them out, and make them to perish quickly, as LORD h
Psalms 97:3A fire goes before him, and burns up his adversaries round about.
Daniel 7:9I beheld till thrones were placed, and one who was ancient of days sat. His raiment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool. His throne was fiery flames, [and] the wheels of it burning fire.
Hebrews 10:27but a certain fearful expectation of judgment and of fire, a fervor that is going to devour the opposition.
Matthew Henry on Hebrews 12:19-29
Nature of the Christian Economy. ( a. d. 62.) 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 they 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 touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart: 21 And so terrible was the sight, that… Read the whole commentary →