Hebrews 12:29
For our God is a consuming fire.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
For our God is a consuming fire.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 24:17Now the appearance of the glory of the Lord was like a burning fire over the summit of the mountain in the sight of the sons of Israel.
Numbers 16:35Then, too, a fire, going forth from the Lord, put to death the two hundred fifty men who were offering the incense.
Deuteronomy 9:3Therefore, you shall know today that the Lord your God himself will pass over before you, like a devouring and consuming fire, to crush and to wipe away and to utterly ruin them before your face, quickly, just as he has spoken to you.
Psalms 97:3He has remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
Daniel 7:9I watched until thrones were set up, and the Ancient of days sat down. His garment was radiant like snow, and the hair of his head like clean wool; his throne was flames of fire, its wheels had been set on fire.
Hebrews 10:27but instead, a certain terrible expectation of judgment, and the rage of a fire that shall consume its adversaries.
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 →