Hebrews 12:29
For our God is a consuming fire.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
For our God is a consuming fire.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 24:17And the sight of the glory of the Lord was like a burning fire upon the top of the mount, in the eyes of the children of Israel.
Numbers 16:35And a fire coming out from the Lord, destroyed the two hundred and fifty men that offered the incense.
Deuteronomy 9:3Thou shalt know therefore this day that the Lord thy God himself will pass over before thee, a devouring and consuming fire, to destroy and extirpate and bring them to nothing before thy face quickly, as he hath spoken to thee.
Psalms 97:3A fire shall go before him, and shall burn his enemies round about.
Daniel 7:9I beheld till thrones were placed, and the Ancient of days sat: his garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like clean wool: his throne like flames of fire: the wheels of it like a burning fire.
Hebrews 10:27But a certain dreadful expectation of judgment, and the rage of a fire which shall consume the 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 →