Hebrews 12:29
for our God is also a consuming fire.
ASV Byzantine Text
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 Jehovah was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.
Numbers 16:35And fire came forth from Jehovah, and devoured the two hundred and fifty men that offered the incense.
Deuteronomy 9:3Know therefore this day, that Jehovah thy God is he who goeth over before thee as a devouring fire; he will destroy them, and he will bring them down before thee: so shalt thou drive them out, and make them to perish quickly, as Jehovah hath spoken unto thee.
Psalms 97:3A fire goeth before him, And burneth up his adversaries round about.
Daniel 7:9I beheld till thrones were placed, and one that was ancient of days did sit: his raiment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool; his throne was fiery flames, and the wheels thereof burning fire.
Hebrews 10:27but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which shall devour 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 →