Hebrews 12:29

for also the God of{us} [is] [a] devouring-down fire.

Garth's Hyper-literal Translation

In The King James Version

For our God is a consuming fire.

In Context

28through-which, taking-aside [an] unshaken kingdom, we-may-be-having grace/favor through of{which} we-may-be-rendering-employment well-pleasingly to{the God} alongside of{modesty} and of{well-take-ia/discretion},

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Cross References

Hebrews 10:27moreover, what fearful reception-out of{judge-sis[i.e. state of judgment]}, and of{fire}, zeal of{being-about} to-be-eating the[plural] under-in-in-place-of/subcontrary/contradictory/incongruous.

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 →

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