Hebrews 12:29
For euen our God is a consuming fire.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
For our God is a consuming fire.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 24:17And the sight of the glorie of the Lord was like consuming fire on the top of the moutaine, in the eyes of the children of Israel.
Numbers 16:35But there came out a fire from the Lord, and consumed the two hundreth and fiftie men that offred the incense.
Deuteronomy 9:3Vnderstand therefore that this day ye Lord thy God is he which goeth ouer before thee as a consuming fire: he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them downe before thy face: so thou shalt cast them out and destroy them suddenly, as the Lord hath said vnto thee.
Psalms 97:3There shall goe a fire before him, and burne vp his enemies round about.
Daniel 7:9I behelde, till the thrones were set vp, and the Ancient of dayes did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the heare of his head like the pure wooll: his throne was like the fierie flame, and his wheeles as burning fire.
Hebrews 10:27But a fearefull looking for of iudgement, and violent fire, which shall deuoure the aduersaries.
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 →