20. for they could not bear to hear the command: “If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned.”
21. Indeed, so fearful was the spectacle that Moses said, “I am terrified and trembling.”
22. No, you have approached Mount Zion and the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and countless angels in festal gathering,
23. and the assembly of the firstborn enrolled in heaven, and God the judge of all, and the spirits of the just made perfect,
24. and Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and the sprinkled blood that speaks more eloquently than that of Abel.
25. See that you do not reject the one who speaks. For if they did not escape when they refused the one who warned them on earth, how much more in our case if we turn away from the one who warns from heaven.
26. His voice shook the earth at that time, but now he has promised, “I will once more shake not only earth but heaven.”
27. That phrase, “once more,” points to [the] removal of shaken, created things, so that what is unshaken may remain.
28. Therefore, we who are receiving the unshakable kingdom should have gratitude, with which we should offer worship pleasing to God in reverence and awe.
29. For our God is a consuming fire.