Hebrews 12:18

American Standard Version (1901)

For ye are not come unto [a mount] that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 4:11 : 11 And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the heart of heaven, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.
  • Exod 20:18 : 18 And all the people perceived the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the voice of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they trembled, and stood afar off.
  • Exod 24:17 : 17 And 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.
  • Exod 19:12-22 : 12 And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death: 13 no hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, he shall not live: when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount. 14 And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their garments. 15 And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not near a woman. 16 And it came to pass on the third day, when it was morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of a trumpet exceeding loud; and all the people that were in the camp trembled. 17 And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount. 18 And mount Sinai, the whole of it, smoked, because Jehovah descended upon it in fire; and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly. 19 And when the voice of the trumpet waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice. 20 And Jehovah came down upon mount Sinai, to the top of the mount: and Jehovah called Moses to the top of the mount; and Moses went up. 21 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto Jehovah to gaze, and many of them perish. 22 And let the priests also, that come near to Jehovah, sanctify themselves, lest Jehovah break forth upon them.
  • Deut 5:22-26 : 22 These words Jehovah spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them upon two tables of stone, and gave them unto me. 23 And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, that ye came near unto me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders; 24 and ye said, Behold, Jehovah our God hath showed us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God doth speak with man, and he liveth. 25 Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of Jehovah our God any more, then we shall die. 26 For who is there of all flesh, that hath heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?
  • Rom 6:14 : 14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under law, but under grace.
  • Rom 8:15 : 15 For ye received not the spirit of bondage again unto fear; but ye received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
  • 2 Cor 3:9 : 9 For if the ministration of condemnation hath glory, much rather doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
  • 2 Tim 1:7 : 7 For God gave us not a spirit of fearfulness; but of power and love and discipline.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 4:11-12
    2 verses
    81%

    11And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the heart of heaven, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.

    12And Jehovah spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of words, but ye saw no form; only [ye heard] a voice.

  • Heb 12:19-22
    4 verses
    79%

    19and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which [voice] they that heard entreated that no word more should be spoken unto them;

    20for they could not endure that which was enjoined, If even a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned;

    21and so fearful was the appearance, [that] Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:

    22but ye are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable hosts of angels,

  • Deut 5:22-23
    2 verses
    77%

    22These words Jehovah spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them upon two tables of stone, and gave them unto me.

    23And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, that ye came near unto me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;

  • Exod 20:18
    74%

    18And all the people perceived the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the voice of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they trembled, and stood afar off.

  • Exod 19:16-18
    3 verses
    74%

    16And it came to pass on the third day, when it was morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of a trumpet exceeding loud; and all the people that were in the camp trembled.

    17And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount.

    18And mount Sinai, the whole of it, smoked, because Jehovah descended upon it in fire; and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.

  • Heb 12:17
    74%

    17For ye know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected; for he found no place for a change of mind [in his father], though he sought it diligently with tears.

  • Exod 19:12
    73%

    12And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death:

  • 2 Pet 1:18
    72%

    18and this voice we [ourselves] heard borne out of heaven, when we were with him in the holy mount.

  • Heb 12:25-29
    5 verses
    72%

    25See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not when they refused him that warned [them] on earth, much more [shall not] we [escape] who turn away from him that [warneth] from heaven:

    26whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more will I make to tremble not the earth only, but also the heaven.

    27And this [word], Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain.

    28Wherefore, receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us have grace, whereby we may offer service well-pleasing to God with reverence and awe:

    29for our God is a consuming fire.

  • Deut 4:15
    72%

    15Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of form on the day that Jehovah spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire.

  • Exod 34:2-3
    2 verses
    72%

    2And be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me on the top of the mount.

    3And no man shall come up with thee; neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mount.

  • Ps 18:12
    71%

    12At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, Hailstones and coals of fire.

  • Deut 5:4-5
    2 verses
    71%

    4Jehovah spake with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire,

    5(I stood between Jehovah and you at that time, to show you the word of Jehovah: for ye were afraid because of the fire, and went not up into the mount;) saying,

  • Deut 4:36
    71%

    36Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he made thee to see his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.

  • Deut 18:16
    70%

    16according to all that thou desiredst of Jehovah thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of Jehovah my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.

  • Exod 20:21
    70%

    21And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.

  • Heb 12:4-5
    2 verses
    70%

    4Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin:

    5and ye have forgotten the exhortation which reasoneth with you as with sons, My son, regard not lightly the chastening of the Lord, Nor faint when thou art reproved of him;

  • Deut 9:8
    70%

    8Also in Horeb ye provoked Jehovah to wrath, and Jehovah was angry with you to destroy you.

  • Exod 24:17-18
    2 verses
    70%

    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.

    18And Moses entered into the midst of the cloud, and went up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.

  • Deut 9:15
    70%

    15So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount was burning with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.

  • Deut 9:22
    69%

    22And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked Jehovah to wrath.

  • Exod 19:20
    69%

    20And Jehovah came down upon mount Sinai, to the top of the mount: and Jehovah called Moses to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.

  • Deut 1:33
    69%

    33who went before you in the way, to seek you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to show you by what way ye should go, and in the cloud by day.

  • Heb 8:5
    69%

    5who serve [that which is] a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses is warned [of God] when he is about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern that was showed thee in the mount.

  • Exod 19:23-24
    2 verses
    69%

    23And Moses said unto Jehovah, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for thou didst charge us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it.

    24And Jehovah said unto him, Go, get thee down; and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the people break through to come up unto Jehovah, lest he break forth upon them.

  • 2 Cor 3:13
    69%

    13and [are] not as Moses, [who] put a veil upon his face, that the children of Israel should not look stedfastly on the end of that which was passing away: [

  • Heb 10:27
    69%

    27but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which shall devour the adversaries.

  • 1 Kgs 19:11-12
    2 verses
    69%

    11And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before Jehovah. And, behold, Jehovah passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before Jehovah; but Jehovah was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but Jehovah was not in the earthquake:

    12and after the earthquake a fire; but Jehovah was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.

  • 2 Pet 2:17
    68%

    17These are springs without water, and mists driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness hath been reserved.

  • Num 18:22
    68%

    22And henceforth the children of Israel shall not come nigh the tent of meeting, lest they bear sin, and die.

  • Deut 1:6
    68%

    6Jehovah our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mountain:

  • Deut 1:43
    68%

    43So I spake unto you, and ye hearkened not; but ye rebelled against the commandment of Jehovah, and were presumptuous, and went up into the hill-country.

  • Josh 22:18
    68%

    18that ye must turn away this day from following Jehovah? and it will be, seeing ye rebel to-day against Jehovah, that to-morrow he will be wroth with the whole congregation of Israel.