Deuteronomy 5:25

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Why then is death to be our fate? For if the voice of the Lord our God comes to us any more, death will overtake us, and we will be burned up in this great fire.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 18:16 : 16 In answer to the request you made to the Lord your God in Horeb on the day of the great meeting, when you said, Let not the voice of the Lord my God come to my ears again, and let me not see this great fire any more, or death will overtake me.
  • Deut 33:2 : 2 He said, The Lord came from Sinai, dawning on them from Seir; shining out from Mount Paran, coming from Meribath Kadesh: from his right hand went flames of fire: his wrath made waste the peoples.
  • 2 Cor 3:7-9 : 7 For if the operation of the law, giving death, recorded in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the eyes of the children of Israel had to be turned away from the face of Moses because of its glory, a glory which was only for a time: 8 Will not the operation of the Spirit have a much greater glory? 9 For if the operation of the law, producing punishment, had its glory, how much greater will be the operation of the Spirit causing righteousness?
  • Gal 3:10 : 10 For all who are of the works of the law are under a curse: because it is said in the Writings, A curse is on everyone who does not keep on doing all the things which are ordered in the book of the law.
  • Gal 3:21-22 : 21 Is the law then against the words of God? in no way; because if there had been a law which was able to give life, truly righteousness would have been by the law. 22 However, the holy Writings have put all things under sin, so that that for which God gave the undertaking, based on faith in Jesus Christ, might be given to those who have such faith.
  • Heb 12:29 : 29 For our God is an all-burning fire.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 5:26-28
    3 verses
    88%

    26For what man is there in all the earth, who, hearing the voice of the living God as we have, out of the heart of the fire, has been kept from death?

    27Do you go near: and after hearing everything which the Lord our God has to say, give us an account of all he has said to you, and we will give ear, and do it.

    28Then the Lord, hearing your words to me, said to me, The words which this people have said to you have come to my ears: what they have said is well said.

  • Deut 5:22-24
    3 verses
    83%

    22These words the Lord said to all of you together on the mountain, out of the heart of the fire, out of the cloud and the dark, with a great voice: and he said no more; he put them in writing on the two stones of the law and gave them to me.

    23And after hearing the voice which came out of the dark while the mountain was burning with fire, all the heads of your tribes and your chiefs came to me,

    24And said, The Lord has let us see his glory and his power, and his voice has come to us out of the fire: today we have seen that a man may go on living even after hearing the voice of God.

  • Exod 20:18-19
    2 verses
    80%

    18And all the people were watching the thunderings and the flames and the sound of the horn and the mountain smoking; and when they saw it, they kept far off, shaking with fear.

    19And they said to Moses, To your words we will give ear, but let not the voice of God come to our ears, for fear death may come on us.

  • Deut 18:16
    78%

    16In answer to the request you made to the Lord your God in Horeb on the day of the great meeting, when you said, Let not the voice of the Lord my God come to my ears again, and let me not see this great fire any more, or death will overtake me.

  • Num 17:12-13
    2 verses
    78%

    12And the children of Israel said to Moses, Truly, destruction has come on us; an evil fate has overtaken us all.

    13Death will overtake everyone who comes near, who comes near the House of the Lord: are we all to come to destruction?

  • Deut 4:33
    78%

    33Has any people ever gone on living after hearing the voice of God out of the heart of the fire as you did?

  • Deut 5:2-5
    4 verses
    74%

    2The Lord our God made an agreement with us in Horeb.

    3The Lord did not make this agreement with our fathers but with us, who are all living and present here today.

    4The word of the Lord came to you face to face on the mountain, out of the heart of the fire,

    5(I was between the Lord and you at that time, to make clear to you the word of the Lord: because, through fear of the fire, you did not go up the mountain;) saying,

  • Heb 12:29
    73%

    29For our God is an all-burning fire.

  • Exod 14:11-12
    2 verses
    73%

    11And they said to Moses, Was there no resting-place for the dead in Egypt, that you have taken us away to come to our death in the waste land? why have you taken us out of Egypt?

    12Did we not say to you in Egypt, Let us be as we are, working for the Egyptians? for it is better to be the servants of the Egyptians than to come to our death in the waste land.

  • Deut 4:36
    73%

    36Out of heaven itself his voice came to you, teaching you; and on earth he let you see his great fire; and his words came to your ears out of the heart of the fire.

  • Deut 4:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11And you came near, waiting at the foot of the mountain; and flames of fire went up from the mountain to the heart of heaven, with dark clouds, and all was black as night.

    12And the voice of the Lord came to you out of the fire: the sound of his words came to your ears but you saw no form; there was nothing but a voice.

  • Num 20:3-4
    2 verses
    72%

    3And the people were angry with Moses and said, If only death had overtaken us when our brothers came to their death before the Lord!

    4Why have you taken the Lord's people into this waste, for death to come to us and to our cattle there?

  • Heb 12:19
    72%

    19And to the sound of a horn, and the voice of words, the hearers of which made request that not a word more might be said to them:

  • Judg 13:22
    71%

    22And Manoah said to his wife, Death will certainly be our fate, for it is a god whom we have seen.

  • Ezra 9:14
    71%

    14Are we again to go against your orders, taking wives from among the people who do these disgusting things? would you not be angry with us till our destruction was complete, till there was not one who got away safe?

  • Exod 16:3
    71%

    3And the children of Israel said to them, It would have been better for the Lord to have put us to death in the land of Egypt, where we were seated by the flesh-pots and had bread enough for our needs; for you have taken us out to this waste of sand, to put all this people to death through need of food.

  • Deut 6:24
    71%

    24And the Lord gave us orders to keep all these laws, in the fear of the Lord our God, so that it might be well for us for ever, and that he might keep us from death, as he has done to this day.

  • Heb 12:25
    70%

    25See that you give ear to his voice which comes to you. For if those whose ears were shut to the voice which came to them on earth did not go free from punishment, what chance have we of going free if we give no attention to him whose voice comes from heaven?

  • Amos 5:6
    70%

    6Go to the Lord for help so that you may have life; for fear that he may come like fire bursting out in the family of Joseph, causing destruction, and there will be no one to put it out in Beth-el.

  • Deut 4:15
    70%

    15So keep watch on yourselves with care; for you saw no form of any sort on the day when the voice of the Lord came to you in Horeb out of the heart of the fire:

  • Num 14:15
    70%

    15Now if you put to death all this people as one man, then the nations who have had word of your glory will say,

  • Exod 24:17
    70%

    17And the glory of the Lord was like a flame on the top of the mountain before the eyes of the children of Israel.

  • Exod 19:21
    70%

    21And the Lord said to Moses, Go down and give the people orders to keep back, for fear that a great number of them, forcing their way through to see the Lord, may come to destruction.

  • Ps 95:7
    70%

    7For he is our God; and we are the people to whom he gives food, and the sheep of his flock. Today, if you would only give ear to his voice!

  • Num 16:34
    70%

    34And all Israel round about them went in flight at their cry, For fear, said they, that we go down into the heart of the earth.

  • Jer 16:10
    70%

    10And it will be, that when you say all these words to the people, then they will say to you, Why has the Lord done all this evil against us? what is our wrongdoing and what is our sin which we have done against the Lord our God?

  • Deut 1:19
    70%

    19Then we went on from Horeb, through all that great and cruel waste which you saw, on our way to the hill-country of the Amorites, as the Lord gave us orders; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.

  • Jer 42:13
    70%

    13But if you say, We have no desire to go on living in this land; and do not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God,

  • Deut 1:6
    70%

    6The Lord our God said to us in Horeb, You have been long enough in this mountain:

  • Num 14:2-3
    2 verses
    69%

    2And all the children of Israel, crying out against Moses and Aaron, said, If only we had come to our death in the land of Egypt, or even in this waste land!

    3Why is the Lord taking us into this land to come to our death by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will get into strange hands: would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?

  • 2 Kgs 7:4
    69%

    4If we say, We will go into the town, there is no food in the town, and we will come to our end there; and if we go on waiting here, death will come to us. Come then, let us give ourselves up to the army of Aram: if they let us go on living, then life will be ours; and if they put us to death, then death will be ours.

  • Josh 22:24
    69%

    24And if we have not, in fact, done this designedly and with purpose, having in our minds the fear that in time to come your children might say to our children, What have you to do with the Lord, the God of Israel?

  • Dan 9:14
    69%

    14So the Lord has been watching over this evil and has made it come on us: for the Lord our God is upright in all his acts which he has done, and we have not given ear to his voice.

  • Lam 5:9
    69%

    9We put our lives in danger to get our bread, because of the sword of the waste land.

  • Lev 10:2
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    2And fire came out from before the Lord, burning them up and causing their destruction before the Lord.

  • Exod 19:12
    69%

    12And let limits be marked out for the people round the mountain, and say to them, Take care not to go up the mountain or near the sides of it: whoever puts his foot on the mountain will certainly come to his death:

  • Exod 10:25
    69%

    25But Moses said, You will have to let us take burned offerings to put before the Lord our God.