Deuteronomy 5:26

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For 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?

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  • Deut 4:33 : 33 Has any people ever gone on living after hearing the voice of God out of the heart of the fire as you did?
  • Rom 3:20 : 20 Because by the works of the law no man is able to have righteousness in his eyes, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
  • 2 Cor 6:16 : 16 And what agreement has the house of God with images? for we are a house of the living God; even as God has said, I will be living among them, and walking with them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.
  • 1 Thess 1:9 : 9 For they themselves give the news of how we came among you; and how you were turned from images to God, to the worship of a true and living God,
  • Gen 6:12 : 12 And God, looking on the earth, saw that it was evil: for the way of all flesh had become evil on the earth.
  • Josh 3:10 : 10 And Joshua said, By this you will see that the living God is among you, and that he will certainly send out from before you the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Hivite and the Perizzite and the Girgashite and the Amorite and the Jebusite.
  • Ps 42:2 : 2 My soul is dry for need of God, the living God; when may I come and see the face of God?
  • Ps 84:2 : 2 The passion of my soul's desire is for the house of the Lord; my heart and my flesh are crying out for the living God.
  • Isa 40:6 : 6 A voice of one saying, Give a cry! And I said, What is my cry to be? All flesh is grass, and all its strength like the flower of the field.
  • Jer 10:10 : 10 But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God and an eternal king: when he is angry, the earth is shaking with fear, and the nations give way before his wrath.
  • Dan 6:26 : 26 Then King Darius sent a letter to all the peoples, nations, and languages, living in all the earth: May your peace be increased.
  • Matt 26:63 : 63 But Jesus said not a word. And the high priest said to him, I put you on oath, by the living God, that you will say to us if you are the Christ, the Son of God.
  • Acts 14:15 : 15 Good people, why are you doing these things? We are men with the same feelings as you, and we give you the good news so that you may be turned away from these foolish things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all things in them:

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  • Deut 5:22-25
    4 verses
    88%

    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.

    25Why 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.

  • Deut 4:32-34
    3 verses
    86%

    32Give thought now to the days which are past, before your time, from the day when God first gave life to man on the earth, and searching from one end of heaven to the other, see if such a great thing as this has ever been, or if anything like it has been talked of in story.

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

    34Has God ever before taken a nation for himself from out of another nation, by punishments and signs and wonders, by war and by a strong hand and a stretched-out arm and great acts of wonder and fear, as the Lord your God did for you in Egypt, before your very eyes?

  • Deut 5:27-28
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    81%

    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 5:2-5
    4 verses
    79%

    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,

  • Deut 4:11-12
    2 verses
    77%

    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.

  • Deut 4:36
    76%

    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.

  • Exod 20:18-19
    2 verses
    75%

    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 18:16-17
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    75%

    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.

    17Then the Lord said to me, What they have said is well said.

  • Num 17:12-13
    2 verses
    71%

    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 4:15
    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:

  • Heb 12:19
    70%

    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:

  • Heb 12:29
    69%

    29For our God is an all-burning fire.

  • Num 12:2
    69%

    2And they said, Have the words of the Lord been given to Moses only? have they not come to us? And the Lord took note of it.

  • Deut 1:19
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    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.

  • Deut 1:6
    69%

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

  • Exod 20:22
    69%

    22And the Lord said to Moses, Say to the children of Israel, You yourselves have seen that my voice has come to you from heaven

  • Acts 7:38
    68%

    38This is the man who was in the church in the waste land with the angel who was talking to him in Sinai, and with our fathers; and to him were given the living words of God, so that he might give them to you.

  • Acts 7:31
    68%

    31And Moses, seeing it, was full of wonder, and when he came up to have a nearer view of it, the voice of the Lord came to him, saying,

  • Exod 24:17
    68%

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

  • Isa 33:14
    68%

    14The sinners in Zion are full of fear; the haters of God are shaking with wonder. Who among us may keep his place before the burning fire? who among us may see the eternal burnings?

  • Num 14:28
    68%

    28Say to them, By my life, says the Lord, as certainly as your words have come to my ears, so certainly will I do this to you:

  • 2 Pet 1:18
    68%

    18And this voice came from heaven even to our ears, when we were with him on the holy mountain.

  • Num 14:22
    68%

    22Because all these men, having seen my glory and the signs which I have done in Egypt and in the waste land, still have put me to the test ten times, and have not given ear to my voice;

  • Exod 19:8
    68%

    8And all the people, answering together, said, Whatever the Lord has said we will do. And Moses took back to the Lord the words of the people.

  • Deut 6:24
    68%

    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.

  • Exod 24:3
    68%

    3Then Moses came and put before the people all the words of the Lord and his laws: and all the people, answering with one voice, said, Whatever the Lord has said we will do.

  • Josh 2:11
    68%

    11And because of this news, our hearts became like water, and there was no more spirit in any of us because of you; for the Lord your God is God in heaven on high and here on earth.

  • Deut 4:7
    68%

    7For what great nation has a god so near to them as the Lord our God is, whenever we are turned to him in prayer?

  • Deut 29:16
    68%

    16(For you have in mind how we were living in the land of Egypt; and how we came through all the nations which were on your way;

  • Num 14:14
    67%

    14And they will give the news to the people of this land: they have had word that you, Lord, are present with this people, letting yourself be seen face to face, and that your cloud is resting over them, and that you go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.

  • Exod 20:1
    67%

    1And God said all these words:

  • Exod 19:19
    67%

    19And when the sound of the horn became louder and louder, Moses' words were answered by the voice of God.

  • Josh 24:17
    67%

    17For it is the Lord our God who has taken us and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house, and who did all those great signs before our eyes, and kept us safe on all our journeys, and among all the peoples through whom we went:

  • Heb 12:25
    67%

    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?

  • Ps 29:7
    67%

    7At the voice of the Lord flames of fire are seen.

  • Deut 30:13
    67%

    13And they are not across the sea, for you to say, Who will go over the sea for us and give us news of them so that we may do them?

  • Exod 19:16
    67%

    16And when morning came on the third day, there were thunders and flames and a thick cloud on the mountain, and a horn sounding very loud; and all the people in the tents were shaking with fear.