Hebrews 12:29

Authorized King James Version (1611)

For our God [is] a consuming fire.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 4:24 : 24 For the LORD thy God [is] a consuming fire, [even] a jealous God.
  • Deut 9:3 : 3 Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God [is] he which goeth over before thee; [as] a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD hath said unto thee.
  • Heb 10:27 : 27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
  • Exod 24:17 : 17 And the sight of the glory of the LORD [was] like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.
  • Num 11:1 : 1 ¶ And [when] the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and the LORD heard [it]; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and consumed [them that were] in the uttermost parts of the camp.
  • Num 16:35 : 35 ¶ And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.
  • Ps 97:3 : 3 A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.
  • Isa 66:15 : 15 ¶ For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
  • Dan 7:9 : 9 ¶ I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment [was] white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne [was like] the fiery flame, [and] his wheels [as] burning fire.
  • 2 Thess 1:8 : 8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
  • Ps 50:3 : 3 Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.

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  • 24For the LORD thy God [is] a consuming fire, [even] a jealous God.

  • Heb 12:27-28
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    27And this [word], Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.

    28Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:

  • 27But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.

  • 14As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;

  • 3Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.

  • 7The voice of the LORD divideth the flames of fire.

  • 20Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.

  • 9There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.

  • 22For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

  • 13Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled.

  • 3A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.

  • 12For it [is] a fire [that] consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.

  • 31[It is] a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

  • 25Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any more, then we shall die.

  • 14The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?

  • Isa 9:18-19
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    18For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up [like] the lifting up of smoke.

    19Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother.

  • 8There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.

  • 9Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.

  • 38Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that [was] in the trench.

  • 17And the sight of the glory of the LORD [was] like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.

  • 24And there came a fire out from before the LORD, and consumed upon the altar the burnt offering and the fat: [which] when all the people saw, they shouted, and fell on their faces.

  • 12Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?

  • 8In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:

  • 15¶ For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.

  • 3Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God [is] he which goeth over before thee; [as] a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD hath said unto thee.

  • 27¶ Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning [with] his anger, and the burden [thereof is] heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:

  • 18And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.

  • Isa 33:11-12
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    11Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, [as] fire, shall devour you.

    12And the people shall be [as] the burnings of lime: [as] thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.

  • 7¶ For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.

  • Nah 1:5-6
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    5The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.

    6Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.

  • 15(For the LORD thy God [is] a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the LORD thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth.

  • 17If it be [so], our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver [us] out of thine hand, O king.

  • 2As [when] the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, [that] the nations may tremble at thy presence!

  • 48‹Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.›

  • 3And he called the name of the place Taberah: because the fire of the LORD burnt among them.

  • 35¶ And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.

  • 31Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD.

  • 7And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.

  • 14And I will make [thee] to pass with thine enemies into a land [which] thou knowest not: for a fire is kindled in mine anger, [which] shall burn upon you.

  • 2And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD.

  • 18And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.

  • 12At the brightness [that was] before him his thick clouds passed, hail [stones] and coals of fire.

  • 10Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones be burned.

  • 13The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar; it shall never go out.

  • 6Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.

  • 9And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the LORD, whose fire [is] in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.