Deuteronomy 5:25

KJV1611 – Modern English

Now 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.

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  • Deut 18:16 : 16 According to all that you desired of the LORD your God in Horeb on the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, nor let me see this great fire anymore, lest I die.
  • Deut 33:2 : 2 And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir to them; he shined forth from Mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them.
  • 2 Cor 3:7-9 : 7 But if the ministry of death, written and engraved on stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not steadily behold the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away: 8 How shall not the ministry of the Spirit be rather glorious? 9 For if the ministry of condemnation is glory, much more does the ministry of righteousness exceed in glory.
  • Gal 3:10 : 10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse, for it is written: 'Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.'
  • Gal 3:21-22 : 21 Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could have given life, then truly righteousness would have been by the law. 22 But the Scripture has concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.
  • Heb 12:29 : 29 For our God is a consuming fire.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 5:26-28
    3 verses
    88%

    26For who is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?

    27Go near, and hear all that the LORD our God shall say: and speak to us all that the LORD our God shall speak to you; and we will hear it, and do it.

    28And the LORD heard the voice of your words, when you spoke to me; and the LORD said to me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken to you: they have spoken well all that they have spoken.

  • Deut 5:22-24
    3 verses
    83%

    22These words the LORD spoke to all your assembly on the mountain out of the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the thick darkness, with a great voice: and He added no more. And He wrote them on two tablets of stone, and delivered them to me.

    23And it happened, when you heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, (for the mountain burned with fire,) that you came near to me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;

    24And you said, Behold, the LORD our God has shown 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 does talk with man, and he lives.

  • Exod 20:18-19
    2 verses
    80%

    18And all the people saw the thunderings, the lightning flashes, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it, they trembled and stood afar off.

    19Then they said to Moses, 'You speak with us and we will hear; but let not God speak with us, lest we die.’

  • Deut 18:16
    78%

    16According to all that you desired of the LORD your God in Horeb on the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, nor let me see this great fire anymore, lest I die.

  • Num 17:12-13
    2 verses
    78%

    12And the children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, Behold, we perish, we are undone, we are all undone.

    13Whoever comes near the tabernacle of the LORD must die: will we all be consumed with dying?

  • Deut 4:33
    78%

    33Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live?

  • Deut 5:2-5
    4 verses
    74%

    2The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.

    3The LORD did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive today.

    4The LORD talked with you face to face on the mountain out of the midst of the fire,

    5(I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to show you the word of the LORD: for you were afraid because of the fire, and did not go up into the mountain;) saying,

  • Heb 12:29
    73%

    29For our God is a consuming fire.

  • Exod 14:11-12
    2 verses
    73%

    11And they said to Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? why have you dealt with us in this way, to bring us out of Egypt?

    12Is not this the word that we told you in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than to die in the wilderness.

  • Deut 4:36
    73%

    36Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might instruct you: and upon earth he showed you his great fire; and you heard his words out of the midst of the fire.

  • Deut 4:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11And you came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.

    12And the LORD spoke to you out of the midst of the fire: you heard the voice of the words, but saw no form; only you heard a voice.

  • Num 20:3-4
    2 verses
    72%

    3And the people argued with Moses and spoke, saying, "Would God that we had died when our brothers died before the LORD!

    4And why have you brought the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness so that we and our livestock should die here?

  • Heb 12:19
    72%

    19And the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words, so that those who heard it begged that the word should not be spoken to them anymore:

  • Judg 13:22
    71%

    22And Manoah said to his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.

  • Ezra 9:14
    71%

    14Should we again break Your commandments and join in affinity with the peoples of these abominations? Would You not be angry with us until You had consumed us, so that there should be no remnant or escaping?

  • Exod 16:3
    71%

    3And the children of Israel said to them, If only we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat, and when we ate bread to the full; for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.

  • Deut 6:24
    71%

    24And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is to this day.

  • Heb 12:25
    70%

    25See that you do not refuse him who speaks. For if they did not escape who refused him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from him who speaks from heaven:

  • Amos 5:6
    70%

    6Seek the LORD, and you shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel.

  • Deut 4:15
    70%

    15Take therefore good heed to yourselves; for you saw no form on the day that the LORD spoke to you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:

  • Num 14:15
    70%

    15Now if you shall kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying,

  • Exod 24:17
    70%

    17And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel.

  • Exod 19:21
    70%

    21And the LORD said to Moses, Go down, warn the people, lest they break through to the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish.

  • Ps 95:7
    70%

    7For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. Today if you will hear his voice,

  • Num 16:34
    70%

    34And all Israel that were around them fled at their cry: for they said, Lest the earth swallows us up also.

  • Jer 16:10
    70%

    10And it shall come to pass, when you show this people all these words, and they say to you, Why has the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?

  • Deut 1:19
    70%

    19And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which you saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh Barnea.

  • Jer 42:13
    70%

    13But if you say, We will not dwell in this land, neither obey the voice of the LORD your God,

  • Deut 1:6
    70%

    6The LORD our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying, You have dwelt long enough in this mountain:

  • Num 14:2-3
    2 verses
    69%

    2And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said to them, Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would that we had died in this wilderness!

    3Why has the LORD brought us to this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be prey? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?

  • 2 Kgs 7:4
    69%

    4If we say, We will enter the city, there the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us surrender to the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.

  • Josh 22:24
    69%

    24And if we have not rather done it for fear of this thing, saying, In time to come your children might speak to our children, saying, What have you to do with the LORD God of Israel?

  • Dan 9:14
    69%

    14Therefore the LORD has watched over the calamity, and brought it upon us: for the LORD our God is righteous in all His works which He does: for we have not obeyed His voice.

  • Lam 5:9
    69%

    9We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.

  • Lev 10:2
    69%

    2Then fire went out from the Lord and consumed them, and they died before the Lord.

  • Exod 19:12
    69%

    12And you shall set boundaries for the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that you do not go up into the mount, or touch the border of it; whoever touches the mount shall surely be put to death:

  • Exod 10:25
    69%

    25And Moses said, You must also give us sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.