Hebrews 12:18

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For you have not come to something that can be touched, to a burning fire and darkness and gloom and a whirlwind

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 4:11 : 11 You approached and stood at the foot of the mountain, a mountain ablaze to the sky above it and yet dark with a thick cloud.
  • Exod 20:18 : 18 All the people were seeing the thundering and the lightning, and heard the sound of the horn, and saw the mountain smoking– and when the people saw it they trembled with fear and kept their distance.
  • Exod 24:17 : 17 Now the appearance of the glory of the LORD was like a devouring fire on the top of the mountain in plain view of the people.
  • Exod 19:12-22 : 12 You must set boundaries for the people all around, saying,‘Take heed to yourselves not to go up on the mountain nor touch its edge. Whoever touches the mountain will surely be put to death! 13 No hand will touch him– but he will surely be stoned or shot through, whether a beast or a human being; he must not live.’ When the ram’s horn sounds a long blast they may go up on the mountain.” 14 Then Moses went down from the mountain to the people and sanctified the people, and they washed their clothes. 15 He said to the people,“Be ready for the third day. Do not approach your wives for marital relations.” 16 On the third day in the morning there was thunder and lightning and a dense cloud on the mountain, and the sound of a very loud horn; all the people who were in the camp trembled. 17 Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they took their place at the foot of the mountain. 18 Now Mount Sinai was completely covered with smoke because the LORD had descended on it in fire, and its smoke went up like the smoke of a great furnace, and the whole mountain shook violently. 19 When the sound of the horn grew louder and louder, Moses was speaking and God was answering him with a voice. 20 The LORD came down on Mount Sinai, on the top of the mountain, and the LORD summoned Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up. 21 The LORD said to Moses,“Go down and solemnly warn the people, lest they force their way through to the LORD to look, and many of them perish. 22 Let the priests also, who approach the LORD, sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break through against them.”
  • Deut 5:22-26 : 22 The Narrative of the Sinai Revelation and Israel’s Response The LORD said these things to your entire assembly at the mountain from the middle of the fire, the cloud, and the darkness with a loud voice, and that was all he said. Then he inscribed the words on two stone tablets and gave them to me. 23 Then, when you heard the voice from the midst of the darkness while the mountain was ablaze, all your tribal leaders and elders approached me. 24 You said,“The LORD our God has shown us his great glory and we have heard him speak from the middle of the fire. It is now clear to us that God can speak to human beings and they can keep on living. 25 But now, why should we die, because this intense fire will consume us! If we keep hearing the voice of the LORD our God we will die! 26 Who is there from the entire human race who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the middle of the fire as we have, and has lived?
  • Rom 6:14 : 14 For sin will have no mastery over you, because you are not under law but under grace.
  • Rom 8:15 : 15 For you did not receive the spirit of slavery leading again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry,“Abba, Father.”
  • 2 Cor 3:9 : 9 For if there was glory in the ministry that produced condemnation, how much more does the ministry that produces righteousness excel in glory!
  • 2 Tim 1:7 : 7 For God did not give us a Spirit of fear but of power and love and self-control.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 4:11-12
    2 verses
    81%

    11You approached and stood at the foot of the mountain, a mountain ablaze to the sky above it and yet dark with a thick cloud.

    12Then the LORD spoke to you from the middle of the fire; you heard speech but you could not see anything– only a voice was heard.

  • Heb 12:19-22
    4 verses
    79%

    19and the blast of a trumpet and a voice uttering words such that those who heard begged to hear no more.

    20For they could not bear what was commanded:“If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned.”

    21In fact, the scene was so terrifying that Moses said,“I shudder with fear.”

    22But you have come to Mount Zion, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, to the assembly

  • Deut 5:22-23
    2 verses
    77%

    22The Narrative of the Sinai Revelation and Israel’s Response The LORD said these things to your entire assembly at the mountain from the middle of the fire, the cloud, and the darkness with a loud voice, and that was all he said. Then he inscribed the words on two stone tablets and gave them to me.

    23Then, when you heard the voice from the midst of the darkness while the mountain was ablaze, all your tribal leaders and elders approached me.

  • Exod 20:18
    74%

    18All the people were seeing the thundering and the lightning, and heard the sound of the horn, and saw the mountain smoking– and when the people saw it they trembled with fear and kept their distance.

  • Exod 19:16-18
    3 verses
    74%

    16On the third day in the morning there was thunder and lightning and a dense cloud on the mountain, and the sound of a very loud horn; all the people who were in the camp trembled.

    17Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they took their place at the foot of the mountain.

    18Now Mount Sinai was completely covered with smoke because the LORD had descended on it in fire, and its smoke went up like the smoke of a great furnace, and the whole mountain shook violently.

  • Heb 12:17
    74%

    17For you know that later when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no opportunity for repentance, although he sought the blessing with tears.

  • Exod 19:12
    73%

    12You must set boundaries for the people all around, saying,‘Take heed to yourselves not to go up on the mountain nor touch its edge. Whoever touches the mountain will surely be put to death!

  • 2 Pet 1:18
    72%

    18When this voice was conveyed from heaven, we ourselves heard it, for we were with him on the holy mountain.

  • Heb 12:25-29
    5 verses
    72%

    25Take care not to refuse the one who is speaking! For if they did not escape when they refused the one who warned them on earth, how much less shall we, if we reject the one who warns from heaven?

    26Then his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised,“I will once more shake not only the earth but heaven too.”

    27Now this phrase“once more” indicates the removal of what is shaken, that is, of created things, so that what is unshaken may remain.

    28So since we are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us give thanks, and through this let us offer worship pleasing to God in devotion and awe.

    29For our God is indeed a devouring fire.

  • Deut 4:15
    72%

    15The Nature of Israel’s God Be very careful, then, because you saw no form at the time the LORD spoke to you at Horeb from the middle of the fire.

  • Exod 34:2-3
    2 verses
    72%

    2Be prepared in the morning, and go up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and station yourself for me there on the top of the mountain.

    3No one is to come up with you; do not let anyone be seen anywhere on the mountain; not even the flocks or the herds may graze in front of that mountain.”

  • Ps 18:12
    71%

    12From the brightness in front of him came hail and fiery coals.

  • Deut 5:4-5
    2 verses
    71%

    4The LORD spoke face to face with you at the mountain, from the middle of the fire.

    5(I was standing between the LORD and you at that time to reveal the LORD’s message to you, because you were afraid of the fire and would not go up the mountain.) He said:

  • Deut 4:36
    71%

    36From heaven he spoke to you in order to teach you, and on earth he showed you his great fire from which you also heard his words.

  • Deut 18:16
    70%

    16This accords with what happened at Horeb in the day of the assembly. You asked the LORD your God:“Please do not make us hear the voice of the LORD our God any more or see this great fire any more lest we die.”

  • Exod 20:21
    70%

    21The people kept their distance, but Moses drew near the thick darkness where God was.

  • Heb 12:4-5
    2 verses
    70%

    4You have not yet resisted to the point of bloodshed in your struggle against sin.

    5And have you forgotten the exhortation addressed to you as sons?“My son, do not scorn the Lord’s discipline or give up when he corrects you.

  • Deut 9:8
    70%

    8At Horeb you provoked him and he was angry enough with you to destroy you.

  • Exod 24:17-18
    2 verses
    70%

    17Now the appearance of the glory of the LORD was like a devouring fire on the top of the mountain in plain view of the people.

    18Moses went into the cloud when he went up the mountain, and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

  • Deut 9:15
    70%

    15So I turned and went down the mountain while it was blazing with fire; the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands.

  • Deut 9:22
    69%

    22Moreover, you continued to provoke the LORD at Taberah, Massah, and Kibroth-Hattaavah.

  • Exod 19:20
    69%

    20The LORD came down on Mount Sinai, on the top of the mountain, and the LORD summoned Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.

  • Deut 1:33
    69%

    33the one who would go before you on the way to find places for you to camp, appearing in a fire at night and in a cloud by day to show you the way you ought to go.

  • Heb 8:5
    69%

    5The place where they serve is a sketch and shadow of the heavenly sanctuary, just as Moses was warned by God as he was about to complete the tabernacle. For he says,“See that you make everything according to the design shown to you on the mountain.”

  • Exod 19:23-24
    2 verses
    69%

    23Moses said to the LORD,“The people are not able to come up to Mount Sinai, because you solemnly warned us,‘Set boundaries for the mountain and set it apart.’”

    24The LORD said to him,“Go, get down, and come up, and Aaron with you, but do not let the priests and the people force their way through to come up to the LORD, lest he break through against them.”

  • 2 Cor 3:13
    69%

    13and not like Moses who used to put a veil over his face to keep the Israelites from staring at the result of the glory that was made ineffective.

  • Heb 10:27
    69%

    27but only a certain fearful expectation of judgment and a fury of fire that will consume God’s enemies.

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

    11The LORD said,“Go out and stand on the mountain before the LORD. Look, the LORD is ready to pass by.”A very powerful wind went before the LORD, digging into the mountain and causing landslides, but the LORD was not in the wind. After the windstorm there was an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake.

    12After the earthquake, there was a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire. After the fire, there was a soft whisper.

  • 2 Pet 2:17
    68%

    17These men are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm, for whom the utter depths of darkness have been reserved.

  • Num 18:22
    68%

    22No longer may the Israelites approach the tent of meeting, or else they will bear their sin and die.

  • Deut 1:6
    68%

    6Events at Horeb The LORD our God spoke to us at Horeb and said,“You have stayed in the area of this mountain long enough.

  • Deut 1:43
    68%

    43I spoke to you, but you did not listen. Instead you rebelled against the LORD and recklessly went up to the hill country.

  • Josh 22:18
    68%

    18Now today you dare to turn back from following the LORD! You are rebelling today against the LORD; tomorrow he may break out in anger against the entire community of Israel.