Hebrews 12:18

Webster's Bible (1833)

For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, tempest,

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  • Deut 4:11 : 11 You came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire to the heart of the sky, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.
  • Exod 20:18 : 18 All the people perceived the thunderings, the lightnings, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking. When the people saw it, they trembled, and stayed at a distance.
  • Exod 24:17 : 17 The appearance of the glory of Yahweh was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel.
  • Exod 19:12-22 : 12 You shall set bounds to the people round about, saying, 'Be careful that you don't go up onto the mountain, or touch its border. Whoever touches the mountain shall be surely put to death. 13 No hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot through; whether it is animal or man, he shall not live.' When the trumpet sounds long, they shall come up to the mountain." 14 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 by the third day. Don't have sexual relations with a woman." 16 It happened on the third day, when it was morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain, and the sound of an exceedingly loud trumpet; and all the people who were in the camp trembled. 17 Moses led the people out of the camp to meet God; and they stood at the lower part of the mountain. 18 Mount Sinai, the whole of it, smoked, because Yahweh descended on it in fire; and its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly. 19 When the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice. 20 Yahweh came down on Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain. Yahweh called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up. 21 Yahweh said to Moses, "Go down, charge the people, lest they break through to Yahweh to gaze, and many of them perish. 22 Let the priests also, who come near to Yahweh, sanctify themselves, lest Yahweh break forth on them."
  • Deut 5:22-26 : 22 These words Yahweh spoke to all your assembly on the mountain out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. He wrote them on two tables of stone, and gave them to me. 23 It happened, when you heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, that you came near to me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders; 24 and you said, Behold, Yahweh 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 speak with man, and he lives. 25 Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of Yahweh our God any more, then we shall die. 26 For 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?
  • Rom 6:14 : 14 For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.
  • Rom 8:15 : 15 For you didn't receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, "Abba{Abba is a Chaldee word for father or daddy, often used affectionately and respectfully in prayer to our Father in heaven.}! Father!"
  • 2 Cor 3:9 : 9 For if the service of condemnation has glory, the service of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.
  • 2 Tim 1:7 : 7 For God didn't give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 4:11-12
    2 verses
    81%

    11You came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire to the heart of the sky, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.

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

  • Heb 12:19-22
    4 verses
    79%

    19the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which those who heard it begged that not one more word should be spoken to them,

    20for they could not stand that which was commanded, "If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned{TR adds "or shot with an arrow" [see Exodus 19:12-13]};"

    21and so fearful was the appearance, that Moses said, "I am terrified and trembling."

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

  • Deut 5:22-23
    2 verses
    77%

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

    23It happened, when you heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, that you came near to me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;

  • Exod 20:18
    74%

    18All the people perceived the thunderings, the lightnings, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking. When the people saw it, they trembled, and stayed at a distance.

  • Exod 19:16-18
    3 verses
    74%

    16It happened on the third day, when it was morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain, and the sound of an exceedingly loud trumpet; and all the people who were in the camp trembled.

    17Moses led the people out of the camp to meet God; and they stood at the lower part of the mountain.

    18Mount Sinai, the whole of it, smoked, because Yahweh descended on it in fire; and its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly.

  • Heb 12:17
    74%

    17For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears.

  • Exod 19:12
    73%

    12You shall set bounds to the people round about, saying, 'Be careful that you don't go up onto the mountain, or touch its border. Whoever touches the mountain shall be surely put to death.

  • 2 Pet 1:18
    72%

    18This voice we heard come out of heaven when we were with him in the holy mountain.

  • Heb 12:25-29
    5 verses
    72%

    25See that you don't refuse him who speaks. For if they didn't escape when they refused him who warned on the Earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,

    26whose voice shook the earth, then, but now he has promised, saying, "Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heavens."

    27This phrase, "Yet once more," signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain.

    28Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can't be shaken, let us have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,

    29for our God is a consuming fire.

  • Deut 4:15
    72%

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

  • Exod 34:2-3
    2 verses
    72%

    2Be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to me on the top of the mountain.

    3No one shall come up with you; neither let anyone be seen throughout all the mountain; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mountain."

  • Ps 18:12
    71%

    12At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, Hailstones and coals of fire.

  • Deut 5:4-5
    2 verses
    71%

    4Yahweh spoke with you face to face on the mountain out of the midst of the fire,

    5(I stood between Yahweh and you at that time, to show you the word of Yahweh: for you were afraid because of the fire, and didn't go up onto the mountain;) saying,

  • Deut 4:36
    71%

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

  • Deut 18:16
    70%

    16according to all that you desired of Yahweh your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of Yahweh my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I not die.

  • Exod 20:21
    70%

    21The people stayed at a distance, and Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.

  • Heb 12:4-5
    2 verses
    70%

    4You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin;

    5and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, "My son, don't take lightly the chastening of the Lord, Nor faint when you are reproved by him;

  • Deut 9:8
    70%

    8Also in Horeb you provoked Yahweh to wrath, and Yahweh was angry with you to destroy you.

  • Exod 24:17-18
    2 verses
    70%

    17The appearance of the glory of Yahweh was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel.

    18Moses entered into the midst of the cloud, and went up on the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

  • Deut 9:15
    70%

    15So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.

  • Deut 9:22
    69%

    22At Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, you provoked Yahweh to wrath.

  • Exod 19:20
    69%

    20Yahweh came down on Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain. Yahweh called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.

  • Deut 1:33
    69%

    33who went before you in the way, to seek you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to show you by what way you should go, and in the cloud by day.

  • Heb 8:5
    69%

    5who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses was warned by God when he was about to make the tabernacle, for he said, "See, you shall make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain."

  • Exod 19:23-24
    2 verses
    69%

    23Moses said to Yahweh, "The people can't come up to Mount Sinai, for you charged us, saying, 'Set bounds around the mountain, and sanctify it.'"

    24Yahweh said to him, "Go down and you shall bring Aaron up with you, but don't let the priests and the people break through to come up to Yahweh, lest he break forth on them."

  • 2 Cor 3:13
    69%

    13and not as Moses, who put a veil on his face, that the children of Israel wouldn't look steadfastly on the end of that which was passing away.

  • Heb 10:27
    69%

    27but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries.

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

    11He said, Go forth, and stand on the mountain before Yahweh. Behold, Yahweh passed by, and a great and strong wind tore the mountains, and broke in pieces the rocks before Yahweh; but Yahweh was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but Yahweh was not in the earthquake:

    12and after the earthquake a fire; but Yahweh was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.

  • 2 Pet 2:17
    68%

    17These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.

  • Num 18:22
    68%

    22Henceforth the children of Israel shall not come near the tent of meeting, lest they bear sin, and die.

  • Deut 1:6
    68%

    6Yahweh our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying, You have lived long enough in this mountain:

  • Deut 1:43
    68%

    43So I spoke to you, and you didn't listen; but you rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh, and were presumptuous, and went up into the hill-country.

  • Josh 22:18
    68%

    18that you must turn away this day from following Yahweh? and it will be, seeing you rebel today against Yahweh, that tomorrow he will be angry with the whole congregation of Israel.