Hebrews 12:21-24
J.B. Phillips New Testament
Your experience is not that of the old agreement but of the new
18-21 You have not had to approach things which your senses could experience as they did in the old days—flaming fire, black darkness, rushing wind and out of it a trumpet-blast, a voice speaking human words. So terrible was that voice that those who heard it begged and prayed that it might stop speaking, for what it had already commanded was more than they could bear—‘And if so much as a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned or thrust through with an arrow’. So fearful was the spectacle that Moses cried out, ‘I am exceedingly afraid and trembling’.
22-24 No, you have been allowed to approach the true Mount Zion, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have drawn near to the countless angelic army, the great assembly of Heaven and the Church of the first-born whose names are written above. You have drawn near to God, the judge of all, to the souls of good men made perfect, and to Jesus, mediator of a new agreement, to the cleansing of blood which tells a better story than the age-old sacrifice of Abel.
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Hebrews 12:21-23
New International Version
21 The sight was so terrifying that Moses said, “I am trembling with fear.”[a](A)
22 But you have come to Mount Zion,(B) to the city(C) of the living God,(D) the heavenly Jerusalem.(E) You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly, 23 to the church of the firstborn,(F) whose names are written in heaven.(G) You have come to God, the Judge of all,(H) to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,(I)
Footnotes
- Hebrews 12:21 See Deut. 9:19.
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