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14 你们要竭力寻求与众人和睦,并且要竭力追求圣洁。如果没有圣洁,谁也不能见主。 15 你们要小心,免得有人失去了 神的恩典;免得有苦根长起来缠绕你们,因而污染了许多人; 16 又免得有人成为淫乱的和贪恋世俗的,好象以扫一样,为了一点点食物,竟把自己长子的名分出卖了。 17 你们知道,后来以扫想要承受祝福,却被拒绝了;他虽然带着眼泪寻求,还是没有反悔的余地。

不可违背那警戒人的 神

18 你们不是来到那座摸得着的山。那里有烈火、密云、幽暗、暴风、 19 号筒的响声和说话的声音;那些听见这声音的人,都请求 神不要再向他们多说话; 20 因为他们担当不起那命令:“就是走兽挨近这山,也要用石头把牠打死。” 21 当时,显出的景象是那么可怕,连摩西也说:“我非常恐惧战兢。” 22 你们却是来到锡安山和永活的 神的城,就是天上的耶路撒冷;在那里有千万的天使聚集, 23 有名字登记在天上众长子的教会,有审判众人的 神,有被成全的义人的灵魂, 24 有新约的中保耶稣,还有他所洒的血。这血所传的信息比亚伯的血所传的更美。

25 你们要谨慎,不要弃绝那位说话的,因为从前的人弃绝了那位在地上警戒他们的,尚且不能逃罪;何况现在我们背弃那位从天上警戒我们的呢? 26 当时他的声音震动了地;现在他却应许说:“下一次,我不但要震动地,还要震动天。” 27 “下一次”这句话,是表明那些被震动的,要像被造之物那样被除去,好使那些不能震动的可以留存, 28 因此,我们既然领受了不能震动的国,就应该感恩,照着 神所喜悦的,用虔诚敬畏的心事奉他; 29 因为我们的 神是烈火。

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Warning and Encouragement

14 Make every effort to live in peace with everyone(A) and to be holy;(B) without holiness no one will see the Lord.(C) 15 See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God(D) and that no bitter root(E) grows up to cause trouble and defile many. 16 See that no one is sexually immoral,(F) or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his inheritance rights as the oldest son.(G) 17 Afterward, as you know, when he wanted to inherit this blessing, he was rejected. Even though he sought the blessing with tears,(H) he could not change what he had done.

The Mountain of Fear and the Mountain of Joy

18 You have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire; to darkness, gloom and storm;(I) 19 to a trumpet blast(J) or to such a voice speaking words(K) that those who heard it begged that no further word be spoken to them,(L) 20 because they could not bear what was commanded: “If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned to death.”[a](M) 21 The sight was so terrifying that Moses said, “I am trembling with fear.”[b](N)

22 But you have come to Mount Zion,(O) to the city(P) of the living God,(Q) the heavenly Jerusalem.(R) You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly, 23 to the church of the firstborn,(S) whose names are written in heaven.(T) You have come to God, the Judge of all,(U) to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,(V) 24 to Jesus the mediator(W) of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood(X) that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.(Y)

25 See to it that you do not refuse(Z) him who speaks.(AA) If they did not escape when they refused him who warned(AB) them on earth, how much less will we, if we turn away from him who warns us from heaven?(AC) 26 At that time his voice shook the earth,(AD) but now he has promised, “Once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens.”[c](AE) 27 The words “once more” indicate the removing of what can be shaken(AF)—that is, created things—so that what cannot be shaken may remain.

28 Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken,(AG) let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe,(AH) 29 for our “God is a consuming fire.”[d](AI)

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 12:20 Exodus 19:12,13
  2. Hebrews 12:21 See Deut. 9:19.
  3. Hebrews 12:26 Haggai 2:6
  4. Hebrews 12:29 Deut. 4:24

14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:

15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;

16 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.

17 For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.

18 For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,

19 And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:

20 (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:

21 And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)

22 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,

23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,

24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.

25 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:

26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.

27 And 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.

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

29 For our God is a consuming fire.

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