²⁵ Watch out that you do not refuse the one who is speaking! For if those did not escape when they^[a] refused the one who warned them on earth, much less will we escape,^[b] if we^[c] reject the one who warns from heaven, ²⁶ whose voice shook the earth at that time, but now he has promised, saying,

²⁷ Now the phrase “yet once more” indicates the removal of what is shaken, namely, things that have been created, in order that the things that are not shaken may remain. ²⁸ Therefore, since we^[e] are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us be thankful, through which let us serve God acceptably, with awe and reverence. ²⁹ For indeed our God is a consuming fire.