Hebrews 12 - Revised Standard Version Old Tradition 1952(RSV-C)

1Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us,

2 of the first-born who are enrolled in heaven, and to a judge who is God of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,

24Gen 4.10. and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks more graciously than the blood of Abel.

25 Ex 20.19. See that you do not refuse him who is speaking. For if they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less shall we escape if we reject him who warns from heaven.

26Hag 2.6. His voice then shook the earth; but now he has promised, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heaven.”

27This phrase, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of what is shaken, as of what has been made, in order that what cannot be shaken may remain.

28Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe;

29Deut 4.24. for our God is a consuming fire.