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The Book of Hebrews, Chapter 12, Verse 28

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Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
King James Version
For our God [is] a consuming fire.
American Standard Version
for our God is a consuming fire.
New English Translation
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they keep watch over your souls and will give an account for their work. Let them do this with joy and not with complaints, for this would be no advantage for you.
World English Bible
Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can't be shaken, let us have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,
29
Let brotherly love continue.
1
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
2
Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; [and] them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.
3
Marriage [is] honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
4
[Let your] conversation [be] without covetousness; [and be] content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
5
So that we may boldly say, The Lord [is] my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.
6
Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of [their] conversation.
7
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
8
Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For [it is] a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
9
We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.