Hebrews 12:28 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

• Hebrews 12:28 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved - We who are Christians. We pertain to a kingdom that is permanent and unchanging. The meaning is, that the kingdom of the Redeemer is never...

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• Hebrews 12:28 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (15) Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with (m) reverence and godly (n) fear: (15) A general exhortation to live reverent...

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• Hebrews 12:28 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The theme of the epistle has been the contrast of the old and the new covenants, and this contrast is now summed up in a splendid closing passage. The first covenant was established on a mount that m...

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• Hebrews 12:28 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  which cannot be moved . immovable. Greek. asaleutos. Only here and Acts 27:41 . whereby . by (Greek. dia . App-104. Hebrews 12:1 ; Hebrews 12:1 ) which. serve . Greek. latreuo. App-190....

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• Hebrews 12:28 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 2341 GOD TO BE SERVED WITH REVERENTIAL FEAR Hebrews 12:28-29 . Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reve...

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• Hebrews 12:28 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: We receiving a kingdom - The Gospel dispensation, frequen...

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• Hebrews 12:28 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Wherefore, we receiving a kingdom, &c.— "As therefore we have received such an unshaken kingdom, which shall never be removed to make way for any different establishment, and which gives to t...

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• Hebrews 12:28 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: Receiving - as we do, in sure hope, also in posse...

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• Hebrews 12:28 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Contest. Endurance, Holiness, and Divine Communion proposed to the Sons of God Inspired by the example of those victorious heroes of faith who now encompass us, we ought to run our race patien...

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• Hebrews 12:28 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  (18-29) The exhortation to faithfulness is most impressively enforced by means of a comparison between the earlier revelation and that which is given in Christ. The mount that might be touched. —...

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• Hebrews 12:28 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER XV. MOUNT ZION. "For ye are not come unto a mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, and the sound of a trumpet, and the voic...

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• Hebrews 12:28 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Hearken to God's Latest Word Hebrews 12:18-29 Sinai rocked with earthquake and burned with fire. None might touch it without incurring the death penalty. How much better our Christian heritage!...

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• Hebrews 12:28 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  After this rapid survey of the past, the writer makes his great appeal. It is that we "consider Him" who is "the Author and Perfecter of faith." The final appeals of the Epistle fall into four secti...

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• Hebrews 12:28 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (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. In relation t...

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• Hebrews 12:28 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved ,.... Not the kingdom of glory; eternal glory is a kingdom, and it is an immovable one; and is a free gift of God, and may be said to be now re...

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• Hebrews 12:28 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: Ver. 28. A kingdom which cannot be moved ] As the mig...

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• Hebrews 12:28 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Wherefore we Who believe in Christ; receiving Or having received , through the gospel; a kingdom which cannot be moved A dispensation (frequently called the kingdom of God) which shall never b...

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• Hebrews 12:28 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  How rightly now Chapter 12 admonishes the saints of God to act by faith; for where faith is in godly exer\-cise, every honorable and true responsibility will be willingly assumed, with the confidence...

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• Hebrews 12:28 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Nature of the Christian Economy. A. D.  62.       18 For ye are not come unto the mount that might...

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• Hebrews 12:28 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved: in this verse the apostle follows his doctrine with counsel to several duties; such as concern the first table, and terminate on God, in this...

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• Hebrews 12:28 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  ‘Wherefore, receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, may we have grace, whereby we may offer service well-pleasing to God with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire.' At Sinai Israel...

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• Hebrews 12:28 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES Hebrews 12:29 . Consuming fire. — Deuteronomy 4:24 . Not intended as in any sense a description of God, but “an anthropomorphic way of expressing His hatred of apo...

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• Hebrews 12:28 - Scofield Reference Notes

  grace Grace (imparted). ( Hebrews 12:15 ); ( Hebrews 12:28 ); ( Hebrews 13:9 ); ( Romans 6:1 ); ( 2 Peter 3:18 ).

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• Hebrews 12:28 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Hebrews 12:18-29 Mount Sinai and Mount Zion. In this passage are mentioned seven great and solemn heavenly realities. I. Mount Zion. Mount Sinai represents the law. It manifests the majesty of G...

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• Hebrews 12:28 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  After giving a long list of the heroes of faith, the apostle adds: Hebrews 12:1-3 . Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight,...

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• Hebrews 12:28 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Hebrews 12:1 . Wherefore, seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses. Confessors and martyrs of the ancient church are here supposed to be the spectators of our course,...

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• Hebrews 12:28 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION The exhortation, begun at Hebrews 10:19 , but interrupted at Hebrews 11:1-58 . I by the chapter on faith, is now taken up again with increased force from the array of examples that...

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• Hebrews 12:28 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The need of reverence and godly fear:

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• Hebrews 12:28 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Peter 1:17 ; 1 Peter 1:4 ; 1 Peter 1:5 ; 1 Peter 2:20 ; 1 Peter 2:5 ; Daniel 2:44 ; Daniel 7:14 ; Daniel 7:27 ; Ephesians 1:6 ; Ephesians 5:10 ; Hebrews 10:19 ; Hebrews 10:22 ; Hebrews...

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• Hebrews 12:28 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Therefore let us, receiving — By willing and joyful faith. A kingdom — More glorious than the present heaven and earth. Hold fast the grace, whereby we may serve God — In every thought, word, and w...

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