Hebrews 12:29

2 Thessalonians 1:8; Daniel 7:9; Deuteronomy 4:24; Deuteronomy 9:3; Exodus 24:17; Hebrews 10:27; Isaiah 66:15; Numbers 11:1; Numbers 16:35; Psalms 50:3; Psalms 97:3

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For our God is a consuming fire - This is a further reason why we should serve God with profound reverence and unwavering fidelity. The quotation...
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. Th...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

consuming fire . From Deuteronomy 4:24 . Compare Exodus 21:17 ; Psalms 50:3 ; Psalms 97:3 ; 2 Thessalonians 1:8 . &c. consuming . Greek....
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

29. For our God, etc. As he had before kindly set before us the grace of God, so he now makes known his severity; and he seems to have bo...
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 gr...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For our God is a consuming fire. For our God is a consuming fire - The apostle quotes Deuteronomy 4:24 , and by doing so he teaches us this great...
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...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For our God is a consuming fire. х Kai ( G2532 ) gar ( G1063 )] 'For even;' 'For also:' an additional incentive to diligence. From D...
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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

A consuming fire ] cp. Deuteronomy 4:24 . A solemn wraning against presumption.
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...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

A quotation from Deuteronomy 4:24 . There these words follow a solemn warning against idolatry. This passage then belongs to the same class as Hebr...
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...
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 deat...
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...
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: (2...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

REFLECTIONS READER hear what God the Spirit saith to the Churches! Behold, what animating prospects are opened to New Testament saints, in the conte...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For our God is a consuming fire. Either God personally considered, God in the person of Christ; so the Shechinah, with the Jews, is called a consum...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

For our God is a consuming fire. Ver. 29. A consuming fire ] viz. To profligate professors, ungirt Christians, Isaiah 33:14 . And whereas the...
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 (frequen...
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 responsibil...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The motive enforcing this duty is no less terrible than that given to Israel under the law, obliging their obedience to that covenant dispensation,...
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, f...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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Sermon Bible Commentary

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Sermon Bible Commentary

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Sermon Bible Commentary

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Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

l, 2. Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so ea...
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...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The need of reverence and godly fear:
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

for our God is a consuming fire. On the basis of the truths brought out in the last paragraph, of the fact that the Gospel with the fullness of Go...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

For our God is a consuming fire — in the strictness of his justice, and purity of his holiness.

²⁹ For our God is a consuming fire.

Related Commentaries of Hebrews 12:29

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Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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