012:017 For you know that even afterwards, when he wished to secure the blessing, he was rejected; for he found no opportunity for undoing what he had done, though he sought the blessing earnestly with tears.
012:018 For you have not come to a material object all ablaze with fire, and to gloom and darkness and storm and trumpet-blast and the sound of words—
012:019 a sound of such a kind that those who heard it entreated that no more should be added.
012:020 For they could not endure the order which had been given, "Even a wild beast, if it touches the mountain, shall be stoned to death;"
012:021 and so terrible was the scene that Moses said, "I tremble with fear."
012:022 On the contrary you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city
of the ever-living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to countless
hosts of angels,
012:023 to the great festal gathering and Church of the first-born,
whose names are recorded in Heaven, and to a Judge who is God
of all, and to the spirits of righteous men made perfect,
012:024 and to Jesus the negotiator of a new Covenant, and to the sprinkled blood which speaks in more gracious tones than that of Abel.
012:025 Be careful not to refuse to listen to Him who is speaking to you. For if they of old did not escape unpunished when they refused to listen to him who spoke on earth, much less shall we escape who turn a deaf ear to Him who now speaks from Heaven.
012:026 His voice then shook the earth, but now we have His promise,
"Yet again I will, once for all, cause not only the earth
to tremble, but Heaven also."