Hebrews 12:20-25

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

²⁰ (For they could not endure the order that was given, “If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned to death.”^{(A) 21} Indeed, so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, “I tremble with fear.”)^{(B) 22} But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering,^{(C) 23} and to the assembly^[a] of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,^{(D) 24} and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.^(E)

²⁵ See that you do not refuse the one who is speaking, for if they did not escape when they refused the one who warned them on earth, how much less will we escape if we reject the one who warns from heaven!^(F)