29For our God is a consuming fire.
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For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.
Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God is he which goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD hath said unto thee.
For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 18-29)Here the apostle goes on to engage the professing Hebrews to perseverance in their Christian course and conflict, and not to relapse again into Judaism. This he does by showing them how much the state of the gospel church differs from that of the Jewish church, and how much it resembles the state of the church in heaven, and on both accounts demands and deserves our diligence, patience, and persev…
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