Hebrews 12:29 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁹For our God is a consuming fire.

Hebrews 12:29 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 4:24
For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.
Deuteronomy 9:3
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.
Isaiah 66:15
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.
2 Thessalonians 1:8
In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
Hebrews 10:27
But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.

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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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 29)

29. Greek, “For even”: “for also”; introducing an additional solemn incentive to diligence. Quoted from De 4:24. our God--in whom we hope, is also to be feared. He is love (1Jo 4:8, 16); yet there is another side of His character; God has wrath against sin (He 10:27, 31).