Hebrews 12:17-29 for you know that afterwards when he wished to inherit the blessing, he was rejected; for he found no way to change his father's mind, though he earnestly sought it with tears.

Thomson⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁷ for you know that afterwards when he wished to inherit the blessing, he was rejected; for he found no way to change his father's mind, though he earnestly sought it with tears. ¹⁸ For you are not come to a mountain which might be touched, and to blazing fire, and to gloom, and darkness, and a turbid tempest, ¹⁹ and to the sound of a trumpet, and a sound of words, the hearers of which entreated that the discourse might not be continued to them; ²⁰ for they could not bear this threat, "And if even a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned or pierced through with a dart." ²¹ And so awful was the appearance, that Moses said, "I am exceedingly terrified and tremble:" ²² but you are come to mount Sion, and to the city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels ²³ to the general assembly and congregation of first born, enrolled in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, ²⁴ and to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling which speaketh better things than that of Abel. ²⁵ See that you do not reject him who speaketh. For if they did not escape who rejected him who gave forth oracles on earth, how much less shall we who reject him who is from heaven, ²⁶ whose voice then shook the earth, but he hath now announced, saying, "Yet once more I shake not only the earth but the heaven also." ²⁷ Now this expression, "Yet once more" signifieth the removal of the things shaken, as having been made, that the things which are immoveable may remain. ²⁸ As we have therefore received a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have gratitude by which we may serve God acceptably, with reverence and holy awe: ²⁹ for our God is a consuming fire.