^{24 Ref} and to a mediator of a new covenant -- Jesus, and to blood of sprinkling, speaking better things than that of Abel!

^{25 Ref} See, may ye not refuse him who is speaking, for if those did not escape who refused him who upon earth was divinely speaking -- much less we who do turn away from him who `speaketh' from heaven,

^{26 Ref} whose voice the earth shook then, and now hath he promised, saying, `Yet once -- I shake not only the earth, but also the heaven;'

^{27 Ref} and this -- `Yet once' -- doth make evident the removal of the things shaken, as of things having been made, that the things not shaken may remain;

^{28 Ref} wherefore, a kingdom that cannot be shaken receiving, may we have grace, through which we may serve God well-pleasingly, with reverence and religious fear;

^{29 Ref} for also our God `is' a consuming fire.