but with godly fear and awe, for our God is indeed a consuming fire.
nothing but an awful outlook of doom, of that burning Wrath which will consume the foes of God.
in flaming fire, to inflict punishment on those who ignore God, even on those who refuse obedience to the gospel of our Lord Jesus,
If I 'appeal to the interests of men,' then, it is with the fear of the Lord before my mind. What I am is plain to God without disguise, plain also, I trust, to your own conscience.
and repay you who are troubled (as well as us) with rest and relief, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven together with the angels of his power
It is an awful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
but the present heavens and earth are treasured up by the same word for fire, reserved for the day when the impious are doomed and destroyed.