Hebrews 12
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1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so
great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which
doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is
set before us, 2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our
faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the
shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 For
consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye
be wearied and faint in your minds.
4 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against
sin. 5 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you
as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint
when thou art rebuked of him: 6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth,
and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. 7 If ye endure chastening,
God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth
not? 8 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers,
then are ye bastards, and not sons. 9 Furthermore we have had fathers
of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall
we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? 10 For
they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he
for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness. 11 Now
no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless
afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are
exercised thereby. 12 Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and
the feeble knees; 13 And make straight paths for your feet, lest that
which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed. 14 Follow
peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the
Lord: 15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God;
lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be
defiled; 16 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as
Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. 17 For ye know
how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected:
for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
18 For ye are not come unto the mount that might be
touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and
tempest, 19 And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice
they that heard entreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more: 20 (For
they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch
the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart: 21 And
so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and
quake:) 22 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the
living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, 23 To
the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written 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 the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that
speaketh better things than that of Abel. 25 See that ye refuse
not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on
earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him
that speaketh from heaven: 26 Whose voice then shook the earth:
but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but
also heaven. 27 And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the
removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those
things which cannot be shaken may remain. 28 Wherefore we receiving a
kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God
acceptably with reverence and godly fear: 29 For our God is a
consuming fire.
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