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HEBREWS ยท Chapter 12
12:1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud
of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which does so
easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before
us,
12:2 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.
12:3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against
himself, lest all of you be wearied and faint in your minds.
12:4 All of you have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against
sin.
12:5 And all of you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks unto
you as unto children, My son, despise not you the chastening of the Lord,
nor faint when you are rebuked of him:
12:6 For whom the Lord loves he chastens, and scourges every son whom
he receives.
12:7 If all of you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons;
for what son is he whom the father chastens not?
12:8 But if all of you be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers,
then are all of you bastards, and not sons.
12:9 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?
12:10 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.
12:11 Now no chastening for the present seems to be joyous, but grievous:
nevertheless afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto
them which are exercised thereby.
12:12 Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
12:13 And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame
be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.
12:14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man
shall see the Lord:
12:15 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;
12:16 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who
for one morsel of food sold his birthright.
12:17 For all of you 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.
12:18 For all of you are not come unto the mount that might be touched,
and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
12:19 And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words;
which voice they that heard implored that the word should not
be spoken to them any more:
12:20 (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:
12:21 And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly
fear and quake:)
12:22 But all of you are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of
the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of
angels,
12:23 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,
12:24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood
of sprinkling, that speaks better things that that of Abel.
12:25 See that all of you refuse not him that speaks. For if they escaped
not who refused him that spoke on earth, much more shall not we escape,
if we turn away from him that speaks from heaven:
12:26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he has promised, saying,
Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
12:27 And this word, Yet once more, signifies the removing of those
things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which
cannot be shaken may remain.
12:28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us
have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly
fear:
12:29 For our God is a consuming fire.
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