Hebrews 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 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 * intreated * 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.
