Hebrews:12:1-13

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* Since , then , we have so great a cloud of witnesses placed before us , laying aside every encumbrance , and the sin which easily entangles us , let us run , with perseverance , the race set before us ; * looking to Jesus , the leader and perfecter of the faith ; who , for the joy that was set before him , endured the cross , despising the shame , and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God . * Consider him who , from sinners , endured such opposition against himself , lest , becoming discouraged in your minds , you grow weary ; * you have not yet resisted to blood , struggling against this sin . * «Besides , have you forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children ,» 'My son , do not think lightly of the Lord 's chastisement , neither faint when you are rebuked by him :' * «for whom the Lord loves he chastises , and scourges every son whom he receives .» * If you endure chastisement , God deals with you as his children . For what son is there whom his father does not chastise ? * But if you be without chastisement , of which all sons are partakers , certainly you are bastards , and not sons . * Farther , we have had fathers of our flesh , who chastised us , and we gave them reverence : shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of our spirits , and live ? * For they , indeed , during a very few days , chastised us according to their pleasure ; but he , for our advantage , that we might be partakers of his holiness . * Now , no chastisement , indeed , for the present , seems to be matter of joy , but of sorrow . Nevertheless , afterward it returns the peaceful fruit of righteousness to them who are trained by it . * Wherefore , bring to their right position , the arms that hang down , and the weakened knees . * And make smooth paths for your feet , that that which is lame , may not be put out of joint , but that it may rather be healed .

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