riversident - Hebrews:12:1-13

riversident@Hebrews:12:1 @ THEREFORE, surrounded as we are by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and the sin that so easily besets us, and let us run with patience the race that lies before us,

riversident@Hebrews:12:2 @ looking to Jesus the beginner and finisher of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured a cross, thinking little of the shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God.

riversident@Hebrews:12:3 @ Think of him who endured such hostile speaking of sinners against him, that you may not grow weary and despondent in heart.

riversident@Hebrews:12:4 @ You have not yet resisted to blood in the contest against sin,

riversident@Hebrews:12:5 @ and you have forgotten the encouragement which reasons with you as with sons, "My son, do not think slightingly of the discipline of the Lord and be not faint-hearted when reproved by him:

riversident@Hebrews:12:6 @ for whom the Lord loves he disciplines and scourges every son whom he receives as his own."

riversident@Hebrews:12:7 @ It is for discipline that you are enduring. God is laying it upon you as upon sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

riversident@Hebrews:12:8 @ But if you are without discipline, in which all share, then you are bastards and not sons.

riversident@Hebrews:12:9 @ Besides, we had fathers of our flesh who disciplined us and we used to reverence them. Shall we not much more be submissive to the Father of our spirits and live?

riversident@Hebrews:12:10 @ For they for a few days disciplined us as seemed good to them, but he for our profit, that we may share his holiness.

riversident@Hebrews:12:11 @ All discipline for the time being seems not joyous but grievous, but afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have passed through its training.

riversident@Hebrews:12:12 @ So raise the relaxed hands and straighten the unstrung knees

riversident@Hebrews:12:13 @ and make straight paths for your feet, so that the lame limb may not be put out of joint but rather cured.