Hebrews:12

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* Let us also therefore , having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us , laying aside every weight , and sin which so easily entangles us , run with endurance the race that lies before us , * looking stedfastly on Jesus the leader and completer of faith : who , in view of the joy lying before him , endured [the ] cross , having despised [the ] shame , and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God . * For consider well him who endured so great contradiction from sinners against himself , that ye be not weary , fainting in your minds . * Ye have not yet resisted unto blood , wrestling against sin . * And ye have quite forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons : My son , despise not [the ] chastening of [the ] Lord , nor faint [when ] reproved by him ; * for whom [the ] Lord loves he chastens , and scourges every son whom he receives . * Ye endure for chastening , God conducts himself towards you as towards sons ; for who is the son that the father chastens not ? * But if ye are without chastening , of which all have been made partakers , then are ye bastards , and not sons . * Moreover we have had the fathers of our flesh as chasteners , and we reverenced [them ]; shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits , and live ? * For they indeed chastened for a few days , as seemed good to them ; but he for profit , in order to the partaking of his holiness . * But no chastening at the time seems to be [matter ] of joy , but of grief ; but afterwards yields [the ] peaceful fruit of righteousness to those exercised by it . * Wherefore lift up the hands that hang down , and the failing knees ; * and make straight paths for your feet , that that which is lame be not turned aside ; but that rather it may be healed . * Pursue peace with all , and holiness , without which no one shall see the Lord : * watching lest [there be ] any one who lacks the grace of God ; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble [you ], and many be defiled by it ; * lest [there be ] any fornicator , or profane person , as Esau , who for one meal sold his birthright ; * for ye know that also afterwards , desiring to inherit the blessing , he was rejected , (for he found no place for repentance ) although he sought it earnestly with tears . * For ye have not come to [the mount ] that might be touched and was all on fire , and to obscurity , and darkness , and tempest , * and trumpet 's sound , and voice of words ; which they that heard , excusing themselves , declined [the ] word being addressed to them any more : * (for they were not able to bear what was enjoined : And if a beast should touch the mountain , it shall be stoned ; * and , so fearful was the sight , Moses said , I am exceedingly afraid and full of trembling ;) * but ye have come to mount Zion ; and to [the ] city of [the ] living God , heavenly Jerusalem ; and to myriads of angels , * the universal gathering ; and to [the ] assembly of the firstborn [who are ] registered in heaven ; and to God , judge of all ; and to [the ] spirits of just [men ] made perfect ; * and to Jesus , mediator of a new covenant ; and to [the ] blood of sprinkling , speaking better than Abel . * See that ye refuse not him that speaks . For if those did not escape who had refused him who uttered the oracles on earth , much more we who turn away from him [who does so ] from heaven : * whose voice then shook the earth ; but now he has promised , saying , Yet once will I shake not only the earth , but also the heaven . * But this Yet once , signifies the removing of what is shaken , as being made , that what is not shaken may remain . * Wherefore let us , receiving a kingdom not to be shaken , have grace , by which let us serve God acceptably with reverence and fear . * For also our God [is ] a consuming fire .

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