Hebrews:12

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* Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses , (note :)An applying of the former examples , by which we ought to be stirred up to run the whole race , casting away all hindrances and impediments .(:note ) let us lay aside every weight , and the sin which For sin besieges us on all sides , so that we cannot escape . doth so easily beset [us ], and let us run with patience the race that is set before us , * * * * * For whom the Lord loueth , he chasteneth : and he scourgeth euery sonne that he receiueth : * If ye endure chastening , God offereth him selfe vnto you as vnto sonnes : for what sonne is it whom the father chasteneth not ? * If therefore ye be without correction , whereof al are partakers , then are ye bastards , and not sonnes . * * * Now no chastising for the present seemeth to be ioyous , but , grieuous : but afterwarde , it bringeth the quiet fruite of righteousnesse , vnto them which are thereby exercised . * * And make (note :)Keep a right course , and so , that you show examples of good life for others to follow .(:note ) straight paths for your feet , lest that which is lame be turned out of the way ; but let it rather be healed . * * * * For ye know how that afterward , when he would have inherited the blessing , he was rejected : for he found no (note :)There was no room left for his repentance : and it appears by the effects , what his repentance really was , for when he left his father 's presence , he threatened to kill his brother .(:note ) place of repentance , though he sought it carefully with tears . * * Neither vnto the sounde of a trumpet , and the voyce of wordes , which they that heard it , excused themselues , that the word should not be spoken to them any more , * (For they were not able to abide that which was commaunded , yea , though a beast touche the mountaine , it shalbe stoned , or thrust through with a dart : * And so terrible was the (note :)The shape and form which he saw , which was no counterfeit and forged shape , but a true one .(:note ) sight , [that ] Moses said , I exceedingly fear and quake :) * But ye are come vnto the mount Sion , and to the citie of the liuing God , the celestiall Hierusalem , and to ye company of innumerable Angels , * 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 (note :)So he calls them that are taken up to heaven , although one part of them sleeps in the earth .(:note ) perfect , * And to Iesus the Mediatour of the new Testament , and to the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better things then that of Abel . * * * And this worde , Yet once more , signifieth the remouing of those things which are shaken , as of things which are made with hands , that the things which are not shaken , may remaine . * * For euen our God is a consuming fire .

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