Hebrews:12

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* So therefore we also , having so great cloud of witnesses lying around us , having laid aside every weight and the easily surrounding sin , through patience let us also run the race set before us , * looking to the Author and Finisher of our faith , Jesus , who for the joy set before Him endured the cross , despising the shame , "and sat down at the right " of the throne of God . Psa . strkjv @110:1 * For consider Him who had endured such gainsaying of sinners against Himself , that you do not grow weary , fainting in your souls . * You did not yet resist unto blood , wrestling against sin . * And you have forgotten the exhortation which He speaks with you , as with sons , "My sons , do not despise the chastening of the Lord , nor faint while being corrected by Him . * For whom the Lord loves , He disciplines , and whips every son whom He receives ." Proverbs . strkjv @3:11 , 12 * If you endure discipline , God is dealing with you as with sons ; for who is the son whom a father does not discipline ? * But if you are without discipline , of which all have become sharers , then you are bastards , and not sons . * Furthermore , indeed we have had fathers of our flesh as correctors , and we respected them . Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits , and we shall live ? * For they truly disciplined us for a few days according to the thing seeming good to them ; but He for our profit , in order for us to partake of His holiness . * And all discipline for the present indeed does not seem to be joyous , but grievous ; but afterward it gives back peaceable fruit of righteousness to the ones having been exercised by it . * Because of this , "straighten the hands " hanging alongside , "and the enfeebled knees ;" * "and make straight tracks for your feet ," that the lame not be turned aside , but rather healed . Isaiah . strkjv @35:3 ; Proverbs . strkjv @4:26 * Eagerly pursue peace and holiness with all , without which no one will see the Lord , * watching diligently that not any lack from the grace of God , that "no root of bitterness growing up " may crowd "in on you ", and through this many be defiled ; Deuteronomy . strkjv @29:18 * that not any fornicator , or profane one , as Esau , who for one feeding gave up his birthright ; * for you know also that afterwards desiring to inherit the blessing , he was rejected , for he found no place of repentance , although seeking it with tears . Genesis . strkjv @27:36-39 * For you have not drawn near to the mountain being touched , and having been lit with fire , and to gloom , and darkness , and tempest , * and to a sound of trumpet , and to a voice of words , which those hearing begged that not a word be added to them ; * for they could not bear the thing enjoined : "Even " "if a beast " "touches the mountain , it will be stoned , or shot through " with a dart . Ex . strkjv @19:12 , 13 * And so fearful was the thing appearing , Moses said , "I am terrified and trembling ." Deuteronomy . strkjv @9:19 * But you have drawn near Mount Zion , even the city of the living God , to a heavenly Jerusalem , and to myriads of angels , * and to an assembly , a church of the first-born ones having been enrolled in Heaven ; and to God the judge of all , and to spirits of just ones who have been perfected ; * and to Jesus the Mediator of a new covenant , and to blood of sprinkling speaking better things than that of Abel . * Watch that you do not refuse the One speaking ; for if these did not escape who refused Him who divinely warned them on earth , much rather we , those turning away from Heaven ; * whose voice shook the earth then , but now He has promised , saying , "Yet once " "I will shake not only the earth , but also the heavens ." Haggai . strkjv @2:6 * Now the words "Yet once " make clear the removal of the things being shaken , as having been made , so that the things not being shaken may remain . * For this reason , receiving an unshakable kingdom , let us have grace , by which we may serve God pleasingly , with reverence and awe ; * for also , Our God is a consuming fire ." Deuteronomy . strkjv @4:24

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