Hebrews:12

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* Therefore , since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses , let us also lay aside every weight , and the sin which so easily entangles us , and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us , * fixing our eyes on Jesus , the author and perfecter of our 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 endured from sinners such hostility against himself , so that you may not grow weary and lose heart . * In your struggle against sin , you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood . * And have you forgotten the exhortation which addresses you as sons ? – tcent @Hebrews:12:6 " /> * It is for discipline that you endure . God is treating you as sons ; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline ? * If you are left without discipline , in which all have become partakers , then you are illegitimate children and not sons . * Besides this , we have had fathers of our flesh to discipline us and we respected them . Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live ? * For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them , but he disciplines us for our good , that we may share his holiness . * For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant ; but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it . * Therefore lift your feeble hands and strengthen your weak knees , * and make straight paths for your feet , so that what is lame may not be put out of joint , but rather be healed . * Strive for peace with all men , and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord . * See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God ; that no root of bitterness spring up and cause trouble , and by it many become defiled ; * that no one be immoral or godless like Esau , who sold his own birthright for a single meal . * For you know that afterward , when he desired to inherit the blessing , he was rejected , for he found no place for repentance , though he sought it diligently with tears . * For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched and to a blazing fire , and to darkness and gloom and whirlwind , * and the blast of a trumpet , and the sound of a voice whose words made the hearers beg that no further word be spoken to them . * For they could not endure the order that was given , »If even a beast touches the mountain , it shall be stoned .« * The sight was so terrifying that Moses said , »I am trembling with fear .« * But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God , the heavenly Jerusalem , and to myriads of angels , to the joyful assembly * and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven , and to God , the Judge of all , and to the spirits of righteous men made perfect , * and to Jesus , the mediator of a new covenant , and to the sprinkled blood that speaks better than the blood of Abel . * See to it that you do not refuse him who is speaking . For if they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth , how much less shall we escape , if we turn away from him who warns us from heaven ? * Then his voice shook the earth , but now he has promised , »Yet once more I will shake not only the earth , but also heaven .« * This phrase , »Yet once more ,« indicates the removing of those things which can be shaken , as of created things , in order that what cannot be shaken may remain . * Therefore , since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken , let us be thankful , and offer to God acceptable worship with reverence and awe , * for our God is a consuming fire .

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