Hebrews:12
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Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses ,
let us lay aside every weight ,
and the sin which doth so easily beset us ,
and let us run with patience the race that is set before us ,
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Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith ;
who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross ,
despising the shame ,
and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God .
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For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself ,
lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds .
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Ye have not yet resisted unto blood ,
striving against sin .
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And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children ,
My son ,
despise not thou the chastening of the Lord ,
nor faint when thou art rebuked of him :
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For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth ,
and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth .
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If ye endure chastening ,
God dealeth with you as with sons ;
for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not ?
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But if ye be without chastisement ,
whereof all are partakers ,
then are ye bastards ,
and not sons .
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Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us ,
and we gave them reverence :
shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits ,
and live ?
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For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure ;
but he for our profit ,
that we might be partakers of his holiness .
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Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous ,
but grievous :
nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby .
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Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down ,
and the feeble knees ;
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And make straight paths for your feet ,
lest that which is lame be turned out of the way ;
but let it rather be healed .
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Follow peace with all men ,
and holiness ,
without which no man shall see the Lord :
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Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God ;
lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you ,
and thereby many be defiled ;
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Lest there be any fornicator ,
or profane person ,
as Esau ,
who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright .
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For ye know how that afterward ,
when he would have inherited the blessing ,
he was rejected :
for he found no place of repentance ,
though he sought it carefully with tears .
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For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched ,
and that burned with fire ,
nor unto blackness ,
and darkness ,
and tempest ,
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And the sound of a trumpet ,
and the voice of words ;
which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more :
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For they could not endure that which was commanded ,
And if so much as a beast touch the mountain ,
it shall be stoned ,
or thrust through with a dart :
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And so terrible was the sight ,
that Moses said ,
I exceedingly fear and quake :)
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But ye are come unto mount Sion ,
and unto the city of the living God ,
the heavenly Jerusalem ,
and to an innumerable company of angels ,
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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 perfect ,
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And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant ,
and to the blood of sprinkling ,
that speaketh better things than that of Abel .
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See that ye refuse not him that speaketh .
For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth ,
much more shall not we escape ,
if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven :
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Whose voice then shook the earth :
but now he hath promised ,
saying ,
Yet once more I shake not the earth only ,
but also heaven .
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And this word ,
Yet once more ,
signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken ,
as of things that are made ,
that those things which cannot be shaken may remain .
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Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved ,
let us have grace ,
whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear :
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For our God is a consuming fire .