Hebrews:12:1-15

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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 , * 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 . * For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself , lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds . * Ye have not yet resisted unto blood , striving against sin . * 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 : * For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth , and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth . * If ye endure chastening , God dealeth with you as with sons ; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not ? * But if ye be without chastisement , whereof all are partakers , then are ye bastards , and not sons . * 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 ? * 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 . * 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 . * Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down , and the feeble knees ; * And make straight paths for your feet , lest that which is lame be turned out of the way ; but let it rather be healed . * Follow peace with all men , and holiness , without which no man shall see the Lord : * 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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