Hebrews 12
1 Furthermore, since we also have so great a cloud of witnesses over us, let us set aside every burden and sin which may surround us, and advance, through patience, to the struggle offered to us.
Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us,
2 Let us gaze upon Jesus, as the Author and the completion of our faith, who, having joy laid out before him, endured the cross, disregarding the shame, and who now sits at the right hand of the throne of God.
looking to the author and perfecter of faith — Jesus, who, over-against the joy set before him — did endure a cross, shame having despised, on the right hand also of the throne of God did sit down;
3 So then, meditate upon him who endured such adversity from sinners against himself, so that you may not become weary, failing in your souls.
for consider again him who endured such gainsaying from the sinners to himself, that ye may not be wearied in your souls — being faint.
4 For you have not yet resisted unto blood, while striving against sin.
Not yet unto blood did ye resist — with the sin striving;
5 And you have forgotten the consolation which speaks to you like sons, saying: “My son, do not be willing to neglect the discipline of the Lord. Neither should you become weary, while being rebuked by him.”
and ye have forgotten the exhortation that doth speak fully with you as with sons, 'My son, be not despising chastening of the Lord, nor be faint, being reproved by Him,
6 For whomever the Lord loves, he chastises. And every son whom he accepts, he scourges.
for whom the Lord doth love He doth chasten, and He scourgeth every son whom He receiveth;'
7 Persevere in discipline. God presents you to himself as sons. But what son is there, whom his father does not correct?
if chastening ye endure, as to sons God beareth Himself to you, for who is a son whom a father doth not chasten?
8 But if you are without that discipline in which all have become sharers, then you are of adultery, and you are not sons.
and if ye are apart from chastening, of which all have become partakers, then bastards are ye, and not sons.
9 Then, too, we have certainly had the fathers of our flesh as instructors, and we reverenced them. Should we not obey the Father of spirits all the more, and so live?
Then, indeed, fathers of our flesh we have had, chastising [us], and we were reverencing [them]; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of the spirits, and live?
10 And indeed, for a few days and according to their own wishes, they instructed us. But he does so to our benefit, so that we may receive his sanctification.
for they, indeed, for a few days, according to what seemed good to them, were chastening, but He for profit, to be partakers of His separation;
11 Now every discipline, in the present time, does not seem a gladness, of course, but a grief. But afterwards, it will repay a most peaceful fruit of justice to those who become trained in it.
and all chastening for the present, indeed, doth not seem to be of joy, but of sorrow, yet afterward the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those exercised through it — it doth yield.
12 Because of this, lift up your lazy hands and your lax knees,
Wherefore, the hanging-down hands and the loosened knees set ye up;
13 and straighten the path of your feet, so that no one, being lame, may wander astray, but instead may be healed.
and straight paths make for your feet, that that which is lame may not be turned aside, but rather be healed;
14 Pursue peace with everyone. Pursue sanctity, without which no one shall see God.
peace pursue with all, and the separation, apart from which no one shall see the Lord,
15 Be contemplative, lest anyone lack the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness spring up and impede you, and by it, many might be defiled,
looking diligently over lest any one be failing of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up may give trouble, and through this many may be defiled;
16 lest any fornicator or worldly person be like Esau, who, for the sake of one meal, sold his birthright.
lest any one be a fornicator, or a profane person, as Esau, who in exchange for one morsel of food did sell his birthright,
17 For you know that afterwards, when he desired to inherit the benediction, he was rejected. For he found no place for repentance, even though he had sought it with tears.
for ye know that also afterwards, wishing to inherit the blessing, he was disapproved of, for a place of reformation he found not, though with tears having sought it.
18 But you have not drawn near to a tangible mountain, or a burning fire, or a whirlwind, or a mist, or a storm,
For ye came not near to the mount touched and scorched with fire, and to blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
19 or the sound of a trumpet, or a voice of words. Those who had experienced these things excused themselves, lest the Word be spoken to them.
and a sound of a trumpet, and a voice of sayings, which those having heard did entreat that a word might not be added to them,
20 For they could not bear what was said, and so, if even a beast would have touched the mountain, it would have been stoned.
for they were not bearing that which is commanded, 'And if a beast may touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or with an arrow shot through,'
21 And what was seen was so terrible that even Moses said: “I am terrified, and so, I tremble.”
and, (so terrible was the sight, ) Moses said, 'I am fearful exceedingly, and trembling.'
22 But you have drawn near to mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, and to the company of many thousands of Angels,
But, ye came to Mount Zion, and to a city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of messengers,
23 and to the Church of the first-born, those who have been inscribed in the heavens, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the just made perfect,
to the company and assembly of the first-born in heaven enrolled, and to God the judge of all, and to spirits of righteous men made perfect,
24 and to Jesus, the Mediator of the New Testament, and to a sprinkling of blood, which speaks better than the blood of Abel.
and to a mediator of a new covenant — Jesus, and to blood of sprinkling, speaking better things than that of Abel!
25 Be careful not to reject the One who is speaking. For if those who rejected him who was speaking upon the earth were not able to escape, so much more we who might turn away from the One who is speaking to us from heaven.
See, may ye not refuse him who is speaking, for if those did not escape who refused him who upon earth was divinely speaking — much less we who do turn away from him who [speaketh] from heaven,
26 Then, his voice moved the earth. But now, he makes a promise, saying: “There is still one more time, and then I will move, not only the earth, but also heaven itself.”
whose voice the earth shook then, and now hath he promised, saying, 'Yet once — I shake not only the earth, but also the heaven;'
27 And so, in saying, “There is still one more time,” he declares the transfer of the moveable things of creation, so that those things which are immoveable may remain.
and this — 'Yet once' — doth make evident the removal of the things shaken, as of things having been made, that the things not shaken may remain;
28 Thus, in receiving an immoveable kingdom, we have grace. So, through grace, let us be of service, by pleasing God with fear and reverence.
wherefore, a kingdom that cannot be shaken receiving, may we have grace, through which we may serve God well-pleasingly, with reverence and religious fear;
29 For our God is a consuming fire.
for also our God [is] a consuming fire.
