Hebrews 12
1 Why seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which does so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
Τοιγαροῦν καὶ ἡμεῖς, τοσοῦτον ἔχοντες περικείμενον ἡμῖν νέφος μαρτύρων, ὄγκον ἀποθέμενοι πάντα καὶ τὴν εὐπερίστατον ἁμαρτίαν διʼ ὑπομονῆς, τρέχωμεν τὸν προκείμενον ἡμῖν ἀγῶνα,
2 Looking to 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.
ἀφορῶντες εἰς τὸν τῆς πίστεως ἀρχηγὸν καὶ τελειωτὴν, ˚Ἰησοῦν, ὃς ἀντὶ τῆς προκειμένης αὐτῷ χαρᾶς, ὑπέμεινεν σταυρὸν, αἰσχύνης καταφρονήσας, “ἐν δεξιᾷ τε τοῦ θρόνου τοῦ ˚Θεοῦ κεκάθικεν”.
3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest you be wearied and faint in your minds.
Ἀναλογίσασθε γὰρ τὸν τοιαύτην ὑπομεμενηκότα ὑπὸ τῶν ἁμαρτωλῶν εἰς αὑτούς ἀντιλογίαν, ἵνα μὴ κάμητε, ταῖς ψυχαῖς ὑμῶν ἐκλυόμενοι.
4 You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin.
Οὔπω μέχρις αἵματος ἀντικατέστητε, πρὸς τὴν ἁμαρτίαν ἀνταγωνιζόμενοι,
5 And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to children, My son, despise not you the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are rebuked of him:
καὶ ἐκλέλησθε τῆς παρακλήσεως, ἥτις ὑμῖν ὡς υἱοῖς διαλέγεται, “Υἱέ μου, μὴ ὀλιγώρει παιδείας ˚Κυρίου, μηδὲ ἐκλύου ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ ἐλεγχόμενος·
6 For whom the Lord loves he chastens, and whips every son whom he receives.
ὃν γὰρ ἀγαπᾷ ˚Κύριος, παιδεύει, μαστιγοῖ δὲ πάντα υἱὸν ὃν παραδέχεται.”
7 If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chastens not?
Εἰς παιδείαν ὑπομένετε, ὡς υἱοῖς ὑμῖν προσφέρεται ὁ ˚Θεός· τίς γὰρ υἱὸς ὃν οὐ παιδεύει πατήρ;
8 But if you be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are you bastards, and not sons.
Εἰ δὲ χωρίς ἐστε παιδείας, ἧς μέτοχοι γεγόνασι πάντες, ἄρα νόθοι καὶ οὐχ υἱοί ἐστε.
9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?
Εἶτα τοὺς μὲν τῆς σαρκὸς ἡμῶν πατέρας εἴχομεν παιδευτὰς, καὶ ἐνετρεπόμεθα· οὐ πολὺ μᾶλλον ὑποταγησόμεθα τῷ Πατρὶ τῶν πνευμάτων, καὶ ζήσομεν;
10 For they truly for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
Οἱ μὲν γὰρ πρὸς ὀλίγας ἡμέρας κατὰ τὸ δοκοῦν αὐτοῖς ἐπαίδευον, ὁ δὲ ἐπὶ τὸ συμφέρον, εἰς τὸ μεταλαβεῖν τῆς ἁγιότητος αὐτοῦ.
11 Now no chastening for the present seems to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to them which are exercised thereby.
Πᾶσα δὲ παιδεία πρὸς μὲν τὸ παρὸν, οὐ δοκεῖ χαρᾶς εἶναι, ἀλλὰ λύπης, ὕστερον δὲ καρπὸν εἰρηνικὸν τοῖς διʼ αὐτῆς γεγυμνασμένοις ἀποδίδωσιν δικαιοσύνης.
12 Why lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
Διὸ τὰς παρειμένας χεῖρας, καὶ τὰ παραλελυμένα γόνατα, ἀνορθώσατε,
13 And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.
καὶ “τροχιὰς ὀρθὰς ποιεῖτε τοῖς ποσὶν ὑμῶν”, ἵνα μὴ τὸ χωλὸν ἐκτραπῇ, ἰαθῇ δὲ μᾶλλον.
14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
Εἰρήνην διώκετε μετὰ πάντων, καὶ τὸν ἁγιασμόν, οὗ χωρὶς οὐδεὶς ὄψεται τὸν ˚Κύριον.
15 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;
Ἐπισκοποῦντες μή τις ὑστερῶν ἀπὸ τῆς χάριτος τοῦ ˚Θεοῦ, μή τις ῥίζα πικρίας ἄνω φύουσα ἐνοχλῇ, καὶ διʼ αὐτῆς μιανθῶσιν οἱ πολλοί,
16 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
μή τις πόρνος ἢ βέβηλος, ὡς Ἠσαῦ, ὃς ἀντὶ βρώσεως μιᾶς, ἀπέδετο τὰ πρωτοτόκια ἑαυτοῦ.
17 For you 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.
ἴστε γὰρ ὅτι καὶ μετέπειτα θέλων κληρονομῆσαι τὴν εὐλογίαν, ἀπεδοκιμάσθη, μετανοίας γὰρ τόπον οὐχ εὗρεν, καίπερ μετὰ δακρύων ἐκζητήσας αὐτήν.
18 For you are not come to the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor to blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
Οὐ γὰρ προσεληλύθατε, ψηλαφωμένῳ καὶ κεκαυμένῳ πυρὶ, καὶ γνόφῳ, καὶ ζόφῳ, καὶ θυέλλῃ,
19 And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard entreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:
καὶ σάλπιγγος ἤχῳ, καὶ φωνῇ ῥημάτων, ἧς οἱ ἀκούσαντες, παρῃτήσαντο μὴ προστεθῆναι αὐτοῖς λόγον·
20 (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:
οὐκ ἔφερον γὰρ τὸ διαστελλόμενον, “Κἂν θηρίον θίγῃ τοῦ ὄρους, λιθοβοληθήσεται”·
21 And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake: )
καί οὕτω φοβερὸν ἦν τὸ φανταζόμενον, Μωϋσῆς εἶπεν, “Ἔκφοβός εἰμι καὶ ἔντρομος.”
22 But you are come to mount Sion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
Ἀλλὰ προσεληλύθατε Σιὼν Ὄρει καὶ πόλει ˚Θεοῦ ζῶντος, Ἰερουσαλὴμ ἐπουρανίῳ, καὶ μυριάσιν ἀγγέλων πανηγύρει,
23 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,
καὶ ἐκκλησίᾳ πρωτοτόκων, ἀπογεγραμμένων ἐν οὐρανοῖς, καὶ κριτῇ ˚Θεῷ πάντων, καὶ πνεύμασι δικαίων τετελειωμένων,
24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaks better things than that of Abel.
καὶ διαθήκης νέας μεσίτῃ, ˚Ἰησοῦ, καὶ αἵματι ῥαντισμοῦ, κρεῖττον λαλοῦντι παρὰ τὸν Ἅβελ.
25 See that you refuse not him that speaks. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaks from heaven:
Βλέπετε, μὴ παραιτήσησθε τὸν λαλοῦντα. Εἰ γὰρ ἐκεῖνοι οὐκ ἐξέφυγον ἐπὶ γῆς, παραιτησάμενοι τὸν χρηματίζοντα, πολὺ μᾶλλον ἡμεῖς οἱ τὸν ἀπʼ οὐρανῶν ἀποστρεφόμενοι·
26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he has promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
οὗ ἡ φωνὴ τὴν γῆν ἐσάλευσεν τότε, νῦν δὲ ἐπήγγελται λέγων, “Ἔτι ἅπαξ ἐγὼ σείσω, οὐ μόνον τὴν γῆν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸν οὐρανόν.”
27 And this word, Yet once more, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
Τὸ δὲ, “ἔτι ἅπαξ”, δηλοῖ τὴν τῶν σαλευομένων μετάθεσιν, ὡς πεποιημένων, ἵνα μείνῃ τὰ μὴ σαλευόμενα.
28 Why we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
Διὸ βασιλείαν ἀσάλευτον παραλαμβάνοντες, ἔχωμεν χάριν, διʼ ἧς λατρεύωμεν εὐαρέστως τῷ ˚Θεῷ μετὰ εὐλαβείας καὶ δέους.
29 For our God is a consuming fire.
Καὶ “γὰρ ὁ ˚Θεὸς ἡμῶν πῦρ καταναλίσκον”.
