Hebrews 12
1 Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
THEREFORE also seeing we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, laying aside every weight, and that most easily besetting sin, let us run with patience the race lying before us,
2 looking to Jesus, the founder and completer of the faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
earnestly looking up to Jesus the author and the finisher of faith; who, for the joy set before him, endured the cross, despising shame, and hath sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
3 For consider him who has endured such hostility from sinners against himself, so that you may not become tired and give up.
Consider then attentively him that endured from sinners such opposition against himself, that ye be not wearied out, fainting in your souls.
4 You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood in your struggle against sin;
As yet ye have not resisted unto blood, struggling against sin.
5 and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with sons, "My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor lose heart when you are corrected by him.
And have you forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you, as children, “My son, count not lightly of the Lord’s childlike correction, nor faint when under his rebuke:
6 For whom the Lord loves he disciplines, and punishes every son he accepts."
for whom the Lord loveth he correcteth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.”
7 If you are enduring discipline, God is dealing with you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?
If ye patiently endure correction, God carries himself towards you as his children: for who is the son whom the father doth not correct?
8 But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then you are illegitimate, and not sons.
If then ye are without correction, of which all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not children.
9 Furthermore, we had earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we paid them respect. Should we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live?
If then we have had the fathers of our flesh for correctors, and reverenced them; shall we not much more be under subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?
10 For they indeed, for a few days, disciplined us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.
For they indeed for a few days as seemed proper to themselves corrected us; but he for our own advantage, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
11 All discipline seems for the moment painful, not joyful; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.
Now all correction at the moment seemeth not to be cause for joy, but for sorrow; but after a while it produceth peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have thereby been disciplined.
12 Therefore, lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,
Wherefore stretch out again the hands that hang down, and the paralytic knees;
13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that which is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.
and make strait paths for your feet, that what is halting may not be turned out of the way; but that it may rather be healed.
14 Pursue peace with everyone, and the sanctification without which no one will see the Lord,
Earnestly seek peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
15 looking carefully lest there be anyone who falls short of the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by it many become defiled;
carefully observing lest any of you fail of attaining the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and by it many be defiled;
16 that there be no sexually immoral or profane person like Esau, who sold his own birthright for one meal.
lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of bread parted with his birthrights.
17 For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears.
For ye know, that when afterwards he wished to inherit the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place for a change of his father’s mind, though he sought it earnestly with tears.
18 For you have not come to something that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and darkness, gloom, and storm,
For ye have not approached the mountain that could only be groped for, and that burned with fire, and the thick cloud, and the darkness, and the tempest,
19 the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which those who heard it begged that not one more word should be spoken to them,
and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words, which they who heard, earnestly begged that the discourse might not be directed to them:
20 for they could not stand that which was commanded, "If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned;"
for they could not bear the charge given, and “If but a beast touch the mountain he shall be stoned, or shot through with a dart:”
21 and so fearful was the appearance, that Moses said, "I am terrified and trembling."
and so terrible was the appearance, that Moses said, I am exceedingly afraid and trembling:
22 But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,
but ye are come unto mount Sion, and to the city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels,
23 to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of righteous people made perfect,
and to the general assembly and church of the first-born registered in the heavens, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of just men perfected,
24 to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.
and to Jesus the mediator of the new testament, and to the blood of sprinkling, which speaketh better things than that of Abel.
25 See that you do not refuse him who speaks. For if they did not escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,
Beware that ye reject not him that speaketh: for if they escaped not, who rejected him, that upon earth spake by divine influence, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him who speaks from heaven:
26 whose voice shook the earth then, but now he has promised, saying, "Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heavens."
whose voice then shook the earth, but now he hath promised, saying, “Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also the heaven.”
27 This phrase, "Yet once more," signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain.
Now this word yet once more manifests the removal of the things shaken, as of things formed, that the things not shaken may endure.
28 So since we are receiving a Kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us give thanks, through which we may offer service pleasing to God, with reverence and awe,
Wherefore receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, may we hold fast the grace, by which we can offer to God acceptably divine service, with reverence and pious awe:
29 for our God is a consuming fire.
for our God is a devouring fire.
