< Hebrews 12 >
1 We [know about] many people like that [who showed they trusted in God]. They are like a crowd of spectators [who are cheering for us inside a stadium] [MET]. Knowing that, we must put away all the things that hinder us, [as a runner puts aside everything that would hinder him because they are heavy] [MET]. Especially we must put away sinful actions that [hinder us, as a runner] sets aside clothes he does not need, clothes that would entangle him [MET]. Let us [wholeheartedly strive to achieve what God has planned for us, as someone] in a race wholeheartedly runs the course that is before him [MET].
අතෝ හේතෝරේතාවත්සාක්ෂිමේඝෛ ර්වේෂ්ටිතාඃ සන්තෝ වයමපි සර්ව්වභාරම් ආශුබාධකං පාපඤ්ච නික්ෂිප්යාස්මාකං ගමනාය නිරූපිතේ මාර්ගේ ධෛර්ය්යේණ ධාවාම|
2 And let us [keep our minds on] Jesus, [as a runner] keeps his eyes on [the goal] [MET]. Jesus is the one we should imitate in the way he perfectly trusted [God. When he died on] the cross he endured it as he suffered greatly [MTY], instead of [thinking about the things he would] rejoice about [later]. He disregarded being disgraced by [dying that way]. He is now sitting at the place of highest honor [MTY] at the throne [where God rules].
යශ්චාස්මාකං විශ්වාසස්යාග්රේසරඃ සිද්ධිකර්ත්තා චාස්ති තං යීශුං වීක්ෂාමහෛ යතඃ ස ස්වසම්මුඛස්ථිතානන්දස්ය ප්රාප්ත්යර්ථම් අපමානං තුච්ඡීකෘත්ය ක්රුශස්ය යාතනාං සෝඪවාන් ඊශ්වරීයසිංහාසනස්ය දක්ෂිණපාර්ශ්වේ සමුපවිෂ්ටවාංශ්ච|
3 [Jesus] patiently endured it when sinful people acted so hostilely against him. Try to act the way he did, so that you do not give up [trusting] God or become discouraged.
යඃ පාපිභිඃ ස්වවිරුද්ධම් ඒතාදෘශං වෛපරීත්යං සෝඪවාන් තම් ආලෝචයත තේන යූයං ස්වමනඃසු ශ්රාන්තාඃ ක්ලාන්තාශ්ච න භවිෂ්යථ|
4 While you have struggled against [being tempted to] sin, you have not yet bled [and died because of resisting evil, as Jesus did].
යූයං පාපේන සහ යුධ්යන්තෝ(අ)ද්යාපි ශෝණිතව්යයපර්ය්යන්තං ප්රතිරෝධං නාකුරුත|
5 Do not forget [RHQ] these words [that Solomon spoke to his son, that are the same as God] would exhort you as his children: My child, pay attention [LIT] when the Lord is disciplining you, and do not be discouraged when the Lord punishes you [DOU],
තථා ච පුත්රාන් ප්රතීව යුෂ්මාන් ප්රති ය උපදේශ උක්තස්තං කිං විස්මෘතවන්තඃ? "පරේශේන කෘතාං ශාස්තිං හේ මත්පුත්ර න තුච්ඡය| තේන සංභර්ත්සිතශ්චාපි නෛව ක්ලාම්ය කදාචන|
6 because it is everyone whom he loves whom the Lord disciplines, and he punishes everyone whom he accepts as his child.
පරේශඃ ප්රීයතේ යස්මින් තස්මෛ ශාස්තිං දදාති යත්| යන්තු පුත්රං ස ගෘහ්ලාති තමේව ප්රහරත්යපි| "
7 It is in order that God may discipline you that he requires you to endure the disagreeable things [that happen to you]. [When God disciplines you] he is treating you as a father treats his children. All fathers [RHQ] discipline their children [LIT].
යදි යූයං ශාස්තිං සහධ්වං තර්හීශ්වරඃ පුත්රෛරිව යුෂ්මාභිඃ සාර්ද්ධං ව්යවහරති යතඃ පිතා යස්මෛ ශාස්තිං න දදාති තාදෘශඃ පුත්රඃ කඃ?
8 So, if you have not experienced God disciplining you just like he disciplines all his other children, you are [not true children of God] [MET]. [You are like] illegitimate children; [no father disciplines them].
සර්ව්වේ යස්යාඃ ශාස්තේරංශිනෝ භවන්ති සා යදි යුෂ්මාකං න භවති තර්හි යූයම් ආත්මජා න කින්තු ජාරජා ආධ්වේ|
9 Furthermore, our natural fathers disciplined us [when we were young], and we respected them for doing that. So we should certainly more readily accept God our spiritual Father disciplining us, with the result that we live eternally [RHQ]!
අපරම් අස්මාකං ශාරීරිකජන්මදාතාරෝ(අ)ස්මාකං ශාස්තිකාරිණෝ(අ)භවන් තේ චාස්මාභිඃ සම්මානිතාස්තස්මාද් ය ආත්මනාං ජනයිතා වයං කිං තතෝ(අ)ධිකං තස්ය වශීභූය න ජීවිෂ්යාමඃ?
10 Our natural fathers disciplined us for a short time in a way that they considered right, [but it wasn’t always right], but God always disciplines us [in a right way], to help us. He does it so that we may be holy as he is.
තේ ත්වල්පදිනානි යාවත් ස්වමනෝ(අ)මතානුසාරේණ ශාස්තිං කෘතවන්තඃ කින්ත්වේෂෝ(අ)ස්මාකං හිතාය තස්ය පවිත්රතායා අංශිත්වාය චාස්මාන් ශාස්ති|
11 During the time that God is disciplining us, that does not seem to be something about which we should rejoice. Instead, it is something that pains us. But later it causes those who have learned from it to be peaceful and to [live] righteously.
ශාස්තිශ්ච වර්ත්තමානසමයේ කේනාපි නානන්දජනිකා කින්තු ශෝකජනිකෛව මන්යතේ තථාපි යේ තයා විනීයන්තේ තේභ්යඃ සා පශ්චාත් ශාන්තියුක්තං ධර්ම්මඵලං දදාති|
12 So, [instead of acting as though you were spiritually exhausted], renew yourselves [MET] spiritually.
අතඒව යූයං ශිථිලාන් හස්තාන් දුර්බ්බලානි ජානූනි ච සබලානි කුරුධ්වං|
13 Go straight forward [in your Christian life] [MET], in order that believers who are uncertain about their faith [will imitate you] and not ([leave God’s way/] useless [to God]) [MET]. Instead, they will be spiritually restored [MET] as an injured and useless limb is restored.
යථා ච දුර්බ්බලස්ය සන්ධිස්ථානං න භජ්යේත ස්වස්ථං තිෂ්ඨේත් තථා ස්වචරණාර්ථං සරලං මාර්ගං නිර්ම්මාත|
14 Try to live peacefully with all people. Seek to be holy, since no one will see the Lord if he is not holy.
අපරඤ්ච සර්ව්වෛඃ සාර්ථම් ඒක්යභාවං යච්ච විනා පරමේශ්වරස්ය දර්ශනං කේනාපි න ලප්ස්යතේ තත් පවිත්රත්වං චේෂ්ටධ්වං|
15 Beware that none of you stops [trusting in] God, [who has done kind things for us that we did not deserve] (OR, Beware that you have never [experienced] God kindly [saving you]). Be on guard lest any of you [act in an evil way towards others], because your doing that will [grow like] [MET] a root [grows into a big plant], and the result [of your] doing that will be that many believers will sin and become unacceptable to God.
යථා කශ්චිද් ඊශ්වරස්යානුග්රහාත් න පතේත්, යථා ච තික්තතායා මූලං ප්රරුහ්ය බාධාජනකං න භවේත් තේන ච බහවෝ(අ)පවිත්රා න භවේයුඃ,
16 Do not let anyone be immoral, or be irreligious as Esau was. He exchanged the rights he had as a firstborn son for only one meal.
යථා ච කශ්චිත් ලම්පටෝ වා ඒකකෘත්ව ආහාරාර්ථං ස්වීයජ්යේෂ්ඨාධිකාරවික්රේතා ය ඒෂෞස්තද්වද් අධර්ම්මාචාරී න භවේත් තථා සාවධානා භවත|
17 You know that after he did that, he wanted to receive [what his father would promise to give him if] he blessed him. But [his father] was unable [to change what he had already done]. And Esau found no way to change things, even though he sought tearfully to do that.
යතඃ ස ඒෂෞඃ පශ්චාද් ආශීර්ව්වාදාධිකාරී භවිතුම් ඉච්ඡන්නපි නානුගෘහීත ඉති යූයං ජානීථ, ස චාශ්රුපාතේන මත්යන්තරං ප්රාර්ථයමානෝ(අ)පි තදුපායං න ලේභේ|
18 In coming [to God] you have not [experienced things like what the Israeli people experienced] at [Sinai] Mountain. [They] approached [a mountain that God told them they] should not touch. [They approached] a blazing fire, and it was gloomy and dark [DOU], and there was a hurricane/cyclone.
අපරඤ්ච ස්පෘශ්යඃ පර්ව්වතඃ ප්රජ්වලිතෝ වහ්නිඃ කෘෂ්ණාවර්ණෝ මේඝෝ (අ)න්ධකාරෝ ඣඤ්භ්ශ තූරීවාද්යං වාක්යානාං ශබ්දශ්ච නෛතේෂාං සන්නිධෞ යූයම් ආගතාඃ|
19 They heard a trumpet sounding and they heard [God] speak. The result was that those who heard it pleaded for God not to speak to them like that again.
තං ශබ්දං ශ්රුත්වා ශ්රෝතාරස්තාදෘශං සම්භාෂණං යත් පුන ර්න ජායතේ තත් ප්රාර්ථිතවන්තඃ|
20 When [God] commanded them saying, “If [a person or] even an animal touches this mountain, [you] must [kill him/it by] throwing stones at him/it,” they were terrified.
යතඃ පශුරපි යදි ධරාධරං ස්පෘශති තර්හි ස පාෂාණාඝාතෛ ර්හන්තව්ය ඉත්යාදේශං සෝඪුං තේ නාශක්නුවන්|
21 Truly, because Moses was terrified after seeing what happened [on the mountain], he said, “I am trembling because I am very afraid!”
තච්ච දර්ශනම් ඒවං භයානකං යත් මූසසෝක්තං භීතස්ත්රාසයුක්තශ්චාස්මීති|
22 Instead, [it is as though] you have come to [the presence of God in heaven] [MET]. [That is like what your ancestors did when they came to worship] God on Zion Hill, in Jerusalem, in the city of God who is all-powerful. You have come (OR, you are coming) to where there are countless angels, who are rejoicing as they have gathered together.
කින්තු සීයෝන්පර්ව්වතෝ (අ)මරේශ්වරස්ය නගරං ස්වර්ගස්ථයිරූශාලමම් අයුතානි දිව්යදූතාඃ
23 You have joined all the believers [who have privileges like] firstborn sons, whose names [God] has written down in heaven. You have come to God, who will judge everyone. You have come to where the spirits of God’s people are, people who lived righteously [before they died], and who now have been made perfect [in heaven].
ස්වර්ගේ ලිඛිතානාං ප්රථමජාතානාම් උත්සවඃ සමිතිශ්ච සර්ව්වේෂාං විචාරාධිපතිරීශ්වරඃ සිද්ධීකෘතධාර්ම්මිකානාම් ආත්මානෝ
24 You have come to Jesus, who arranged a new covenant [between us and God]. You have accepted [what he accomplished when] his blood flowed [when he died on the cross. His doing that made it possible for God to forgive us]. That is better than the blood of Abel, [who just] wanted revenge because his brother Cain murdered him.
නූතනනියමස්ය මධ්යස්ථෝ යීශුඃ, අපරං හාබිලෝ රක්තාත් ශ්රේයඃ ප්රචාරකං ප්රෝක්ෂණස්ය රක්තඤ්චෛතේෂාං සන්නිධෞ යූයම් ආගතාඃ|
25 Beware that you do not refuse to listen to [God] who is speaking to you. The Israeli people did not escape [God punishing them] when [Moses] (OR, [God]) warned them here on earth. So we shall surely not escape [God punishing us] if we reject him when he warns us from heaven! [RHQ]
සාවධානා භවත තං වක්තාරං නාවජානීත යතෝ හේතෝඃ පෘථිවීස්ථිතඃ ස වක්තා යෛරවඥාතස්තෛ ර්යදි රක්ෂා නාප්රාපි තර්හි ස්වර්ගීයවක්තුඃ පරාඞ්මුඛීභූයාස්මාභිඃ කථං රක්ෂා ප්රාප්ස්යතේ?
26 The earth shook [PRS] then when he spoke [MTY] [at Sinai Mountain]. But now he has promised, “I will shake the earth again, one more time, but I will shake heaven too.”
තදා තස්ය රවාත් පෘථිවී කම්පිතා කින්ත්විදානීං තේනේදං ප්රතිඥාතං යථා, "අහං පුනරේකකෘත්වඃ පෘථිවීං කම්පයිෂ්යාමි කේවලං තන්නහි ගගනමපි කම්පයිෂ්යාමි| "
27 The words “again, one more time” indicate that things [on earth] will be shaken {that [he] will shake things [on earth]}, meaning that he will set aside all that [he] has created, in order that the things [in heaven] that cannot be shaken {that nothing can shake} may remain forever.
ස ඒකකෘත්වඃ ශබ්දෝ නිශ්චලවිෂයාණාං ස්ථිතයේ නිර්ම්මිතානාමිව චඤ්චලවස්තූනාං ස්ථානාන්තරීකරණං ප්රකාශයති|
28 So, let us thank God that we are becoming members of a kingdom that nothing can shake. Let us worship/serve God in a way that pleases him by being greatly in awe [DOU] before him.
අතඒව නිශ්චලරාජ්යප්රාප්තෛරස්මාභිඃ සෝ(අ)නුග්රහ ආලම්බිතව්යෝ යේන වයං සාදරං සභයඤ්ච තුෂ්ටිජනකරූපේණේශ්වරං සේවිතුං ශක්නුයාම|
29 Remember that the God we [worship/serve] is like a fire that burns up everything [that is impure] [MET]!
යතෝ(අ)ස්මාකම් ඊශ්වරඃ සංහාරකෝ වහ්නිඃ|