Hebrews 12
1 Therefore let’s 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’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,
Therefore we also, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, having put off every weight and cleverly entangling sin, let us run by perseverance the contest being set before us.
2 looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Looking to Jesus the pathfinder and perfecter of the faith, who, against the joy set before him, endured a cross, having despised the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
3 For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.
For consider the man who endured such hostility against him by sinners, so that ye may not be weary in your souls, being disheartened.
4 You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin.
Ye have not yet resisted as far as blood, struggling against sin.
5 You have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;
And have ye forgotten the exhortation that reasons with you as with sons, My son, do not disparage the chastening of the Lord, nor become disheartened when punished by him?
6 for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son whom he receives.”
For whom the Lord loves he chastens. And he whips every son whom he receives.
7 It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline?
Because of chastening ye endure; God is treating you as with sons, for what son is there whom a father does not chasten?
8 But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then you are illegitimate, and not children.
And if ye are without chastening, of which all have become participants, then ye are bastards, and not sons.
9 Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?
Besides, we indeed have had chastisers-the fathers of our flesh-and we were turned around. Shall we not much more be subordinate to the Father of the spirits, and we will 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 those men indeed for a few days chastened us according to that which seemed good to them, but he for that which is advantageous, in order to be partakers of his holiness.
11 All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
But of course no chastening for the present seems to be of joy but of sorrow, yet afterward it yields peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
12 Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,
Therefore lift up the drooping hands, and the feeble knees,
13 and make straight paths for your feet, so what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.
and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be turned away, but may be healed instead.
14 Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,
Pursue peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord.
15 looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you and many be defiled by it,
Looking carefully lest any man fall short, away from the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness sprouting up would cause trouble, and by this many may be defiled,
16 lest there be any sexually immoral person or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.
lest a fornicator or profane man like Esau, who, in place of one meal sold his birthright.
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 also know that wanting afterward to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place of repentance, though having sought it with tears.
18 For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm,
For ye have not come to a mountain being felt, and which burned with fire, and to darkness, and gloom, and a 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 a sound of a trumpet, and a voice of words, of which those who heard begged that a word not be added to them.
20 for they could not stand that which was commanded, “If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned”.
For they did not bear that which was commanded, if even a beast should touch the mountain, it shall be stoned.
21 So fearful was the appearance that Moses said, “I am terrified and trembling.”
And so fearful was that which was made visible, that Moses said, I am terrified 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 have come to mount Zion, and to the city of a living God, a heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of agents,
23 to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,
to a festal gathering and assembly of firstborn sons who were enrolled in the heavens, and to God, a Judge of all, and to spirits of righteous men who were made fully perfect,
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 a mediator of a new covenant, and to blood of sprinkling that speaks better than Abel.
25 See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t 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,
Watch, that ye not refuse him who speaks. For if those men did not escape, having refused him who spoke a divine message on earth, much more we, those who turn away from him from the heavens,
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 has promised, saying, Yet once, I shake not only the earth, 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.
And the, Yet once, signifies the removal of the things being shaken-as of things that were made-so that the things not being shaken may remain.
28 Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let’s have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,
Therefore, receiving an immovable kingdom, we may have grace, through which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and awe.
29 for our God is a consuming fire.
For our God is also a consuming fire.
