Hebrews 12
1 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,
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,
2 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;
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.
3 for consider again him who endured such gainsaying from the sinners to himself, that ye may not be wearied in your souls — being faint.
For consider him who has endured such hostility from sinners against himself, so that you may not become tired and give up.
4 Not yet unto blood did ye resist — with the sin striving;
You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood in your struggle against sin;
5 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,
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.
6 for whom the Lord doth love He doth chasten, and He scourgeth every son whom He receiveth;'
For whom the Lord loves he disciplines, and punishes every son he accepts."
7 if chastening ye endure, as to sons God beareth Himself to you, for who is a son whom a father doth not chasten?
If you are enduring discipline, God is dealing with you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?
8 and if ye are apart from chastening, of which all have become partakers, then bastards are ye, and not sons.
But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then you are illegitimate, and not sons.
9 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?
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?
10 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;
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.
11 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.
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.
12 Wherefore, the hanging-down hands and the loosened knees set ye up;
Therefore, lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,
13 and straight paths make for your feet, that that which is lame may not be turned aside, but rather be healed;
and make straight paths for your feet, so that which is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.
14 peace pursue with all, and the separation, apart from which no one shall see the Lord,
Pursue peace with everyone, and the sanctification without which no one will see the Lord,
15 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;
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;
16 lest any one be a fornicator, or a profane person, as Esau, who in exchange for one morsel of food did sell his birthright,
that there be no sexually immoral or profane person like Esau, who sold his own birthright for one meal.
17 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.
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.
18 For ye came not near to the mount touched and scorched with fire, and to blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
For you have not come to something that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and darkness, gloom, and storm,
19 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,
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,
20 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,'
for they could not stand that which was commanded, "If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned;"
21 and, (so terrible was the sight, ) Moses said, 'I am fearful exceedingly, and trembling.'
and so fearful was the appearance, that Moses said, "I am terrified and trembling."
22 But, ye came to Mount Zion, and to a city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of messengers,
But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,
23 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,
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,
24 and to a mediator of a new covenant — Jesus, and to blood of sprinkling, speaking better things than that of Abel!
to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.
25 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,
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,
26 whose voice the earth shook then, and now hath he promised, saying, 'Yet once — I shake not only the earth, but also the heaven;'
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."
27 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;
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.
28 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;
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,
29 for also our God [is] a consuming fire.
for our God is a consuming fire.
