Mga Hebreo 12
1 Samakatwid, sapagkat napapaligiran tayo ng napakaraming mga saksi, itapon nating lahat ang mga bagay na nagpapabigat sa atin at ang kasalanan na madaling makagapos sa atin. Dapat may katiyagaan tayong magpatuloy sa takbuhin na inilagay sa ating harapan.
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].
2 Dapat nating ituon ang ating mga mata kay Jesus, ang may-akda at nagpapaganap ng ating pananampalataya, dahil sa kagalakan na inilaan sa kaniya, na nagdala sa kaniya na nagtiis sa krus sa kabila ng kahihiyan, at umupo sa kanang kamay ng trono ng Diyos.
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].
3 Kaya isinaalang-alang niya na tiisin ang mga masasakit na salita mula sa mga makasalan laban sa kaniya upang tayo ay hindi na mapapagod at manghihina.
[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.
4 Hindi niyo pa tinanggihan o nilabanan ang kasalanan na humantong sa pagkaubos ng dugo.
While you have struggled against [being tempted to] sin, you have not yet bled [and died because of resisting evil, as Jesus did].
5 At nakalimutan na ninyo ang ibinigay na lakas at pag-asa na itinuro sa inyo bilang mga anak:” Aking anak, huwag mong babaliwalain ang pagdidisiplina ng Panginoon, ni ilayo ang iyong puso kung ikaw ay kanyang tinutuwid”
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],
6 Sapagkat ang Panginoon ay nagdidisiplina sa sinumang minamahal niya, at pinarurusahan niya ang bawat anak na kanyang tinatanggap.
because it is everyone whom he loves whom the Lord disciplines, and he punishes everyone whom he accepts as his child.
7 Tiisin ang pagsubok bilang pagdisiplina. Nakikitungo ang Diyos sa inyo bilang mga anak, sapagkat sino bang anak ang hindi dinidisiplina ng kaniyang ama?
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].
8 Ngunit kung kayo ay walang disiplina, kung saan lahat tayo ay dapat kabahagi, kung gayon hindi kayo mga tunay na anak at mga anak sa labas.
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].
9 Bukod dito, mayroon tayong mga makamundong amang nagdidisiplina sa atin, at iginagalang natin sila. Hindi ba dapat nararapat na mas higit tayong sumunod sa Ama ng mga espiritu at mabuhay?
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]!
10 Sapagkat ang ating mga ama nga ay nagdidisplina sa atin ng ilang mga taon sa alam nilang tama para sa kanila, subalit tayo ay dinidisiplina ng Diyos upang tayo ay makibahagi sa kaniyang kabanalan.
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.
11 Walang disiplina sa kasalukuyan na masaya kundi masakit. Gayunpaman, sa ibang pagkakataon ito ay magbibigay ng mapayapang bunga ng katuwiran para sa sinumang nagsanay sa pamamagitan nito.
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.
12 Samakatuwid itaas ninyo ang inyong mga kamay na nakababa at palakasing muli ang nanghihinang mga tuhod;
So, [instead of acting as though you were spiritually exhausted], renew yourselves [MET] spiritually.
13 gawin mong matuwid ang mga daan ng iyong mga paa, upang ang sinumang pilay ay hindi maliligaw sa halip ay gagaling.
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.
14 Sikapin ang kapayapaan sa lahat ng mga tao, at gayundin ang kabanalan na kung wala ito walang makakakita sa Panginoon.
Try to live peacefully with all people. Seek to be holy, since no one will see the Lord if he is not holy.
15 Maging maingat upang walang sinuman ang hindi maisama mula sa biyaya ng Diyos, at walang ugat ng kapaitan ang tumubo upang maging dahilan ng hindi pagkakaunawaan at mahawa ang marami.
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.
16 Maging maingat na walang maki-apid sa inyo, o hindi maka-diyos na tao kagaya ni Esau na ipinagpalit sa isang pagkain ang karapatan bilang panganay.
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.
17 Sapagkat alam ninyo na pagkatapos, nang kaniyang naising makamit ang biyaya, siya ay tinanggihan dahil hindi siya nagkaroon ng pagkakataong magsisisi sa kaniyang ama, kahit na pilit niya itong hinangad nang may mga luha.
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.
18 Sapagkat hindi kayo lumapit sa isang bundok na nahahawakan, isang bundok na nag-aalab ng apoy, kadiliman, kalungkutan at bagyo.
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.
19 Hindi kayo pumarito dahil sa ingay ng trumpeta, o sa mga salitang galing sa isang tinig na ang mga nakarinig nito ay nagmamaka-awang wala ng salitang sasabihin sa kanila.
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.
20 Sapagkat hindi nila kayang tanggapin kung ano man ang iniutos: na kahit may isang hayop na hahawak sa bundok, dapat itong batuhin,”
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.
21 Kaya nakakatakot ang tanawin na sinabi ni Moises,” Ako ay sobrang nasindak na ako ay nanginginig.
Truly, because Moses was terrified after seeing what happened [on the mountain], he said, “I am trembling because I am very afraid!”
22 Sa halip, kayo ay lumapit sa Bundok ng Zion at sa lungsod ng Diyos na buhay, ang makalangit na Jerusalem, at sa hindi mabilang na hukbo ng mga anghel na nagdiriwang.
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.
23 Kayo ay lumalapit sa kapulungan ng mga unang ipinanganak na inilista sa langit, sa Diyos na hukom ng lahat, at sa mga espiritu ng katuwiran na naging ganap.
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].
24 Kayo ay lumapit kay Jesus na tagapamagitan ng isang bagong tipan, at sa dugong naikalat na higit na nagsasalita ng mabuti kaysa sa dugo ni Abel.
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.
25 Tiyakin ninyo na hindi ninyo tinanggihan ang nagsasalita. Sapagkat kung hindi sila nakatakas ng sila ay tumanggi sa isang nagbigay babala sa kanila dito sa lupa, tiyak na hindi tayo makakatakas, kung tatalikod tayo mula sa nagbabala mula sa langit.
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]
26 At sa mga oras na iyon ang kaniyang tinig ang yayanig sa lupa. Subalit ngayon nangako siya at sinabi, “Minsan ko pang yayanigin hindi lamang ang lupa ngunit maging ang kalangitan.”
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.”
27 Ang mga salitang ito na,” Ngunit minsan pa,” ay nagpapahiwatig sa pagtanggal ng mga bagay na nayayanig, iyon ay ang mga bagay na nilikha, upang ang mga bagay na hindi nayayanig ay mananatili.
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.
28 Samakatuwid, magpapasalamat tayo sa pagtanggap ng isang kahariang hindi nayayanig, at sa ganitong pagpupuri sa Diyos sa paraang katanggaptanggap na may paggalang at paghanga
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.
29 sapagkat ang ating Diyos ay parang apoy na nakakatupok
Remember that the God we [worship/serve] is like a fire that burns up everything [that is impure] [MET]!
