Heb 12
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Therefore let us also, seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses,
lay aside every weight, and the sin which does so easily beset us, and let us run
with patience the race that is set before us,
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looking to Jesus the author and perfecter of [our] faith, who for the joy that was
set before him endured the cross, despising shame, and has sat down at the right hand
of the throne of God.
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For consider him whom has endured such gainsaying of sinners against himself, that
you wax not weary, fainting in your souls.
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You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin:
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and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with sons, My son,
regard not lightly the chastening of the Lord, Nor faint when you are reproved of
him;
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For whom the Lord loves he chastens, And scourges every son whom he receives.
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It is for chastening that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son
is there whom [his] father chastens not?
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But if you are without chastening, whereof all have been made partakers, then are
you bastards, and not sons.
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Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we gave them reverence:
shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?
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For they indeed for a few days chastened [us] as seemed good to them; but he for [our]
profit, that [we] may be partakers of his holiness.
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All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward
it yields peaceable fruit to them that have been exercised thereby, [even the fruit]
of righteousness.
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Wherefore lift up the hands that hang down, and the palsied knees;
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and make straight paths for your feet, that that which is lame be not turned out of
the way, but rather be healed.
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Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man shall
see the Lord:
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looking carefully lest [there be] any man that falls short of the grace of God; lest
any root of bitterness springing up trouble [you], and thereby the many be defiled;
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lest [there be] any fornication, or profane person, as Esau, who for one mess of meat
sold his own birthright.
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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 [in his father,] though he sought is diligently
with tears.
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For you are not come to [a mount] that might be touched, and that burned with fire,
and to blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
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and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which [voice] they that heard
entreated that no word more should be spoken to them;
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for they could not endure that which was enjoined, If even a beast touch the mountain,
it shall be stoned;
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and so fearful was the appearance, [that] Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:
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but you are come to mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem,
and to innumerable hosts of angels,
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to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and
to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
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and to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks
better than [that of] Abel.
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See that you refuse not him whom speaks. For if they escaped not when they refused
him whom warned [them] on earth, much more [shall not] we [escape] who turn away from
him whom [warns] from heaven:
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whose voice then shook the earth: but now he has promised, saying, Yet once more will
I make to tremble not the earth only, but also the heaven.
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And this [word], 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.
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Wherefore, receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us have grace, whereby we
may offer service well-pleasing to God with reverence and awe:
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for our God is a consuming fire.