The Letter to the Hebrews, Chapter 12
{12:1} 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, {12:2} looking to Yeshua, the author and perfecter of 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. {12:3}
For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against
himself, that you don't grow weary, fainting in your souls. {12:4} You
have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin; {12:5} and you
have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with sons,
"My son, don't take lightly the chastening of the Lord,
Nor faint when you are reproved by him;
{12:6} For whom the Lord loves, he chastens,
And scourges every son whom he receives."
{12:7} It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as
with sons, for what son is there whom his father doesn't discipline?
{12:8} But if you are without discipline, whereof all have been made
partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not sons. {12:9}
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? {12:10} For they indeed, for a few days,
punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may
be partakers of his holiness. {12:11} 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 exercised
thereby. {12:12} Therefore, lift up the hands that hang down and the
feeble knees, {12:13} and make straight paths for your feet, that that
which is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed. {12:14}
Follow after shalom with all men, and the sanctification without which
no man will see the Lord, {12:15} 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 thereby the many be defiled; {12:16}
lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, as Esav,
who sold his birthright for one meal. {12:17} 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. {12:18} For you have not come to a mountain
that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and to blackness,
darkness, tempest, {12:19} the sound of a [1>]shofar[<1], and the
voice of words; which those who heard it begged that not one more word
should be spoken to them, {12:20} for they could not stand that which
was enjoined, "If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be
stoned;" {12:21} and so fearful was the appearance, that Moshe said,
"I am terrified and trembling." {12:22} But you have come to Mount
Tziyon, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Yerushalayim,
and to innumerable hosts of angels, {12:23} to the general assembly
and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God, the
Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, {12:24} to
Yeshua, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling
that speaks better than that of Hevel. {12:25} See that you don't
refuse him who speaks. For if they didn't escape when they refused him
who warned on the Eretz, how much more will we not escape who turn
away from him who warns from heaven, {12:26} whose voice shook the
[2>]eretz[<2], then, but now he has promised, saying, "Yet once more
will I shake not only the [3>]eretz[<3], but also the heavens."
{12:27} 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. {12:28} Therefore, receiving a
kingdom that can't be shaken, let us have grace, whereby we may offer
service well pleasing to God, with reverence and awe, {12:29} for our
God is a consuming fire.
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Footnotes:
[1] {12:19} trumpet
[2] {12:26} earth
[3] {12:26} earth
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