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Hebrews 12:1 (show verse)
Therefore seeing we also are surrounded with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which does so easily ensnare us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
Hebrews 12:2 (show verse)
Looking unto Jesus the author and perfecter of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
Hebrews 12:3 (show verse)
For consider him that endured such hostility of sinners against himself, lest you be wearied and faint in your minds.
Hebrews 12:4 (show verse)
You have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
Hebrews 12:5 (show verse)
And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks unto you as unto children, My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are rebuked of him:
Hebrews 12:6 (show verse)
For whom the Lord loves he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.
Hebrews 12:7 (show verse)
If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chastens not?
Hebrews 12:8 (show verse)
But if you be without chastisement, of which all are partakers, then are you illegitimate children, and not sons.
Hebrews 12:9 (show verse)
Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
Hebrews 12:10 (show verse)
For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
Hebrews 12:11 (show verse)
Now no chastening for the present seems to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them who are trained by it.
Hebrews 12:12 (show verse)
Therefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
Hebrews 12:13 (show verse)
And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.
Hebrews 12:14 (show verse)
Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
Hebrews 12:15 (show verse)
Looking diligently lest any man fall short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
Hebrews 12:16 (show verse)
Lest there be any immoral, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright.
Hebrews 12:17 (show verse)
For you know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
Hebrews 12:18 (show verse)
For you are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
Hebrews 12:19 (show verse)
And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard entreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:
Hebrews 12:20 (show verse)
(For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as an animal touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a spear:
Hebrews 12:21 (show verse)
And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)
Hebrews 12:22 (show verse)
But you are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
Hebrews 12:23 (show verse)
To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, who are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
Hebrews 12:24 (show verse)
And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaks better things than that of Abel.
Hebrews 12:25 (show verse)
See that you refuse not him that speaks. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape, if we turn away from him that speaks from heaven:
Hebrews 12:26 (show verse)
Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he has promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
Hebrews 12:27 (show verse)
And this word, Yet once more, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
Hebrews 12:28 (show verse)
Therefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
Hebrews 12:29 (show verse)
For our God is a consuming fire.