Hebrews 12:1–17

And therefore we also having so great a cloud of witnesses over our head, laying aside every weight and sin which surrounds us, let us run by patience to the fight proposed to us:

²Looking on Jesus, the author and finisher of faith, who, having joy set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and now sitteth on the right hand of the throne of God.

³For think diligently upon him that endured such opposition from sinners against himself that you be not wearied, fainting in your minds.

⁴For you have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.

⁵And you have forgotten the consolation which speaketh to you, as unto children, saying: My son, neglect not the discipline of the Lord: neither be thou wearied whilst thou art rebuked by him.

⁶For whom the Lord loveth he chastiseth: and he scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

⁷Persevere under discipline. God dealeth with you as with his sons. For what son is there whom the father doth not correct?

⁸But if you be without chastisement, whereof all are made partakers, then are you bastards and not sons.

⁹Moreover, we have had fathers of our flesh for instructors, and we reverenced them. Shall we not much more obey the Father of spirits and live?

¹⁰And they indeed for a few days, according to their own pleasure, instructed us: but he, for our profit, that we might receive his sanctification.

¹¹Now all chastisement for the present indeed seemeth not to bring with it joy, but sorrow: but afterwards it will yield to them that are exercised by it the most peaceable fruit of justice.

¹²Wherefore, lift up the hands which hang down and the feeble knees:

¹³And make straight steps with your feet: that no one, halting, may go out of the way; but rather be healed.

¹⁴Follow peace with all men and holiness: without which no man shall see God.

¹⁵Looking diligently, lest any man be wanting to the grace of God: lest any root of bitterness springing up do hinder and by it many be defiled:

¹⁶Lest there be any fornicator or profane person, as Esau who for one mess sold his first birthright.

¹⁷For know ye that afterwards, when he desired to inherit the benediction, he was rejected. For he found no place of repentance, although with tears he had sought it.