Hebrews 12

12Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, ^alet us lay aside every weight, and ^bthe sin which doth so easily beset us, and ^clet us run ^dwith patience ^ethe race that is ^fset before us, ²Looking unto Jesus the ^||author and ^gfinisher of our faith; ^hwho for ⁱthe joy that was ^fset before him endured ^kthe cross, despising ^lthe shame, and ^mis set down at the right hand of the throne of God. ³For ⁿconsider him that endured such ^ocontradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye ^oobe wearied and ^pfaint in your minds.

⁴Ye have not yet resisted ^qunto blood, striving against sin. ⁵And ye have forgotten ^rthe exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, ^sMy son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor ^pfaint when thou art rebuked of him: ⁶For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and ^tscourgeth every son whom he receiveth. ⁷If ye endure chastening, ^uGod dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father ^vchasteneth not? ⁸But if ye be without chastisement, ^wwhereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. ⁹Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we ^xgave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto ^ythe Father of spirits, and live? ¹⁰For they verily for a few days chastened us ^||after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, ^zthat we might be partakers of his holiness. ¹¹Now no chastening ^afor the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth ^bthe peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are ^cexercised thereby. ¹²Wherefore ^delift up ^fgthe hands which hang down, and ^ghthe feeble knees; ¹³And ⁱmake ^||straight paths for your feet, ^jlest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but ^klet it rather be healed. ^14lFollow peace with all men, and ^mholiness, ⁿwithout which no man shall see the Lord: ¹⁵Looking diligently ^olest any man ^||fail of ^pthe grace of God; ^qlest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; ¹⁶Lest there be any ^rfornicator, or ^sprofane person, as Esau, ^twho for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. ¹⁷For ye know how that afterward, ^uwhen he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no ^||vplace of repentance, though he ^wsought it carefully with tears.

¹⁸For ye are not come unto ^xthe mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, ¹⁹And ^ythe sound of a trumpet, and ^yythe voice of words; which voice ^zthey that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more: ²⁰(For they could not endure that which was commanded, ^aAnd if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart: ²¹And ^bso terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I ^cexceedingly fear and quake:) ²²But ye are come unto ^dmount Sion, and unto ^ethe city of ^fthe living God, ^gthe heavenly Jerusalem, and ^hto an ⁱinnumerable company of angels, ²³To the general assembly and ^jchurch of ^kthe firstborn, ^lwhich are ^||written in heaven, and to ^mGod the Judge of all, and to ⁿthe spirits of just men ^omade perfect, ²⁴And to Jesus ^pthe mediator of the new ^||qcovenant, and to ^rthe blood of sprinkling, that speaketh ^sbetter things than ^tthat of Abel. ²⁵See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For ^uif they escaped not ^vwho refused him that ^wspake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven: ^26xWhose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, ^yYet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. ²⁷And this word, Yet once more, signifieth ^zthe removing of those things that ^||are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. ²⁸Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, ^||let us have grace, whereby we may ^aserve God ^bacceptably with reverence and ^cgodly fear: ²⁹For our ^dGod is ^ea consuming fire.