Hebrews 12

¹For what reason seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us 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,

²Looking unto Yeshua [God is Salvation] the author and finisher of [our] faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the stake (cross) , despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God-The Father.

³For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest you2f be wearied and give up in your minds.

⁴You2f have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.

⁵And you2f have forgotten the Exhortation (encouragement; counsel) which speaks unto you as unto children, My son, despise not youi the chastening of the Lord - Kurios, nor give up when youi are rebuked of him:

⁶For whom the Lord - Kurios loves he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.

⁷If you2f endure chastening, God-The Father deals with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chastens not?

⁸But if you2f be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are you2f bastards, and not sons.

⁹Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected [us] , and we gave [them] reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

¹⁰For they truly for a few days chastened [us] after their own pleasure; but he for [our] profit, that [we] might be partakers of his holiness.

¹¹Now no chastening for the present seems to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.

¹²For what reason lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;

¹³And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.

¹⁴Follow peace with all [men] , and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord - Kurios:

¹⁵Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God-The Father; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble [you] , and thereby many be defiled;

¹⁶Lest there [be] any fornicator, or Profane (treat as common; defile) person, as ‘Esav [Hairy] , who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.

¹⁷For you2f 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.

¹⁸For you2f are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,

¹⁹And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which [voice] they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:

²⁰(For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:

²¹And so terrible was the sight, [that] Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters] said, I exceedingly fear and quake)

²²But you2f are come unto mount Tziyon [a parched place] [Lofty] , and unto the city of the living God-The Father, the heavenly Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] , and to an innumerable company of angels,

²³To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God-The Father the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,

²⁴And to Yeshua [God is Salvation] the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaks better things than [that of] Hevel (heardsman) .

²⁵See that you2f refuse not him that speaks. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke on earth, much more [shall not] we [escape] , if we turn away from him that [speaks] from heaven:

²⁶Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he has promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.

²⁷And 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.

²⁸For what reason we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God-The Father acceptably with reverence and godly fear:

²⁹For our God-The Father [is] a consuming fire.