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Hebrews - ch 12 v 1 - 20
- Let us also therefore, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, laying aside every weight, and sin which so easily entangles us, run with endurance the race that lies before us,
- looking stedfastly on Jesus the leader and completer of faith: who, in view of the joy lying before him, endured the cross, having despised the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
- For consider well him who endured so great contradiction from sinners against himself, that ye be not weary, fainting in your minds.
- Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, wrestling against sin.
- And ye have quite forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons: My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when reproved by him;
- for whom the Lord loves he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.
- Ye endure for chastening, God conducts himself towards you as towards sons; for who is the son that the father chastens not?
- But if ye are without chastening, of which all have been made partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
- Moreover we have had the fathers of our flesh as chasteners, and we reverenced them; shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?
- For they indeed chastened for a few days, as seemed good to them; but he for profit, in order to the partaking of his holiness.
- But no chastening at the time seems to be matter of joy, but of grief; but afterwards yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those exercised by it.
- Wherefore lift up the hands that hang down, and the failing knees;
- and make straight paths for your feet, that that which is lame be not turned aside; but that rather it may be healed.
- Pursue peace with all, and holiness, without which no one shall see the Lord:
- watching lest there be any one who lacks the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it;
- lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one meal sold his birthright;
- for ye know that also afterwards, desiring to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, (for he found no place for repentance) although he sought it earnestly with tears.
- For ye have not come to the mount that might be touched and was all on fire, and to obscurity, and darkness, and tempest,
- and trumpet's sound, and voice of words; which they that heard, excusing themselves, declined the word being addressed to them any more:
- (for they were not able to bear what was enjoined: And if a beast should touch the mountain, it shall be stoned;
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