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Hebrews - ch 12 v 1 - 20
- Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us,
- looking to the author and perfecter of faith -- Jesus, who, over-against the joy set before him -- did endure a cross, shame having despised, on the right hand also of the throne of God did sit down;
- for consider again him who endured such gainsaying from the sinners to himself, that ye may not be wearied in your souls -- being faint.
- Not yet unto blood did ye resist -- with the sin striving;
- and ye have forgotten the exhortation that doth speak fully with you as with sons, `My son, be not despising chastening of the Lord, nor be faint, being reproved by Him,
- for whom the Lord doth love He doth chasten, and He scourgeth every son whom He receiveth;'
- if chastening ye endure, as to sons God beareth Himself to you, for who is a son whom a father doth not chasten?
- and if ye are apart from chastening, of which all have become partakers, then bastards are ye, and not sons.
- Then, indeed, fathers of our flesh we have had, chastising `us', and we were reverencing `them'; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of the spirits, and live?
- for they, indeed, for a few days, according to what seemed good to them, were chastening, but He for profit, to be partakers of His separation;
- and all chastening for the present, indeed, doth not seem to be of joy, but of sorrow, yet afterward the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those exercised through it -- it doth yield.
- Wherefore, the hanging-down hands and the loosened knees set ye up;
- and straight paths make for your feet, that that which is lame may not be turned aside, but rather be healed;
- peace pursue with all, and the separation, apart from which no one shall see the Lord,
- looking diligently over lest any one be failing of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up may give trouble, and through this many may be defiled;
- lest any one be a fornicator, or a profane person, as Esau, who in exchange for one morsel of food did sell his birthright,
- for ye know that also afterwards, wishing to inherit the blessing, he was disapproved of, for a place of reformation he found not, though with tears having sought it.
- For ye came not near to the mount touched and scorched with fire, and to blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
- and a sound of a trumpet, and a voice of sayings, which those having heard did entreat that a word might not be added to them,
- for they were not bearing that which is commanded, `And if a beast may touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or with an arrow shot through,'
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