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Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, laying aside every weight and besetting sin, and with patience the race set before us, |
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in spite of the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. |
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For consider him that endured such hostility from sinners to Himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
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You have not to blood, striving against sin; |
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and have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons: My son! do not despise the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him. |
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For whom the Lord loves He chastens; scourges every son whom he receiveth. |
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If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons. For what son is he whom the father does not discipline? |
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But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. |
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Moreover, [if] we have had fathers of our flesh gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits and live? |
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Those punished us according to his will for a few days; But this man - for profit, that we may share in his holiness. |
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All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; but afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness. |
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Wherefore lift up the hands and the feeble knees; |
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and make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed. |
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Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord. |
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Watch out that no one short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up causes trouble, and by it many be defiled; |
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not to be [between you] any fornicator, or profane person, who would like Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. |
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For you know that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected; I could not change his mind [father], though he sought it with tears.
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You have not come to a mountain that might be touched and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, |
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sound of a trumpet and the voice of words, which I have heard asked to them was no longer the word should |
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For they could not endure that which was commanded, and if a beast touches the mountain, will be stoned to death (or struck by an arrow); |
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And so terrible was the sight, [that] Moses said, `I am in fear and trembling." |
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But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, |
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To the general assembly and church of the firstborn written in Heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, |
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and to the mediator of the new covenant of Jesus, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel. |
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See, you're not him that speaketh. If those are not him that spake on earth did not escape [the punishment], how much more [not] [escape] we, if we turn away from him [speaketh] from heaven, |
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Whose voice then shook the earth; but now he has promised, once more I shake not only the earth but also the heavens. |
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The words 'once more' indicate the change shaken, as of created things, so shaken may remain. |
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So since we are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear, |
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For our God is a consuming fire. |
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