Hebrews 12
12:1Accordingly also, we having so great a cloud of witnesses encompassing us, having put aside every swelling and accessible sin, through endurance let us run the struggle being situated before us,
12:2looking to Jesus the head and perfection of the belief, who, instead of the joy being situated before him, endured the cross, disdaining the shame, and at the right of the throne of God has sat.
12:3For consider the cost by the one enduring such dispute against him by the sinners, that you should not weary fainting in your souls.
12:4Not yet unto blood have you stood firm struggling against sin,
12:5and you have been totally forgotten of the exhortation, which he reasons to you as to sons, saying, O my son, do not have little regard for the instruction of the Lord, nor be enfeebled being reproved by him!
12:6For whom the Lord loves he corrects, and he whips every son whom he welcomes.
12:7If you endure discipline, God brings discipline to you as sons; for who is the son whom a father does not correct?
12:8And if you are without the help of instruction, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons.
12:9So then indeed, of the fathers of our flesh we have correctors, and we show respect; shall we not be much more submitted to the father of the spirits, and we shall live?
12:10For they indeed for a few days, as it seemed good to them, corrected; but he does so for the advantage, for us to share in his sanctity.
12:11But any discipline by indeed the hand does not seem to be joy, but distress; but afterwards it renders peaceable fruit of righteousness to the ones having been exercised by it.
12:12Therefore the weakened hands and the disabled knees re-erect!
12:13And make straight tracks to your feet! that the lame should not be turned aside, but rather should be healed!
12:14Pursue peace with all, and the sanctification! apart from which no one shall see the Lord;
12:15overseeing, lest any lack of the favor of God; lest any root of bitterness germinating upward should be trouble, and through this many should be defiled;
12:16lest there be any fornicator or profane person as Esau, who for one portion of food delivered over his rights of the first-born.
12:17For you understand that also afterwards wanting to inherit the blessing, he was rejected; for no place was found for repentance, though with tears he sought it.
12:18For you have not come forward to the mountain being handled and being kindled with fire, and to dimness, and to darkness, and to storm,
12:19and to the trumpet's sound, and to the voice of utterances, of which the ones hearing asked pardon for the word to not proceed to them;
12:20for they could not bear the giving of orders, saying, And if a beast should touch lightly upon the mountain, it shall be stoned, or shot with an arrow.
12:21And so fearful was the visible display, Moses said, I am frightened and trembling.
12:22But you have come forward to mount Zion, and the city of the living God, heavenly Jerusalem; and to myriads of angels,
12:23to the festival and to the assembly of the first-born having been registered in the heavens, and to God the judge of all, and to spirits of the righteous having been perfected,
12:24and Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, speaking better than the one of Abel.
12:25Take heed that you should not refuse the one speaking! For if those did not flee escaping, refusing the one receiving a divine message upon earth, how much more we the ones turning away the one from heavens,
12:26of whose voice the earth shook then; but now he has promised, saying, Still once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heaven.
12:27And the saying, Still once more, manifests the transposition of the things being shaken, as things being made, that the things not being shaken should abide.
12:28Therefore receiving a kingdom unshaken, we should have favor by which we should serve God pleasantly with respect and veneration.
12:29For even our God is a consuming fire.