Heb Hebrews, chapter Epistle to the Hebrews, chapter 12
Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, having put off every weight, and the closely besetting sin, may we run the contest that is set before us through endurance, 1Pe 2:1; Rom 6:12; Eph 4:22; Col 3:8looking to the Author and Perfecter of the faith—Jesus, who, for the joy set before Him, endured a cross, having despised shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God; Luk 23:46; Php 2:8for again consider Him who endured such contradiction from the sinners to Himself, that yöu may not be wearied in yöur souls—being faint. Luk 2:34; Act 28:22; Gal 6:9Yöu did not yet resist to blood—striving with sin; 1Co 10:13and yöu have forgotten the exhortation that speaks fully to yöu as to sons, “My son, do not despise [the] discipline of [the] LORD, nor be faint, being reproved by Him, Rev 3:19for whom the LORD loves He disciplines, and He scourges every son whom He receives”; Pro 3:11; Job 5:17; Psa 94:12if yöu endure discipline, God bears Himself to yöu as to sons, for who is a son whom a father does not discipline? And if yöu are apart from discipline, of which all have become partakers, then yöu are bastards, and not sons. Then, indeed, we have had fathers of our flesh, correctors, and we respected [them]; will we not much rather be subject to the Father of the spirits, and live? Num 16:22; Job 12:10; Ecc 12:7; Zec 12:1For they, indeed, for a few days, according to what seemed good to them, were disciplining, but He for profit, to be partakers of His separation; Mat 7:11; Tit 2:12and all discipline for the present, indeed, does not seem to be of joy, but of sorrow, yet afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those exercised through it. For this reason, lift up the hanging-down hands and the loosened knees; Isa 35:3and make straight paths for yöur feet, so that which is lame may not be turned aside, but rather be healed; pursue peace with all, and the separation, apart from which no one will see the LORD, Rom 12:18; 2Co 7:1; 1Th 4:3observing lest anyone be failing of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up may give trouble, and through this many may be defiled; Deu 29:18; Gal 5:9; 2Ti 2:17lest anyone be a fornicator, or a profane person, as Esau, who in exchange for one morsel of food sold his birthright, Gen 25:33; 1Co 6:15for yöu know that also afterward, wishing to inherit the blessing, he was disapproved of, for he did not find a place of conversion, though having sought it with tears. Gen 27:34For yöu did not come near to the mountain touched and scorched with fire, and to blackness, and darkness, and storm, Exo 19:12and a sound of a trumpet, and a voice of sayings, which those having heard begged that a word might not be added to them, Exo 20:19for they were not bearing that which is commanded, “And if a beast may touch the mountain, it will be stoned, or shot through with an arrow,” Exo 19:13and (so terrible was the sight), Moses said, “I am exceedingly fearful, and trembling.” Deu 33:2; Psa 68:17But yöu came to Mount Zion, and to [the] city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of messengers, Gal 4:26; Rev 3:12to the assembly-place and Assembly of the Firstborn registered in Heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to spirits of righteous men made perfect, Jer 31:9; Luk 10:20and to a mediator of a new covenant—Jesus, and to blood of sprinkling, speaking better things than that of Abel! Gen 4:10; 1Ti 2:5Watch out lest yöu refuse Him who is speaking, for if those did not escape who refused him who was divinely speaking on earth—much less we who turn away from Him who [speaks] from Heaven, Heb 1:2; Heb 2:1; Heb 3:17whose voice shook the earth then, and now He has promised, saying, “Yet once [more]—I shake not only the earth, but also Heaven”; Hag 2:6; Exo 19:18and this, “Yet once [more],” makes evident the removal of the things shaken, as of things having been made, that the things not shaken may remain; Psa 102:26; Mat 24:35for this reason, receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, may we have grace, through which we may serve God well-pleasingly, with reverence and fear, Luk 1:33for our God [is] also a consuming fire.Deu 4:24; Num 11:1; Psa 50:3; Dan 7:9