Wherefore seeing we also
are
compassed about
with so great
a cloud
of witnesses
, let
us
lay aside
every
weight
, and
the sin
which doth so easily beset
us , and let us run
with
patience
the race
that is set before
us
,
Looking unto
Jesus
the author
and
finisher
of our faith
; who
for
the joy
that was set before
him
endured
the cross
, despising
the shame
, and
is set down
at
the right hand
of the throne
of God
.
For consider
him that endured
such
contradiction
of
sinners
against
himself
, lest
ye be wearied
and faint
in your
minds
.
Ye have not yet
resisted
unto
blood
, striving
against
sin
.
And ye have forgotten
the exhortation
which
speaketh
unto you
as
unto children
, My
son
, despise
not
thou
the chastening
of the Lord
, nor
faint
when thou art rebuked
of
him
:
For whom
the Lord
loveth
he chasteneth
, and
scourgeth
every
son
whom
he receiveth
.
If ye endure
chastening
, God
dealeth
with you
as
with sons
; for
what
son
is he
whom
the father
chasteneth
not
?
But if
ye be
without
chastisement
, whereof
all
are
partakers
, then
are ye
bastards
, and
not
sons
.
Furthermore we have had
fathers
of our
flesh
which corrected
us , and
we gave them reverence
: shall we
not
much
rather
be in subjection
unto the Father
of spirits
, and
live
?
For they verily
for
a few
days
chastened
us after
their own
pleasure
; but
he for
our profit
, that
we might be partakers
of his
holiness
.
Now no
chastening
for
the present
seemeth
to be
joyous
, but
grievous
: nevertheless
afterward
it yieldeth
the peaceable
fruit
of righteousness
unto them which are exercised
thereby
.
Wherefore lift up
the hands
which hang down
, and
the feeble
knees
;
And make
straight
paths
for your
feet
, lest that
which is lame
be turned out of the way
; but
let it
rather
be healed
.
Follow peace
with
all
men , and
holiness
, without
which
no man
shall see
the Lord
:
Looking diligently lest
any man
fail
of
the grace
of God
; lest
any
root
of bitterness
springing
up
trouble
you , and
thereby
many
be defiled
;
Lest there be any
fornicator
, or
profane person
, as
Esau
, who
for
one
morsel of meat
sold
his
birthright
.
For ye know
how
that afterward
, when he would
have inherited
the blessing
, he was rejected
: for
he found
no
place
of repentance
, though
he sought
it
carefully
with
tears
.
For ye are
not
come
unto the mount
that might be touched
, and
that burned
with fire
, nor
unto blackness
, and
darkness
, and
tempest
,
And the sound
of a trumpet
, and
the voice
of words
; which
voice they that heard
intreated
that the word
should
not
be spoken
to them
any more
:
(For they could
not
endure
that which was commanded
, And if so much as
a beast
touch
the mountain
, it shall be stoned
, or
thrust through
with a dart
:
And so
terrible
was
the sight
, that Moses
said
, I exceedingly fear
and
quake
:)
But ye are come
unto mount
Sion
, and
unto the city
of the living
God
, the heavenly
Jerusalem
, and
to an innumerable company
of angels
,
To the general assembly and
church
of the firstborn
, which are written
in
heaven
, and
to God
the Judge
of all
, and
to the spirits
of just men
made perfect
,
And to Jesus
the mediator
of the new
covenant
, and
to the blood
of sprinkling
, that speaketh
better things
than
that of Abel
.
See that ye refuse
not
him that speaketh
. For
if
they
escaped
not
who refused him
that spake
on
earth
, much
more
shall not we
escape , if we turn away from him
that speaketh from
heaven
:
Whose voice
then
shook
the earth
: but
now
he hath promised
, saying
, Yet
once more
I
shake
not
the earth
only
, but
also
heaven
.
And this word , Yet
once more
, signifieth
the removing
of those things that are shaken
, as
of things that are made
, that
those things which cannot
be shaken
may remain
.
Wherefore we receiving
a kingdom
which cannot be moved
, let us have
grace
, whereby
we may serve
God
acceptably
with
reverence
and
godly fear
:
For our
God
is a consuming
fire
.