Hebrews Chapter 12 (Index)
001 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,
002 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.
003 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
004 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
005 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:
006 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
007 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
008 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
009 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?
010 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.
011 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.
012 Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
013 And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.
014 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
015 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;
016 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
017 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.
018 For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
019 And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard entreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:
020 (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:
021 And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)
022 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,
023 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,
024 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
025 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:
026 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
027 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.
028 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
029 For our God is a consuming fire.
