12Hebrews 12

1Wherefore, seeing we also are encompassed 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,Select Hebrews 12:1

2Looking to 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.Select Hebrews 12:2

3For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.Select Hebrews 12:3

4Ye have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin.Select Hebrews 12:4

5And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh to you as to children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked by him:Select Hebrews 12:5

6For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.Select Hebrews 12:6

7If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons: for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?Select Hebrews 12:7

8But if ye are without chastisement, of which all are partakers, then are ye bastards and not sons.Select Hebrews 12:8

9Furthermore, we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected [us], and we gave [them] reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?Select Hebrews 12:9

10For 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.Select Hebrews 12:10

11Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness to them who are exercised by it.Select Hebrews 12:11

12Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;Select Hebrews 12:12

13And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.Select Hebrews 12:13

14Follow peace with all [men], and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:Select Hebrews 12:14

15Looking diligently, lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up, trouble [you], and by it many be defiled;Select Hebrews 12:15

16Lest there [be] any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birth-right.Select Hebrews 12:16

17For ye know 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.Select Hebrews 12:17

18For ye are not come to the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor to blackness, and to darkness, and tempest,Select Hebrews 12:18

19And 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:Select Hebrews 12:19

20(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:Select Hebrews 12:20

21And so terrible was the sight, [that] Moses said, I exceedingly fear and tremble:)Select Hebrews 12:21

22But ye are come to mount Sion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,Select Hebrews 12:22

23To the general assembly and church of the first-born, who are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,Select Hebrews 12:23

24And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than [that of] Abel.Select Hebrews 12:24

25See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke on earth, much more [shall not] we [escape], if we turn away from him that [speaketh] from heaven:Select Hebrews 12:25

26Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.Select Hebrews 12:26

27And 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.Select Hebrews 12:27

28Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably, with reverence and godly fear.Select Hebrews 12:28

29For our God [is] a consuming fire.Select Hebrews 12:29