| 1 | 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 , |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself , lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds . |
| 4 | Ye have not yet resisted unto blood , striving against sin . |
| 5 | 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 : |
| 6 | For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth , and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth . |
| 7 | If ye endure chastening , God dealeth with you as with sons ; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not ? |
| 8 | But if ye be without chastisement , whereof all are partakers , then are ye bastards , and not sons . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down , and the feeble knees ; |
| 13 | And make straight paths for your feet , lest that which is lame be turned out of the way ; but let it rather be healed . |
| 14 | Follow peace with all [men], and holiness , without which no man shall see the Lord : |
| 15 | 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 ; |
| 16 | Lest there [be] any fornicator , or profane person , as Esau , who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched , and that burned with fire , nor unto blackness , and darkness , and tempest , |
| 19 | 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 : |
| 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 : |
| 21 | And so terrible was the sight , [that] Moses said , I exceedingly fear and quake :) |
| 22 | 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 , |
| 23 | 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 , |
| 24 | And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant , and to the blood of sprinkling , that speaketh better things than [that of] Abel . |
| 25 | 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 : |
| 26 | Whose voice then shook the earth : but now he hath promised , saying , Yet once more I shake not the earth only , but also heaven . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved , let us have grace , whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear : |
| 29 | For our God [is] a consuming fire . |
