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