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Read Hebrews 12

World English Bible · 29 verses

¹ Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
² looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³ For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁴ You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁵ You have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁶ for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son whom he receives.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁷ It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁸ But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then you are illegitimate, and not children.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁹ Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁰ For they indeed for a few days disciplined us as seemed good to them, but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹¹ All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹² Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹³ and make straight paths for your feet, so what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁴ Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁵ looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you and many be defiled by it,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁶ lest there be any sexually immoral person or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁷ For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁸ For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁹ the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which those who heard it begged that not one more word should be spoken to them,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁰ for they could not stand that which was commanded, “If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned”.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²¹ So fearful was the appearance that Moses said, “I am terrified and trembling.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²² But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²³ to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁴ to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁵ See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁶ whose voice shook the earth then, but now he has promised, saying, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heavens.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁷ This phrase, “Yet once more” signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁸ Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let’s have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁹ for our God is a consuming fire.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.

Scripture: World English Bible, public domain, eBible.org