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Hebrews Chapter 12|#11 therefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which does so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,#22 Looking 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.|*23 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest you be wearied and faint in your minds.#24 You do not have yet resisted to blood, striving against sin.#25 And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to children, My son, do not despise you the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are rebuked of him:#26 For whom the Lord loves he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.|*27 If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chastens not?#28 But if you be without chastisement, of which all are partakers, then are you bastards, and not sons.#29 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?#210 For they truely for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.#211 Now no chastening for the present seems to be joyous, but grievous: Nevertheless afterward it yielded the peaceable fruit of righteousness to them which are exercised thereby.#212 Therefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;#213 And make straight paths for your feet, lest which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.|*214 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no one shall see the Lord:#215 Looking diligently lest anyone fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;#216 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright.#217 For you 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.|+#218 For you are not come to the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor to blackness, and darkness, and tempest,#219 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:#220 (For they could not endure which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:#221 And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)|*222 But you are come to mount Sion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,#223 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,#224 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaks better things than that of Abel.#225 See that you refuse not him that speaks. 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 speaks from heaven:#226 Whose voice then shook the earth: But now he has promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.#227 And this word, Yet once more, signify the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.#228 Therefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:#229 For our God is a consuming fire.