|
|
[KJV] chapters
[1],[2],[3],[4],[5],[6],[7],[8],[9],[10],[11][13]
Hebrews 12
1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with
sogreat 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.
|
|
| |
