12Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,G5105G2532G2192G4029G2254G5118G3509G3144G659G2249G659G3956G3591G2532G266G2139G5143G1223G5281G73G4295G22542looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.G872G1519G2424G747G2532G5051G4102G3739G473G5479G4295G846G5278G4716G2706G152G5037G2523G1722G1188G2362G23163Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted.G1063G357G5278G5108G485G5259G268G1519G846G3363G2577G1590G5216G55904In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.G478G3768G478G3360G129G464G4314G2665And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? "My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him.G2532G1585G3874G3748G1256G5213G5613G5207G3450G5207G3643G3361G3643G3809G2962G3366G1590G1651G5259G8466For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives."G1063G3739G2962G25G3811G1161G3146G3956G5207G3739G38587It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?G1487G5278G3809G2316G4374G5213G5613G5207G1063G5101G5207G2076G3739G3962G3811G37568If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.G1161G1487G2075G5565G3809G3739G3956G1096G3353G686G2075G3541G2532G3756G52079Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?G1534G3303G2192G3962G2257G4561G3810G2532G1788G5293G3756G4183G3123G5293G3962G4151G2532G219810For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share his holiness.G1063G3303G4314G3641G2250G3811G2596G846G1380G1161G1909G4851G1519G3335G846G4111For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.G1161G3956G3756G3809G4314G3303G3918G1380G1511G5479G235G3077G1161G5305G591G1516G2590G1343G1128G1223G84612Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees,G1352G461G5495G3935G2532G3886G111913and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but rather be healed.G2532G4160G3717G5163G5216G4228G3363G5560G1624G1161G2390G3123G239014Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.G1377G1515G3326G3956G2532G38G5565G3739G3762G3700G296215See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no "root of bitterness" springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled;G1983G3361G5100G5302G575G5485G2316G3361G5100G4491G4088G5453G507G1776G2532G1223G5026G4183G339216that no one is sexually immoral or unholy like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal.G3361G5100G4205G2228G952G5613G2269G3739G473G3391G1035G591G846G441517For you know that afterward, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no chance to repent, though he sought it with tears.G1063G2467G3754G2532G3347G2309G2816G2129G593G1063G2147G3756G5117G3341G2539G1567G846G1567G3326G114418For you have not come to what may be touched, a blazing fire and darkness and gloom and a tempestG1063G4334G3756G4334G3735G5584G2532G2545G4442G2532G1105G2532G4655G2532G236619and the sound of a trumpet and a voice whose words made the hearers beg that no further messages be spoken to them.G2532G2279G4536G2532G5456G4487G3739G191G3868G3056G4369G3361G4369G846G336120For they could not endure the order that was given, "If even a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned."G1063G5342G3756G5342G1291G2579G2342G2345G3735G3036G2228G2700G100221Indeed, so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, "I tremble with fear."G2532G3779G5398G2258G5324G3475G2036G1630G1510G2532G179022But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering,G235G4334G3735G4622G2532G4172G2198G2316G2032G2419G2532G3461G3223and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,G3831G2532G1577G4416G583G1722G3772G2532G2316G2923G3956G2532G4151G1342G504824and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.G2532G2424G3316G3501G1242G2532G129G4473G2980G2909G3844G625See that you do not refuse him who is speaking. For if they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape if we reject him who warns from heaven.G991G3868G3361G2980G1063G1487G1565G5343G3756G3868G5537G1909G1093G4183G3123G2249G654G575G377226At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, "Yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens."G3739G5456G5119G4531G1093G1161G3568G1861G3004G2089G530G1473G4579G3756G1093G3440G235G2532G377227This phrase, "Yet once more," indicates the removal of things that are shaken—that is, things that have been made—in order that the things that cannot be shaken may remain.G1161G2089G530G1213G3331G4531G5613G4160G2443G3361G4531G330628Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe,G1352G3880G932G761G2192G5485G1223G3739G3000G2316G2102G3326G127G2532G212429for our God is a consuming fire.G2532G1063G2257G2316G2654G4442
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