Hebrews 12
World English Bible (WEB) • 29 verses
1Therefore 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,
Related2 Timothy 4:7 · 1 Corinthians 9:24-27 · Philippians 2:16 · Luke 21:34 · Hebrews 10:35-39 · Philippians 3:10-14
2looking 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.
3For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.
RelatedGalatians 6:9 · 2 Corinthians 4:16 · Revelation 2:3 · 1 Corinthians 15:58 · Hebrews 12:2 · Hebrews 3:1
4You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin.
Related1 Corinthians 10:13 · Revelation 2:13 · Hebrews 10:32-34 · Matthew 24:9 · Hebrews 12:2 · Revelation 12:11
5You 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;
RelatedProverbs 3:11-12 · Job 5:17-18 · Revelation 3:19 · 1 Corinthians 11:32 · Psalms 94:12 · James 1:12
6for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son whom he receives.”
RelatedRevelation 3:19 · Proverbs 3:12 · Psalms 119:75 · Proverbs 13:24 · Psalms 94:12 · Jeremiah 10:24
7It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline?
RelatedDeuteronomy 8:5 · Proverbs 19:18 · Proverbs 13:24 · Proverbs 29:15 · Proverbs 29:17 · Proverbs 23:13-14
8But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then you are illegitimate, and not children.
9Furthermore, 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?
10For 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.
Related2 Peter 1:4 · Leviticus 11:44-45 · Titus 2:14 · Ezekiel 36:25-27 · Ephesians 5:26-27 · Leviticus 19:2
11All 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.
RelatedRomans 5:3-5 · 2 Corinthians 4:17 · Hebrews 12:5-6 · 1 Peter 1:6 · Hebrews 12:10 · Psalms 118:18
12Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,
13and make straight paths for your feet, so what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.
14Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,
Related2 Corinthians 7:1 · 1 Peter 1:15-16 · 1 Thessalonians 4:7 · Matthew 5:8-9 · 1 Peter 3:11 · Romans 12:18
15looking 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,
RelatedHebrews 3:12 · Deuteronomy 29:18 · Galatians 5:4 · 2 Corinthians 6:1 · 2 John 1:8 · 1 Corinthians 15:33
16lest there be any sexually immoral person or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.
RelatedGenesis 25:31-34 · 1 Corinthians 6:15-20 · Revelation 22:15 · Hebrews 13:4 · Mark 7:21 · Acts 15:29
17For 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.
RelatedProverbs 1:24-31 · Matthew 25:11-12 · Matthew 7:23 · Hebrews 10:26-29 · Hebrews 6:8 · Genesis 27:30-41
18For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm,
RelatedDeuteronomy 4:11 · Exodus 24:17 · Deuteronomy 5:22-26 · Exodus 20:18 · 2 Corinthians 3:9 · Exodus 19:12-22
19the 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,
RelatedDeuteronomy 18:16 · 1 Corinthians 15:52 · Deuteronomy 4:12 · Exodus 20:1-19 · Deuteronomy 4:33 · Deuteronomy 5:3-22
20for they could not stand that which was commanded, “If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned”.
RelatedExodus 19:12-13 · Deuteronomy 33:2 · Exodus 19:16 · Galatians 2:19 · Galatians 3:10 · Romans 3:19-20
21So fearful was the appearance that Moses said, “I am terrified and trembling.”
RelatedExodus 19:16 · Deuteronomy 9:19 · Isaiah 6:3-5 · Exodus 19:19 · Psalms 119:120 · Revelation 1:17
22But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,
RelatedGalatians 4:26 · Philippians 3:20 · Psalms 48:2 · Revelation 14:1 · Isaiah 51:11 · Hebrews 13:14
23to 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,
24to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.
25See 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,
RelatedHebrews 8:5 · Hebrews 2:1-3 · Deuteronomy 30:17 · Hebrews 11:7 · Proverbs 13:18 · Zechariah 7:11
26whose 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.”
27This 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.
Related1 Corinthians 7:31 · Matthew 24:35 · Revelation 21:1 · 2 Peter 3:10-11 · Revelation 11:15 · Psalms 102:26-27
28Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let’s have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,
29for our God is a consuming fire.
RelatedDeuteronomy 4:24 · Deuteronomy 9:3 · 2 Thessalonians 1:8 · Isaiah 66:15 · Hebrews 10:27 · Exodus 24:17
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