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Run with Perseverance

Let *us* also therefore, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, laying aside every weight, and sin which so easily entangles us, run with endurance the race that lies before us,

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Jesus, Founder and Perfecter of Our Faith

Therefore, 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,

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looking stedfastly on Jesus the leader and completer of faith: who, in view of the joy lying before him, endured [the] cross, having despised [the] shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

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looking 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.

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For consider well him who endured so great contradiction from sinners against himself, that ye be not weary, fainting in your minds.

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Do Not Grow Weary

Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted.

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God Disciplines His Sons

Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, wrestling against sin.

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In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.

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And ye have quite forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons: My son, despise not [the] chastening of [the] Lord, nor faint [when] reproved by him;

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And 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.

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for whom [the] Lord loves he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.

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For the Lord disciplines the one he loves,
and chastises every son whom he receives.”

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Ye endure for chastening, God conducts himself towards you as towards sons; for who is the son that the father chastens not?

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It 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?

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But if ye are without chastening, of which all have been made partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

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If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.

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Moreover we have had the fathers of our flesh as chasteners, and we reverenced [them]; shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

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Besides 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?

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For they indeed chastened for a few days, as seemed good to them; but he for profit, in order to the partaking of his holiness.

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For 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.

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But no chastening at the time seems to be [matter] of joy, but of grief; but afterwards yields [the] peaceful fruit of righteousness to those exercised by it.

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For 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.

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Wherefore lift up the hands that hang down, and the failing knees;

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Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees,

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and make straight paths for your feet, that that which is lame be not turned aside; but that rather it may be healed.

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and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but rather be healed.

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A Call to Holiness

Pursue peace with all, and holiness, without which no one shall see the Lord:

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Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.

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watching lest [there be] any one who lacks the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble [you], and many be defiled by it;

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See 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;

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lest [there be] any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one meal sold his birthright;

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that no one is sexually immoral or unholy like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal.

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for ye know that also afterwards, desiring to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, (for he found no place for repentance) although he sought it earnestly with tears.

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For 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.

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Our Kingdom Cannot Be Shaken

For ye have not come to [the mount] that might be touched and was all on fire, and to obscurity, and darkness, and tempest,

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A Kingdom That Cannot Be Shaken

For you have not come to what may be touched, a blazing fire and darkness and gloom and a tempest

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and trumpet's sound, and voice of words; which they that heard, excusing themselves, declined [the] word being addressed to them any more:

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and the sound of a trumpet and a voice whose words made the hearers beg that no further messages be spoken to them.

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(for they were not able to bear what was enjoined: And if a beast should touch the mountain, it shall be stoned;

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For they could not endure the order that was given, “If even a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned.”

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and, so fearful was the sight, Moses said, I am exceedingly afraid and full of trembling;)

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Indeed, so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, “I tremble with fear.”

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but ye have come to mount Zion; and to [the] city of [the] living God, heavenly Jerusalem; and to myriads of angels,

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But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering,

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the universal gathering; and to [the] assembly of the firstborn [who are] registered in heaven; and to God, judge of all; and to [the] spirits of just [men] made perfect;

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and to the assemblya of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,

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and to Jesus, mediator of a new covenant; and to [the] blood of sprinkling, speaking better than Abel.

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and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.

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See that ye refuse not him that speaks. For if those did not escape who had refused him who uttered the oracles on earth, much more we who turn away from him [who does so] from heaven:

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See 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.

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whose voice then shook the earth; but now he has promised, saying, Yet once will *I* shake not only the earth, but also the heaven.

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At 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.”

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But this Yet once, signifies the removing of what is shaken, as being made, that what is not shaken may remain.

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This 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.

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Wherefore let us, receiving a kingdom not to be shaken, have grace, by which let us serve God acceptably with reverence and fear.

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Therefore 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,

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For also our God [is] a consuming fire.

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for our God is a consuming fire.

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Hebrews 12

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