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The Race of Faith

Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,

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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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looking unto Jesus, the [a]author and [b]finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

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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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The Discipline of God

For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls.

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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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You have not yet resisted to bloodshed, striving against sin.

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God Disciplines His Sons

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

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And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons:
“My son, do not despise the [c]chastening of the Lord,
Nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him;

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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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For whom the Lord loves He chastens,
And scourges every son whom He receives.”

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

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If[d] you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten?

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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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But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons.

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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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Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?

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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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For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of His holiness.

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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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Now no [e]chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

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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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Renew Your Spiritual Vitality

Therefore strengthen the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees,

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

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

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

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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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looking carefully lest anyone fall short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled;

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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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lest there be any fornicator or [f]profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright.

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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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For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it diligently with tears.

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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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The Glorious Company

For you have not come [g]to the mountain that may be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness and [h]darkness and tempest,

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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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and the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words, so that those who heard it begged that the word should not be spoken to them anymore.

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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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(For they could not endure what was commanded: “And if so much as a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned [i]or shot with an arrow.”

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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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And so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, “I am exceedingly afraid and trembling.”)

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

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But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels,

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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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to the [j]general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,

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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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to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel.

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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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Hear the Heavenly Voice

See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape who refused Him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from heaven,

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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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whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I [k]shake not only the earth, but also 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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Now this, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken, as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may remain.

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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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Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we [l]may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear.

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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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For our God is a consuming fire.

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For also our God [is] a consuming fire.

Parallel

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Hebrews 12

Hebrews 12