Verse-Reference
Reference-Verse
Abbreviate Books
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 Hbr 12:1 |
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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Hbr 12:2 |
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 has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. |
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Hbr 12:3 |
For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls. |
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Hbr 12:4 |
You have not yet resisted to bloodshed, striving against sin. |
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Hbr 12:5 |
And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons: "My son, do not despise the chastening of the LORD, Nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him; |
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Hbr 12:6 |
For whom the LORD loves He chastens, And scourges every son whom He receives." [fn] |
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Hbr 12:7 |
If [fn] 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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Hbr 12:8 |
But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons. |
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Hbr 12:9 |
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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Hbr 12:10 |
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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Hbr 12:11 |
Now no 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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Hbr 12:12 |
Therefore strengthen the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees, |
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Hbr 12:13 |
and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be [dislocated], but rather be healed. |
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Hbr 12:14 |
Pursue peace with all [people], and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord: |
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Hbr 12:15 |
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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Hbr 12:16 |
lest there [be] any fornicator or profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright. |
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Hbr 12:17 |
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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Hbr 12:18 |
For you have not come to the mountain that [fn] may be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness and darkness [fn] and tempest, |
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Hbr 12:19 |
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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Hbr 12:20 |
(For they could not endure what was commanded: "And if so much as a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned or shot with an arrow." [fn] |
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Hbr 12:21 |
And so terrifying was the sight [that] Moses said, "I am exceedingly afraid and trembling.") [fn] |
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Hbr 12:22 |
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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Hbr 12:23 |
to the 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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Hbr 12:24 |
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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Hbr 12:25 |
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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Hbr 12:26 |
whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, "Yet once more I shake [fn] not only the earth, but also heaven." [fn] |
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Hbr 12:27 |
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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Hbr 12:28 |
Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may [fn] serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. |
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Hbr 12:29 |
For our God [is] a consuming fire. |
NKJV Footnotes:
- (12:6) Proverbs 3:11, 12
- (12:7) NU-Text and M-Text read It is for discipline that you endure; God . . . .
- (12:18) NU-Text reads to that which.
- (12:18) NU-Text reads gloom.
- (12:20) NU-Text and M-Text omit the rest of this verse.
- (12:20) Exodus 19:12, 13
- (12:21) Deuteronomy 9:19
- (12:26) NU-Text reads will shake.
- (12:26) Haggai 2:6
- (12:28) M-Text omits may.
