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 [fn] 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.
