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Hebrews 12 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of Faith

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Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, laying aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 12:2 - [fn]fixing our eyes on Jesus, the [fn]author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
(Pro 3:11, 12 )
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For consider Him who has endured such hostility by sinners against Himself, so that you will not grow weary, fainting [fn]in heart.

The Father’s Discipline

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 12:4 - You have not yet resisted [fn]to the point of shedding blood in your striving against sin.
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 12:5 - And you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons,

“MY SON, DO NOT REGARD LIGHTLY THE DISCIPLINE OF THE [fn]LORD,

NOR FAINT WHEN YOU ARE REPROVED BY HIM;

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FOR THOSE WHOM THE [fn]LORD LOVES HE DISCIPLINES,

AND HE FLOGS EVERY SON WHOM HE RECEIVES.”

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It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 12:8 - But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 12:9 - Furthermore, we [fn]had [fn]earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them. Shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of [fn]spirits, and live?
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 12:10 - For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our benefit, so that we may share His holiness.
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 12:11 - And all discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful, but to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.
(Gen 25:29–34; 27:30–40 )
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Therefore, [fn]STRENGTHEN THE HANDS THAT ARE WEAK AND THE KNEES THAT ARE FEEBLE,

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 12:13 - 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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Pursue peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no one will see the Lord,

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 12:15 - seeing to it that no one falls short of the grace of God; that no ROOT OF BITTERNESS SPRINGING UP CAUSES TROUBLE, and by it many be defiled;
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 12:16 - that also there be no sexually immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal.
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 12:17 - For you know that even afterwards, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought for it with tears.

Contrast of Sinai and Zion

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For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched and to a blazing fire, and to darkness and gloom and whirlwind,

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 12:19 - and to the blast of a trumpet and the sound of words which was such that those who heard begged that no further word be spoken to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 12:20 - For they could not bear what was being commanded, “IF EVEN A BEAST TOUCHES THE MOUNTAIN, IT WILL BE STONED.”
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 12:21 - And so terrible was what appeared, that Moses said, “I AM FULL OF FEAR and trembling.”
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 12:22 - But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of [fn]angels,
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 12:23 - to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the Judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 12:24 - and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood, which speaks better than the blood of Abel.

An Unshakable Kingdom

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See to it that you do not refuse Him who is speaking. For if those did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, [fn]much less will we escape who turn away from Him who warns from heaven.

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 12:26 - And His voice shook the earth then, but now He has promised, saying, “YET ONCE MORE I WILL SHAKE NOT ONLY THE EARTH, BUT ALSO THE HEAVEN.”
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 12:27 - Now this expression, “Yet once more,” indicates the removing of those things which can be shaken, as of created things, so that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 12:28 - Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us [fn]show gratitude, by which we may offer to God an acceptable service with reverence and awe;
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 12:29 - for OUR GOD IS A CONSUMING FIRE.
LSB Footnotes
Lit looking to
Or leader
Lit souls
Lit as far as blood
In OT, Yahweh, cf. Prov 3:11
In OT, Yahweh, cf. Prov 3:12
Lit were having
Lit fathers of our flesh
Or our spirits
Lit make straight
Or angels in festive gathering, and to the church
Lit much rather we will not escape...
Lit have
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