1Therefore, [since] we also have such a great cloud of witnesses surrounding us, putting aside every weight and _the sin that so easily ensnares us_ , let us run with patient endurance the race that has been set before us,
2fixing our eyes on Jesus, the originator and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, disregarding the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
3For consider the one who endured such hostility against himself by sinners, so that you will not grow weary in your souls [and] give up.
4You have not yet resisted to the point of [shedding your] blood [as you] struggle against sin.
5And have you completely forgotten the exhortation which instructs you as sons? "My son, do not make light of the Lord’s discipline, or give up [when you] are corrected by him.
6For the Lord disciplines the one whom he loves, and punishes every son whom he accepts."
7Endure [it] for discipline. God is dealing with you as sons. For what son [is there] whom a father does not discipline?
8But if you are without discipline, in which all [legitimate sons] have become participants, then you are illegitimate and not sons.
9Furthermore, we have had _our earthly fathers_ who disciplined [us], and we respected [them]. Will we not much rather subject ourselves to the Father of spirits and live?
10For they disciplined [us] for a few days according to what seemed [appropriate] to them, but he [does so] for our benefit, in order that [we] can have a share in his holiness.
11Now all discipline seems for the moment not to be joyful but painful, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness for those who are trained by it.
12Therefore strengthen your slackened hands and your weakened knees,
13and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame will not be dislocated, but rather be healed.
14Pursue peace with everyone, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord.
15Take care [that] no one falls short of the grace of God; [that] no one growing up [like] a root of bitterness causes trouble, and by it many become defiled;
16[that] no one [be] a sexually immoral or totally worldly [person] like Esau, who for one meal traded his own birthright.
17For you know that also afterwards, [when he] wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, because he did not find an occasion for repentance, although he sought it with tears.
18For you have not come to something that can be touched, and to a burning fire, and to darkness, and to gloom, and to a whirlwind,
19and to the noise of a trumpet, and to the sound of words which those who heard begged [that] not [another] word be spoken to them.
20For they could not endure what was commanded: "If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned."
21And the spectacle was so terrifying [that] Moses said, "I am terrified and trembling."
22But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, and to tens of thousands of angels, to the festal gathering
23and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of righteous [people] made perfect,
24and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and _to the sprinkled blood_ that speaks better than Abel’s [does].
25Watch out that you do not refuse the one who is speaking! For if those did not escape [when they] refused the one who warned [them] on earth, much less [will] we [escape], [if we] reject the [one who warns] from heaven,
26whose voice shook the earth at that time, but now he has promised, saying, "Yet once [more] I will shake not only the earth but also heaven."
27Now the [phrase] "yet once [more]" indicates the removal of what is shaken, namely, things that have been created, in order that the things that are not shaken may remain.
28Therefore, [since we] are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us be thankful, through which let us serve God acceptably, with awe and reverence.
29For indeed our God [is] a consuming fire.
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