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1 Where­fore see­ing we also are com­passed about with so great a cloud of wit­ness­es, let us lay aside ev­ery weight, and the sin which doth so eas­i­ly be­set us, and let us run with pa­tience the race that is set be­fore us, 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 is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 For con­sid­er him that en­dured such con­tra­dic­tion of sin­ners against him­self, lest ye be wea­ried and faint in your minds. 4 Ye have not yet re­sist­ed unto blood, striv­ing against sin. 5 And ye have for­got­ten the ex­hor­ta­tion which speaketh unto you as unto chil­dren, My son, de­spise not thou the chas­ten­ing of the Lord, nor faint when thou art re­buked of him: 6 For whom the Lord loveth he chas­teneth, and scour­geth ev­ery son whom he re­ceiveth. 7 If ye en­dure chas­ten­ing, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the fa­ther chas­teneth not? 8 But if ye be with­out chas­tise­ment, where­of all are par­tak­ers, then are ye bas­tards, and not sons. 9 Fur­ther­more we have had fa­thers of our flesh which cor­rect­ed us, and we gave them rev­er­ence: shall we not much rather be in sub­jec­tion unto the Fa­ther of spir­its, and live? 10 For they ver­i­ly for a few days chas­tened us af­ter their own plea­sure; but he for our prof­it, that we might be par­tak­ers of his ho­li­ness. 11 Now no chas­ten­ing for the pre­sent seemeth to be joy­ous, but grievous: nev­er­the­less af­ter­ward it yield­eth the peace­able fruit of righ­teous­ness unto them which are ex­er­cised there­by. 12 Where­fore lift up the hands which hang down, and the fee­ble knees; 13 And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed. 14 Fol­low peace with all men, and ho­li­ness, with­out which no man shall see the Lord: 15 Look­ing dili­gent­ly lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bit­ter­ness spring­ing up trou­ble you, and there­by many be de­filed; 16 Lest there be any for­ni­ca­tor, or pro­fane per­son, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. 17 For ye know how that af­ter­ward, when he would have in­her­it­ed the bless­ing, he was re­ject­ed: for he found no place of re­pen­tance, though he sought it care­ful­ly with tears. 18 For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto black­ness, and dark­ness, and tem­pest, 19 And the sound of a trum­pet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard in­treat­ed that the word should not be spo­ken to them any more: 20 (For they could not en­dure that which was com­mand­ed, And if so much as a beast touch the moun­tain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart: 21 And so ter­ri­ble was the sight, that Moses said, I ex­ceed­ing­ly fear and quake:) 22 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the liv­ing God, the heav­en­ly Jerusalem, and to an in­nu­mer­able com­pa­ny of an­gels, 23 To the gen­er­al as­sem­bly and church of the first­born, which are writ­ten in heav­en, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spir­its of just men made per­fect, 24 And to Je­sus the me­di­a­tor of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprin­kling, that speaketh bet­ter things than that of Abel. 25 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they es­caped not who re­fused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heav­en: 26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, say­ing, Yet once more I shake not the earth on­ly, but also heav­en. 27 And this word, Yet once more, sig­ni­fi­eth the re­mov­ing of those things that are shak­en, as of things that are made, that those things which can­not be shak­en may re­main. 28 Where­fore we re­ceiv­ing a king­dom which can­not be moved, let us have grace, where­by we may serve God ac­cept­ably with rev­er­ence and god­ly fear: 29 For our God is a con­sum­ing fire.