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For what son is not disciplined by his father? <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>If you do not experience discipline like everyone else, then you are illegitimate children and not true sons. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Furthermore, we have all had earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them. Should we not much more submit to the Father of our spirits and live? <A name="11"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Our fathers disciplined us for a short time as they thought best, but God disciplines us for our good, so that we may share in His holiness. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>No discipline seems enjoyable at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it yields a harvest of righteousness and peace<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">d</a></span> to those who have been trained by it. <A name="13"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Therefore strengthen your limp hands and weak knees.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">e</a></span> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Make straight paths for your feet,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">f</a></span> so that the lame may not be disabled, but rather healed. <A name="15"></a><p class="hdg">A Call to Holiness<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../1_peter/1.htm#13">1 Peter 1:13–21</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Pursue peace with everyone, as well as holiness, without which no one will see the Lord. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God, and that no root of bitterness<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">g</a></span> springs up to cause trouble and defile many. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>See to it that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his birthright. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected. He could find no ground for repentance, though he sought the blessing with tears. <A name="19"></a><p class="hdg">An Unshakable Kingdom<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../exodus/20.htm#18">Exodus 20:18–21</a>; <a href ="../deuteronomy/5.htm#22">Deuteronomy 5:22–33</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>For you have not come to a mountain that<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">h</a></span> can be touched and that is burning with fire; to blackness, darkness,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">i</a></span> and storm; <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>to a trumpet blast or to a voice that made its hearers beg that no further word be spoken. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>For they could not bear what was commanded: “If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned.”<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">j</a></span> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>The sight was so terrifying that even Moses said, “I am trembling with fear.”<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">k</a></span> <A name="23"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Instead, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to myriads of angels <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>in joyful assembly, to the congregation of the firstborn, enrolled in heaven. You have come to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">l</a></span> than the blood of Abel. <A name="26"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>See to it that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if the people did not escape when they refused Him who warned them on earth, how much less will we escape if we reject Him who warns us from heaven? <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>At that time His voice shook the earth, but now He has promised, “Once more I will shake not only the earth, but heaven as well.”<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">m</a></span> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>The words “Once more” signify the removal of what can be shaken—that is, created things—so that the unshakable may remain. <A name="29"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Therefore, since we are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us be filled with gratitude, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and godly fear.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">n</a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>“For our God is a consuming fire.”<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">o</a></span> </p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">2</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> Or <i>pioneer</i> or <i>founder</i><br><span class="fnverse">6</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> Literally <i>and He flogs every son He receives</i>; Proverbs 3:11–12 (see also LXX)<br><span class="fnverse">7</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> GOC, ALT, F35, and TR <i>If you are enduring discipline</i><br><span class="fnverse">11</span> <span class="footnotesbot">d</span> Or <i>it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness</i><br><span class="fnverse">12</span> <span class="footnotesbot">e</span> Isaiah 35:3<br><span class="fnverse">13</span> <span class="footnotesbot">f</span> Proverbs 4:26 (see also LXX)<br><span class="fnverse">15</span> <span class="footnotesbot">g</span> See Deuteronomy 29:18.<br><span class="fnverse">18</span> <span class="footnotesbot">h</span> CT literally <i>to something that</i><br><span class="fnverse">18</span> <span class="footnotesbot">i</span> CT <i>gloom</i><br><span class="fnverse">20</span> <span class="footnotesbot">j</span> Exodus 19:12–13; TR includes <i>or shot through with an arrow</i>.<br><span class="fnverse">21</span> <span class="footnotesbot">k</span> Deuteronomy 9:19<br><span class="fnverse">24</span> <span class="footnotesbot">l</span> TR <i>better things</i><br><span class="fnverse">26</span> <span class="footnotesbot">m</span> Haggai 2:6<br><span class="fnverse">28</span> <span class="footnotesbot">n</span> CT <i>godly fear and awe</i><br><span class="fnverse">29</span> <span class="footnotesbot">o</span> Deuteronomy 4:24<br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, Majrity Standard Bible, MSB is produced in cooperation with <a href=//biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a>, <a href=//discoverybible.com>Discovery Bible</a>, <a href=//openbible.com>OpenBible.com</a>, and the Berean Bible Translation Committee. 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