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For the joy set out for him he endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext2">looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Think of him who endured such opposition against himself by sinners, so that you may not grow weary in your souls and give up.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">You have not yet resisted to the point of bloodshed in your struggle against sin.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">And have you forgotten the exhortation addressed to you as sons? "My son, do not scorn the Lord's discipline or give up when he corrects you. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">"For the Lord disciplines the one he loves and chastises every son he accepts." <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Endure your suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is there that a father does not discipline?<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But if you do not experience discipline, something all sons have shared in, then you are illegitimate and are not sons.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Besides, we have experienced discipline from our earthly fathers and we respected them; shall we not submit ourselves all the more to the Father of spirits and receive life?<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For they disciplined us for a little while as seemed good to them, but he does so for our benefit, that we may share his holiness.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share his holiness.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Now all discipline seems painful at the time, not joyful. But later it produces the fruit of peace and righteousness for those trained by it.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Therefore, strengthen your listless hands and your weak knees,<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext1">and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but be healed. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext2">and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but rather be healed.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Pursue peace with everyone, and holiness, for without it no one will see the Lord.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext1">See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God, that no one be like a bitter root springing up and causing trouble, and through him many become defiled.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext2">See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no “root of bitterness” springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled;</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext1">And see to it that no one becomes an immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext2">that no one is sexually immoral or unholy like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For you know that later when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no opportunity for repentance, although he sought the blessing with tears.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For you know that afterward, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no chance to repent, though he sought it with tears.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For you have not come to something that can be touched, to a burning fire and darkness and gloom and a whirlwind<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For you have not come to what may be touched, a blazing fire and darkness and gloom and a tempest</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext1">and the blast of a trumpet and a voice uttering words such that those who heard begged to hear no more.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext2">and the sound of a trumpet and a voice whose words made the hearers beg that no further messages be spoken to them.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For they could not bear what was commanded: "If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned."<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For they could not endure the order that was given, “If even a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext1">In fact, the scene was so terrifying that Moses said, "I shudder with fear."<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Indeed, so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, “I tremble with fear.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But you have come to Mount Zion, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, to the assembly<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="btext1">and congregation of the firstborn, who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous, who have been made perfect,<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="btext2">and to the 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,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="btext1">and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks of something better than Abel's does. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="btext2">and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Take care not to refuse the one who is speaking! For if they did not escape when they refused the one who warned them on earth, how much less shall we, if we reject the one who warns from heaven?<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="btext2">See that you do not refuse him who is speaking. For if they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape if we reject him who warns from heaven.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, "I will once more shake not only the earth but heaven too."<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="btext2">At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Now this phrase "once more" indicates the removal of what is shaken, that is, of created things, so that what is unshaken may remain.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="btext2">This phrase, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of things that are shaken—that is, things that have been made—in order that the things that cannot be shaken may remain.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="btext1">So since we are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us give thanks, and through this let us offer worship pleasing to God in devotion and awe.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For our God is indeed a devouring fire. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="btext2">for our God is a consuming fire.</span></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="copy" width="50%"><a href "//netbible.com/">NET Bible copyright © 1996-2006 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. //netbible.com. 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