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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Hebrews 12 Mace New Testament</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/hebrews/12.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/hebrews/12-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">Mace</a> > Hebrews 12</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../hebrews/11.htm" title="Hebrews 11">◄</a> Hebrews 12 <a href="../hebrews/13.htm" title="Hebrews 13">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Mace New Testament</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/hebrews/12-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">A Call to Endurance<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../2_timothy/2.htm">2 Timothy 2:1–13</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Wherefore, since we are surrounded with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every incumbrance, and the sin which does so easily embarrass us, and let us pursue with constancy the course that is proposed to us: <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>having Jesus in our view, 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 on the right hand of the throne of God.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>for you should consider how he endured such opposition from sinners against himself, lest ye be tired out, and quite despond.<p> <A name="5"></a><p class="hdg">God Disciplines His Sons<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>You have not yet resisted unto death, striving against sin.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>have you forgot the exhortation which is address'd to you, as to children? "my son, despise not thou the chastning of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>for whom the Lord loveth, he chastises, and scourgeth every son whom he receives."<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>if you are to endure chastisement, God treats you as his children: for where's the son whom his father does not chastise? <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>but if you were exempted from that discipline which others are subject to, then are you bastards, and not sons. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>when our natural parents corrected us, we gave them reverence: is it not much more reasonable to be in subjection to the father of spirits, in order to have life? <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>their discipline was temporary, and the effect of humour; whereas God chastises us for our advantage, to make us partakers of his holiness. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>'tis true, all correction at first is far from appearing agreeable, yet afterward it produces the agreeable fruits of virtue in those who are exercised thereby.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Wherefore "strengthen your weak hands and your feeble knees. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>clear the way for your feet, lest that which is lame should be quite out of joint, instead of being redress'd."<p> <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><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>seek peace with all men, and sanctity of life, without which no man shall see the Lord: <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>take care not to deprive yourselves of the divine favour: and that no poisonous root spring up, and spread a general infection among you. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>let there be no licentious or profane person, such as Esau, "who sold his birth-right, for a single mess." <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 would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: not being able to make Isaac to retract, though he importun'd him with tears.<p> <A name="19"></a><p class="hdg">An Unshakable Kingdom<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>You do not approach to any thing corporeal, to scorching fire, to smoak, darkness, and tempest, <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>nor to the sound of trumpets, and the voice which pronounc'd such words, that they who heard, intreated they might hear it no more. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>nor could they endure that threat, "if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned." <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>and so terrible was the appearance, that Moses cry'd out, "I tremble with the fright." <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>but you are come to mount Sion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable congress of angels, to the general assembly, <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>the church of the first-born who are enroll'd in heaven, to God the judge of all, to the spirits of just men 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 the new covenant, and to the aspersion of that blood which cries for pardon, and not for vengeance as that of Abel.<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Take care that you be not deaf to him that speaketh: for if they did not escape, who disregarded the oracles pronounc'd on earth, much less shall we escape, if we turn away from him that delivered the oracles from heaven: <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>whose voice then shook the earth: but he has promised to do it now, saying, " yet once more I will shake, not the earth only, but heaven too." <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>and this expression, yet once more" signifies the abolition of those changeable things which were only contriv'd, that what is unalterable might lastingly succeed. <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>since then we are entring into a kingdom which cannot be changed, let us maintain the divine favour, whereby we may serve God acceptably, with reverence and fear. <span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>for "our God is a consuming fire."<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Daniel Mace New Testament (1729)<br><br>Digital Text Courtesy <a href="https://theword.net">TheWord.net Bible Software</a>.<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</a>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../hebrews/11.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Hebrews 11"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" 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