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For the sake of the joy that lay before him he endured the cross, despising its shame, and has taken his seat at the right of the throne of God.<a id="ren65012002-a" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en65012002-a">a</a> <span id="v65012003" class="ver">3</span>Consider how he endured such opposition from sinners, in order that you may not grow weary and lose heart. <span id="v65012004" class="ver">4</span>In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood. <span id="v65012005" class="ver">5</span>You have also forgotten the exhortation addressed to you as sons:</p> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf">“My son, do not disdain the discipline of the Lord<a id="ren65012005-b" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en65012005-b">b</a></p> <p class="sl1">or lose heart when reproved by him;</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v65012006" class="ver">6</span>for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines;</p> <p class="sl1l">he scourges every son he acknowledges.”</p> </div> <p class="pcon"><span id="v65012007" class="ver">7</span>Endure your trials as “discipline”; God treats you as sons. For what “son” is there whom his father does not discipline?<a id="ren65012007-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en65012007-c">c</a> <span id="v65012008" class="ver">8</span>If you are without discipline, in which all have shared, you are not sons but bastards. <span id="v65012009" class="ver">9</span>Besides this, we have had our earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them. Should we not [then] submit all the more to the Father of spirits and live?<a id="ren65012009-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en65012009-d">d</a> <span id="v65012010" class="ver">10</span>They disciplined us for a short time as seemed right to them, but he does so for our benefit, in order that we may share his holiness. <span id="v65012011" class="ver">11</span>At the time, all discipline seems a cause not for joy but for pain, yet later it brings the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who are trained by it.<a id="ren65012011-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en65012011-e">e</a></p> <p><span id="v65012012" class="ver">12</span>So strengthen your drooping hands and your weak knees.<a id="ren65012012-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en65012012-f">f</a> <span id="v65012013" class="ver">13</span>Make straight paths for your feet, that what is lame may not be dislocated but healed.<a id="ren65012013-g" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en65012013-g">g</a></p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">Penalties of Disobedience.</span> <span id="v65012014" class="ver">14</span><a id="ren65012014-h" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en65012014-h">h</a> Strive for peace with everyone, and for that holiness without which no one will see the Lord. <span id="v65012015" class="ver">15</span><a id="rfn65012015-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn65012015-1">*</a> See to it that no one be deprived of the grace of God, that no bitter root spring up and cause trouble, through which many may become defiled,<a id="ren65012015-i" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en65012015-i">i</a> <span id="v65012016" class="ver">16</span>that no one be an immoral or profane person like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal.<a id="ren65012016-j" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en65012016-j">j</a> <span id="v65012017" class="ver">17</span>For you know that later, when he wanted to inherit his father’s blessing, he was rejected because he found no opportunity to change his mind, even though he sought the blessing with tears.<a id="ren65012017-k" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en65012017-k">k</a></p> <p><span id="v65012018" class="ver">18</span><a id="rfn65012018-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn65012018-1">*</a> You have not approached that which could be touched<a id="rfn65012018-2" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn65012018-2">*</a><a id="ren65012018-l" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en65012018-l">l</a> and a blazing fire and gloomy darkness and storm <span id="v65012019" class="ver">19</span>and a trumpet blast and a voice speaking words such that those who heard begged that no message be further addressed to them,<a id="ren65012019-m" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en65012019-m">m</a> <span id="v65012020" class="ver">20</span>for they could not bear to hear the command: “If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned.”<a id="ren65012020-n" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en65012020-n">n</a> <span id="v65012021" class="ver">21</span>Indeed, so fearful was the spectacle that Moses said, “I am terrified and trembling.”<a id="ren65012021-o" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en65012021-o">o</a> <span id="v65012022" class="ver">22</span>No, you have approached Mount Zion and the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and countless angels in festal gathering,<a id="ren65012022-p" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en65012022-p">p</a> <span id="v65012023" class="ver">23</span>and the assembly of the firstborn enrolled in heaven,<a id="rfn65012023-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn65012023-1">*</a> and God the judge of all, and the spirits of the just made perfect,<a id="ren65012023-q" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en65012023-q">q</a> <span id="v65012024" class="ver">24</span>and Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and the sprinkled blood that speaks more eloquently<a id="rfn65012024-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn65012024-1">*</a> than that of Abel.<a id="ren65012024-r" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en65012024-r">r</a></p> <p><span id="v65012025" class="ver">25</span>See that you do not reject the one who speaks. For if they did not escape when they refused the one who warned them on earth, how much more in our case if we turn away from the one who warns from heaven.<a id="ren65012025-s" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en65012025-s">s</a> <span id="v65012026" class="ver">26</span>His voice shook the earth at that time, but now he has promised, “I will once more shake not only earth but heaven.”<a id="ren65012026-t" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en65012026-t">t</a> <span id="v65012027" class="ver">27</span>That phrase, “once more,” points to [the] removal of shaken, created things, so that what is unshaken may remain.<a id="ren65012027-u" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en65012027-u">u</a> <span id="v65012028" class="ver">28</span>Therefore, we who are receiving the unshakable kingdom should have gratitude, with which we should offer worship pleasing to God in reverence and awe.<a id="ren65012028-v" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en65012028-v">v</a> <span id="v65012029" class="ver">29</span>For our God is a consuming fire.<a id="ren65012029-w" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en65012029-w">w</a></p> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references used in this work are taken from the <i>New American Bible, revised edition</i> © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC All Rights Reserved. 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