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Neither should you become weary, while being rebuked by him.”<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>For whomever the Lord loves, he chastises. And every son whom he accepts, he scourges.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Persevere in discipline. God presents you to himself as sons. But what son is there, whom his father does not correct? <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>But if you are without that discipline in which all have become sharers, then you are of adultery, and you are not sons. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Then, too, we have certainly had the fathers of our flesh as instructors, and we reverenced them. Should we not obey the Father of spirits all the more, and so live? <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And indeed, for a few days and according to their own wishes, they instructed us. But he does so to our benefit, so that we may receive his sanctification. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Now every discipline, in the present time, does not seem a gladness, of course, but a grief. But afterwards, it will repay a most peaceful fruit of justice to those who become trained in it.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Because of this, lift up your lazy hands and your lax knees, <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>and straighten the path of your feet, so that no one, being lame, may wander astray, but instead may be healed.<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>Pursue peace with everyone. Pursue sanctity, without which no one shall see God. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Be contemplative, lest anyone lack the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness spring up and impede you, and by it, many might be defiled, <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>lest any fornicator or worldly person be like Esau, who, for the sake of one 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 afterwards, when he desired to inherit the benediction, he was rejected. For he found no place for repentance, even though he had sought it with tears.<p> <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><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>But you have not drawn near to a tangible mountain, or a burning fire, or a whirlwind, or a mist, or a storm, <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>or the sound of a trumpet, or a voice of words. Those who had experienced these things excused themselves, lest the Word be spoken to them. <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 said, and so, if even a beast would have touched the mountain, it would have been stoned. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And what was seen was so terrible that even Moses said: “I am terrified, and so, I tremble.” <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>But you have drawn near to mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, and to the company of many thousands of Angels, <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>and to the Church of the first-born, those who have been inscribed in the heavens, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the just made perfect, <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>and to Jesus, the Mediator of the New Testament, and to a sprinkling of blood, which speaks better than the blood of Abel.<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Be careful not to reject the One who is speaking. For if those who rejected him who was speaking upon the earth were not able to escape, so much more we who might turn away from the One who is speaking to us from heaven. <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Then, his voice moved the earth. But now, he makes a promise, saying: “There is still one more time, and then I will move, not only the earth, but also heaven itself.” <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And so, in saying, “There is still one more time,” he declares the transfer of the moveable things of creation, so that those things which are immoveable may remain. <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Thus, in receiving an immoveable kingdom, we have grace. So, through grace, let us be of service, by pleasing God with fear and reverence. <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">Catholic Public Domain Version<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><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" alt="Hebrews 11" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../hebrews/13.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Hebrews 13"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Hebrews 13" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>