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<span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. <span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected <i>us</i>, and we gave <i>them</i> reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? <span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>For they verily for a few days chastened <i>us</i> after their own pleasure; but he for <i>our</i> profit, that <i>we</i> might be partakers of his holiness. <span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees; <span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.</p> <a name="14" id="14"></a><p class="hdg">A Call to Holiness<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../1_peter/1.htm#13">1 Peter 1:13-21</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Follow peace with all <i>men</i>, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: <span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble <i>you</i>, and thereby many be defiled; <span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Lest there <i>be</i> any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. <span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.</p> <a name="18" id="18"></a><p class="hdg">Our Kingdom Cannot Be Shaken<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../exodus/20.htm#18">Exodus 20:18-21</a>; <a href="../deuteronomy/5.htm#22">Deuteronomy 5:22-33</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, <span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which <i>voice</i> they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more: <span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>(For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart: <span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And so terrible was the sight, <i>that</i> Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:) <span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, <span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, <span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than <i>that of</i> Abel.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more <i>shall not</i> we <i>escape</i>, if we turn away from him that <i>speaketh</i> from heaven: <span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. <span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And this <i>word</i>, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. <span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: <span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/12-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>For our God <i>is</i> a consuming fire.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">King James Bible<br /><br />Text courtesy of <a href="http://www.bibleprotector.com/"> BibleProtector.com</a><br /><br />Section Headings Courtesy <a href="http://intbible.com/">INT Bible</a><br />© 2012, Used by Permission<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></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></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpc/hebrews/12-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /><div align="center"><div align="center"><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div></div><br /><br /> </div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="//biblehu.com/botmenubhnm2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>