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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=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Hebrews 12 ISV</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="../">ISV</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 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">International Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/isv/esv/hebrews/12.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="heading">We Must Look Off to Jesus</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/12-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Therefore, having so vast a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, and throwing off everything that hinders us and especially the sin that so easily entangles<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="12:1 Other mss. read distracts">a</a></span> us, let us keep running with endurance the race set before us, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/12-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>fixing our attention on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of the faith, who, in view of<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="12:2 Or instead">b</a></span> the joy set before him, endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.</p> <p class="heading">The Father Disciplines Us</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/12-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Think about the one who endured such hostility from sinners, so that you may not become tired and give up. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/12-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="12:4 The Gk. lacks the point of shedding your">c</a></span> blood. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/12-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>You have forgotten the encouragement that is addressed to you as sons:</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop">“My son, do not think lightly of the Lord’s<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="12:5 MT source citation reads LORD">d</a></span> discipline</p> <p class="poetry2">or give up when you are corrected by him.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/12-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>For the Lord<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="12:6 MT source citation reads LORD">e</a></span> disciplines the one he loves,</p> <p class="poetry2 marginbot">and he punishes<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="12:6 Or whips">f</a></span> every son he accepts.”<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="12:6 Cf. Prov 3:11-12">g</a></span> </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/12-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>What you endure disciplines you: God is treating you as sons. Is there a son whom his father does not discipline? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/12-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Now if you are without any discipline, in which all sons share, then you are illegitimate and not God’s<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="12:8 Lit. his">h</a></span> sons. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/12-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Furthermore, we had earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them for it. We should submit even more to the Father of our spirits and live, shouldn’t we? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/12-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>For a short time they disciplined us as they thought best, but God<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="12:10 Lit. he">i</a></span> does it for our good, so that we may share in his holiness. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/12-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, for those who have been trained by it, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace.</p> <p class="heading">Live as God’s People</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/12-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Therefore, strengthen your tired arms and your weak knees, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/12-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>and straighten the paths of your life,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="12:13 Lit. feet">j</a></span> so that your lameness may not become worse, but instead may be healed.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/12-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Pursue peace with everyone, as well as holiness, without which no one will see the Lord. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/12-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up and causes you trouble, or many of you will become defiled. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/12-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>No one should be immoral or godless like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/12-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>For you know that afterwards, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected because he could not find any opportunity to repent, even though he begged to repent<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="12:17 Lit. begged for it">k</a></span> with tears.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/12-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>You have not come to something<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="12:18 Other mss. read to a mountain">l</a></span> that can be touched, to a blazing fire, to darkness, to gloom, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/12-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>to a trumpet’s blast, or to a voice that made the hearers beg that not another word be spoken to them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/12-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>For they could not endure the command that was given: “If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned to death.”<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="12:20 Cf. Exod 19:12-13">m</a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/12-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Indeed, the sight was so terrifying that Moses said, “I am trembling with fear.”<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="12:21 Cf. Deut 9:19">n</a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/12-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Instead, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, to tens of thousands of angels joyfully gathered together, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/12-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>to the assembly<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="12:23 Or church">o</a></span> of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to a judge who is the God of all, to the spirits of righteous people who have been made perfect, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/12-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better message than Abel’s.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/12-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>See to it that you do not ignore the one who is speaking. For if the hearers<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="12:25 Lit. if they">p</a></span> did not escape when they ignored the one who warned them on earth, how much less will we escape<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="12:25 The Gk. lacks escape">q</a></span> if we turn away from the one who is from heaven! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/12-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, “Once more I will shake not only the earth but also heaven.”<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="12:26 Cf. Hag 2:6">r</a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/12-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>The expression “once more”<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="12:27 Cf. Hag 2:6">s</a></span> signifies the removal of what can be shaken, that is, what he has made, so that what cannot be shaken may remain. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/12-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful and worship God in reverence and fear in a way that pleases him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/12-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>For “our God is an all-consuming fire.”<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="12:29 Cf. Deut 4:24">t</a></span> </p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn1"><span class="fnb">a</span> 12:1 Other mss. read <i>distracts</i><br /><span class="fnb">b</span> 12:2 Or <i>instead</i><br /><span class="fnb">c</span> 12:4 The Gk. lacks <i>the point of shedding your</i><br /><span class="fnb">d</span> 12:5 MT source citation reads <i>LORD</i><br /><span class="fnb">e</span> 12:6 MT source citation reads <i>LORD</i><br /><span class="fnb">f</span> 12:6 Or <i>whips</i><br /><span class="fnb">g</span> 12:6 Cf. Prov 3:11-12<br /><span class="fnb">h</span> 12:8 Lit. <i>his</i><br /><span class="fnb">i</span> 12:10 Lit. <i>he</i><br /><span class="fnb">j</span> 12:13 Lit. <i>feet</i><br /><span class="fnb">k</span> 12:17 Lit. <i>begged for it</i><br /><span class="fnb">l</span> 12:18 Other mss. read <i>to a mountain</i><br /><span class="fnb">m</span> 12:20 Cf. Exod 19:12-13<br /><span class="fnb">n</span> 12:21 Cf. Deut 9:19<br /><span class="fnb">o</span> 12:23 Or <i>church</i><br /><span class="fnb">p</span> 12:25 Lit. <i>if they</i><br /><span class="fnb">q</span> 12:25 The Gk. lacks <i>escape</i><br /><span class="fnb">r</span> 12:26 Cf. Hag 2:6<br /><span class="fnb">s</span> 12:27 Cf. Hag 2:6<br /><span class="fnb">t</span> 12:29 Cf. 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