Hebrews 12 : King James Version

12 1Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with
so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and
the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience
the race that is set before us, 2Looking unto Jesus 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
at the right hand of the throne of God. 3For consider him
that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye
be wearied and faint in your minds. 4Ye have not yet
resisted unto blood, striving against sin. 5And ye have
forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children,
My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when
thou art rebuked of him: 6For whom the Lord loveth he
chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. 7If
ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what
son is he whom the father chasteneth not? 8But if ye be
without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye
bastards, and not sons. 9Furthermore we have had fathers
of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall
we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and
live? 10For they verily for a few days chastened us after
their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be
partakers of his holiness. 11Now 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. 12Wherefore lift up the hands which
hang down, and the feeble knees; 13And make straight
paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the
way; but let it rather be healed. 14Follow peace with all
men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: 15Looking
diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of
bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
16Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as
Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. 17For
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. 18For ye are
not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with
fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, 19And
the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they
that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any
more: 20(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: 21And so terrible
was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)
22But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the
living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of
angels, 23To 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, 24And to
Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of
sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel. 25See
that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who
refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if
we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven: 26Whose
voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet
once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. 27And
this word, 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. 28Wherefore we receiving a
kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may
serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: 29For
our God is a consuming fire.