Chapter 12
Hebrews
12:1 Therefore, seeing we also are encompassed with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily besetteth us, and let us run, with patience, the race that is set before us,
12:2 Looking to YASHUWAH the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the torture stake, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of Elohim.
12:3 For consider him who endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest you* be wearied and faint in your* minds.
12:4 You* have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin.
12:5 And you* have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you* as to children, My son, do not despise the chastening of YASHUWAH, nor faint when you are rebuked by him:
12:6 For whom YASHUWAH loves he chastens, and scourgeth every son whom he receives.
12:7 If you* endure chastening, Elohim deals with you* as with sons: for what son is he whom the father does not chasten?
12:8 But if you* are without chastisement, of which all are partakers, then you* are illegitimate sons and not sons.
12:9 Furthermore, we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?
12:10 For they truly for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, so that we might be partakers of his holiness.
12:11 Now no chastening for the present seems to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who are exercised by it.
12:12 Therefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
12:13 And make straight paths for your* feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.
12:14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see YASHUWAH:
12:15 Looking diligently, lest any man fail of the grace of Elohim; lest any root of bitterness springing up, trouble you*, and by it many be defiled;
12:16 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birth-right.
12:17 For you* know that afterward, when he wished to have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
12:18 For you* have not come to the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor to blackness, to darkness, tempest,
12:19 The sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which those who heard the voice, entreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more.
12:20 For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:
12:21 And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and tremble:
12:22 But you* have come to mount Sion, and to the city of the living Elohim, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
12:23 To the general assembly and assembly of the first-born, who are written in heaven, and to Elohim the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
12:24 And to YASHUWAH the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaks better things than that of Abel.
12:25 See that you* do not refuse him who speaks. For if those did not escape who refused him who spoke on earth, much more we shall not escape, if we turn away from him who speaks from heaven:
12:26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he has promised, saying, Yet once more I do not shake the earth only, but also heaven.
12:27 And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, so that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
12:28 Therefore, receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, by which we may serve Elohim acceptably, with reverence and Elohimly fear.
12:29 For our Elohim is a consuming fire.