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1 Therefore, we also, having such a great cloud of witnesses surrounding us, laying aside every weight and the easily entangling sin, let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 Looking unto Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 Consider him who has endured such opposition from sinners against himself, so that you do not become weary and lose heart in your souls. 4 You have not yet resisted to the point of blood in your struggle against sin. 5 And you have been called to the encouragement, which speaks to you as sons, "My son, do not despise the Lord's discipline, nor faint when reproved by him." 6 For whom the Lord loves, He disciplines, and He scourges every son whom He receives. 7 Endure for discipline; God treats you as sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline? 8 But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons. 9 Then we had earthly fathers as instructors, and we respected them; will we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live? 10 Some were educating for a few days according to what seemed good to them, but he aimed at the benefit of partaking in his holiness. 11 But every discipline at the present does not seem to be a cause of joy but of grief; yet later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. 12 Therefore, strengthen the weakened hands and the dislocated knees. 13 And make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be turned aside, but rather be healed. 14 Pursue peace with everyone, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord. 15 Looking carefully lest anyone fall short of the Grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and by it many be defiled. 16 Let no one be a fornicator or profane like Esau, who for one meal sold his own birthright. 17 For you know that even afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it with tears. 18 For you have not approached that which can be touched, and that which is burning with fire, and darkness, and gloom, and storm. 19 And at the sound of the trumpet and the voice of words, those who heard it begged that no word be added to them. 20 For I did not bear what was commanded; and if a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned. 21 And so great was the fear of what was imagined that Moses said: "I am terrified and trembling." 22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriad of angels, a festal gathering. 23 and to the assembly of the firstborn who are registered in the heavens, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, 24 And through the mediator of a new covenant, Jesus, and by the blood of sprinkling, better speaking than that of Abel. 25 See that you do not renounce the one speaking; for if those did not escape who renounced the one warning them on earth, much more shall we who turn away from the one from heaven. 26 Where the voice shook the earth then, now it has been promised, saying: Yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heaven. 27 And yet once more it indicates the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. 28 Therefore, receiving an unshakeable kingdom, let us have Grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and fear. 29 For our God is a consuming fire.