Hebrews 12 — YLT
12Verse 1Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us,Verse 2looking to the author and perfecter of faith — Jesus, who, over-against the joy set before him — did endure a cross, shame having despised, on the right hand also of the throne of God did sit down;Verse 3for consider again him who endured such gainsaying from the sinners to himself, that ye may not be wearied in your souls — being faint.Verse 4Not yet unto blood did ye resist — with the sin striving;Verse 5and ye have forgotten the exhortation that doth speak fully with you as with sons, 'My son, be not despising chastening of the Lord, nor be faint, being reproved by Him,Verse 6for whom the Lord doth love He doth chasten, and He scourgeth every son whom He receiveth;'Verse 7if chastening ye endure, as to sons God beareth Himself to you, for who is a son whom a father doth not chasten?Verse 8and if ye are apart from chastening, of which all have become partakers, then bastards are ye, and not sons.Verse 9Then, indeed, fathers of our flesh we have had, chastising [us], and we were reverencing [them]; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of the spirits, and live?Verse 10for they, indeed, for a few days, according to what seemed good to them, were chastening, but He for profit, to be partakers of His separation;Verse 11and all chastening for the present, indeed, doth not seem to be of joy, but of sorrow, yet afterward the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those exercised through it — it doth yield.Verse 12Wherefore, the hanging-down hands and the loosened knees set ye up;Verse 13and straight paths make for your feet, that that which is lame may not be turned aside, but rather be healed;Verse 14peace pursue with all, and the separation, apart from which no one shall see the Lord,Verse 15looking diligently over lest any one be failing of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up may give trouble, and through this many may be defiled;Verse 16lest any one be a fornicator, or a profane person, as Esau, who in exchange for one morsel of food did sell his birthright,Verse 17for ye know that also afterwards, wishing to inherit the blessing, he was disapproved of, for a place of reformation he found not, though with tears having sought it.Verse 18For ye came not near to the mount touched and scorched with fire, and to blackness, and darkness, and tempest,Verse 19and a sound of a trumpet, and a voice of sayings, which those having heard did entreat that a word might not be added to them,Verse 20for they were not bearing that which is commanded, 'And if a beast may touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or with an arrow shot through,'Verse 21and, (so terrible was the sight,) Moses said, 'I am fearful exceedingly, and trembling.'Verse 22But, ye came to Mount Zion, and to a city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of messengers,Verse 23to the company and assembly of the first-born in heaven enrolled, and to God the judge of all, and to spirits of righteous men made perfect,Verse 24and to a mediator of a new covenant — Jesus, and to blood of sprinkling, speaking better things than that of Abel!Verse 25See, may ye not refuse him who is speaking, for if those did not escape who refused him who upon earth was divinely speaking — much less we who do turn away from him who [speaketh] from heaven,Verse 26whose voice the earth shook then, and now hath he promised, saying, 'Yet once — I shake not only the earth, but also the heaven;'Verse 27and this — 'Yet once' — doth make evident the removal of the things shaken, as of things having been made, that the things not shaken may remain;Verse 28wherefore, a kingdom that cannot be shaken receiving, may we have grace, through which we may serve God well-pleasingly, with reverence and religious fear;Verse 29for also our God [is] a consuming fire.