Chapter 12                             

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12: • 1 Therefore we also, being surrounded by a great company of witnesses, have set aside every encumbrance and the easily distracting [consciousness of] sins. Through patient enduring we should exercise ourselves in the great conflict set before us, • 2 looking with purpose into Jesus, the source and the completion of our faith, who, looking instead at the joy and delight set before Him [the Church] endured the cross, thinking nothing of the shame, and sat down inside of the right hand of the throne of God. • 3 Consider fully the One who patiently endured such great contradiction from sinners against Himself, that you should not grow weary to the point of fainting in your souls. 4 You have not yet set the blood towards the antagonizing of sin [i), 5 and you have forgotten the encouragement that He addresses to you as sons, “My Son, do not make light of the training of the Lord, nor become weary or faint when you are convinced by Him. • 6 Indeed, whom the Lord loves, He disciplines, and flogs every son whom He openly welcomes and receives” (Proverbs 3:11-12). • 7 If you patiently endure instruction and training, God is offering you as sons [j]; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline? 8 But if you are without training, of which all have become partakers, then you are bastards and not sons. 9 Furthermore, we have had human fathers who trained us, and we paid attention to them. Shall we not also even more [through faith] place ourselves under the Father of spirits and live? 10 Truly, they trained us for a few days according to what seemed good to them, • but He for our profit with Him, in order to share devotion with Him. 11 Moreover, training for the present does not seem to be fun, but distressing; afterward, however, to those having passed through the exercises, it gives in return the peaceful and profitable fruit of just innocence. 12 Therefore, lift up your drooping hands and your enfeebled knees [k], 13 and make straight paths for your feet [l], that what is lame should not worsen, but rather be healed. • 14 Pursue peace with all, and devotion to God, without which no one will perceive the Lord, 15 looking carefully lest any be falling short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up should crowd against to disturb you, and through this many might be stained [in their story of self], 16 lest there be any fornicator or unfit person among you such as Esau who sold his birthright for a meal. 17 You know also that afterward, wanting to inherit the good speaking [the blessing], he was disqualified and could not find any change of mind, though he sought it with tears. 18 For you have not approached the mountain that could be touched, burning with fire, nor darkness and gloom and storm, 19 nor [have you approached] the echoing of the trumpet, nor a voice of words speaking, towards which those who heard excused themselves, asking not to be addressed with words. 20 For they could not bear being charged that, if even a wild beast should touch the mountain, it would be stoned. 21 And so fearful was that appearance that even Moses said, “I am trembling and greatly afraid.” • 22 But you have approached Mount Zion, and the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem and myriads of angels [everything inside the Most Devoted]. • 23 [You have approached] the festival assembly [m] and the church of the firstborn enrolled in the heavens. [You have approached] God, the Judge of all, and the already perfected spirits of the just. • 24 [You have approached] Jesus, the mediator of the new covenant; and the sprinkling of blood speaking far better things than Abel’s. 25 Take heed lest you excuse yourself from the one speaking [n]. If they did not flee away having refused the one instructing them on earth, how much less could we ever turn away from the one speaking out from the heavens. 26 Whose voice then shook the earth, but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I will shake, not only the earth, but also heaven” (Haggai 2:6). • 27 This “Yet once more,” makes clear that the things being shaken will be changed, as created things, so that those things not being shaken should remain. • 28 Therefore, since we are receiving an unshakeable kingdom, we hold onto and possess fully the grace through which we worship God well-pleasingly, with reverence. • 29 For our God is a consuming fire.

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