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Hebrews 12

1 An exhortation to be patient and steadfast in trouble and adversity, upon hope of everlasting reward. 25 A commendation of the new Testament above the old.
1.Wherefore, *let us also, seeing that we are compassed with so great a ^cloud of witnesses, cast away every thing that apresseth down, and the sin that ^hangeth so fast on: let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
2.bLooking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross, and despised the shame, and is set at the right hand of the throne of God.
3.Consider therefore him that endured such speaking against of sinners, lest ye should be wearied and faint in your minds.
4.Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against csin.
5.And ye have forgotten the consolation, which speaketh unto you as unto children, *My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, neither faint when thou art rebuked of him.
6.For whom the Lord loveth, he chasteneth: and he scourgeth every son that he receiveth.
7.If ye endure chastening, God offereth him self unto you as unto sons: for what son is it whom the father chasteneth not?
8.If therefore ye be without correction, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not dsons.
9.Moreover we have had the fathers of our ebodies which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: should we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of fspirits, that we might live?
10.For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure: but he chasteneth us for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
11.Now no chastising for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: but afterward, it bringeth the quiet fruit of righteousness, unto them which are thereby exercised.
12.Wherefore lift up your hands which hang down, and your weak knees,
13.And make straight steps unto your feet, lest gthat which is halting, be turned out of the way, but let it rather be healed.
14.*Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without the which no man shall see the Lord.
15.Take heed, that no man fall away from the grace of God: let no hroot of bitterness spring up and trouble you, lest thereby many be defiled.
16.Let there be no fornicator, or profane person as *Esau, which for a portion of meat sold his birth right.
17.*For ye know how that afterward also when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place to irepentance, though he sought the blessing with tears.
18.For ye are not come unto the *mount that kmight be touched, nor unto burning fire, nor to blackness and darkness, and tempest,
19.Neither unto the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words, which they that heard it, excused them selves, that the word should not be spoken to them any more.
20.(For they were not able to abide that which was commanded, *Yea, though a beast touch the mountain, it shalbe stoned, or thrust through with a dart:
21.And so terrible was the sight which appeared, that Moses said, I fear and quake.)
22.But ye are come unto the mount lSion, and to the city of the living God, the mcelestial Jerusalem, and to the company of innumerable nAngels,
23.And to the congregation of the first born, which are written in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of just and perfect men,
24.And to Jesus the Mediator of the new Testament, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better things then that of *Abel.
25.See that ye despise not him that speaketh: for if they escaped not which refused him, that spake on oearth: much more shall we not escape, if we turn away from him, that speaketh from heaven.
26.Whose voice then shook the earth, and now hath declared, saying, *Yet once more will I shake, not the earth only, but also heaven.
27.And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things, which are shaken, as of things which are made with hands, that the things which are not shaken, may remain.
28.Wherefore seeing we receive a kingdom, which can not be shaken, let us have grace, whereby we may so serve God, that we may please him with reverence and fear.
29.For *even our God is a pconsuming fire.

Notes

1-*.
Rom. 6.4, Ephe. 4.23, Col. 3.8, 1 Pet. 2.1.
1-^.
Or, multitude.
1-^-1.
Or, so easily compass us about.
1-a.
As riches, cares and such like, and so to become Christ’s disciples, by denying our selves, and taking our cross to follow him.
2-b.
As being our mark.
4-c.
Which by reason of our concupiscence assails us on all sides.
5-*.
Prov. 3.11, Rev. 3.17.
8-d.
He concludes that they which refuse the cross, deny to be of the number of God’s children, but are bastards.
9-e.
Which have naturally begotten us.
9-f.
As he does create our spirits without any worldly mean, so he does instruct and maintain them by the wonderful virtue of his Spirit.
13-g.
Their halting partly declares their slowness, and partly their inconstancy in doctrine: therefore they were in danger to be punished.
14-*.
Rom. 12.18.
15-h.
As heresies or apostasy.
16-*.
Gen. 25.33.
17-*.
Gen. 27.38.
17-i.
He was full of despite and disdain, but was not touched with true repentance to be displeased for his sins and so seek amendment.
18-*.
Exod. 19.13 and 20.21.
18-k.
Which might be touched and seen, forasmuch as it was material, but God had commanded that none should touch it.
20-*.
Exod. 19.13.
22-l.
Whence the word of God must come.
22-m.
Which shalbe extended through all the world.
22-n.
By the Gospel we are joined with the Angels and Patriarchs.
24-*.
Gen. 4.10.
25-o.
Which spake but rudely in comparison of Christ, who preached not the Law, but the Gospel.
26-*.
Hag. 2.7.
29-*.
Deu. 4.24.
29-p.
To destroy them that resist him.