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HébreuxChapitre 12

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Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race set before us,
fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God.
Consider him who endured such hostility from sinners against himself, so that you may not grow weary and lose heart.
In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.
And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? "My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord, and do not lose heart when he corrects you;
for the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and he chastises every son whom he receives."
Endure it as discipline: God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?
But if you are without the discipline that all sons share, then you are illegitimate and not sons at all.
Moreover, we had human fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them. How much more should we submit to the Father of spirits and live!
They disciplined us for a short time as they thought best, but he disciplines us for our good, so that we may share in his holiness.
All discipline seems painful rather than pleasant at the time, but later it yields a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.
Therefore strengthen your drooping hands and your weak knees,
and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be dislocated but rather healed.
Pursue peace with everyone, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord.
See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God, and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many;
that no one is sexually immoral or godless like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal.
For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected; he found no chance to repent, though he sought it with tears.
For you have not come to something that can be touched: a blazing fire, and darkness, and gloom, and a raging storm,
and the blast of a trumpet, and a voice speaking words that made those who heard it beg that no further word be spoken to them.
For they could not bear the command: "If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned."
So terrifying was the sight that Moses said, "I am trembling with fear."
But you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to myriads of angels in festal gathering,
to the assembly of the firstborn whose names are written in heaven, to God the judge of all, to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,
to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.
See that you do not refuse the one who is speaking. For if they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, how much less will we escape if we turn away from him who warns us from heaven!
His voice shook the earth then; but now he has promised, "Once more I will shake not only the earth but also heaven."
The words "once more" indicate the removal of what can be shaken—that is, created things—so that what cannot be shaken may remain.
Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God in a way that pleases him, with reverence and awe;
for our God is a consuming fire.
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