Hebrews 12

Disciples’ Literal New Testament

So Run Your Race With Endurance, Looking To Jesus

12 So-therefore we also^[a], having so large a cloud of witnesses^[b] surrounding us, having laid-aside every weight^[c] and the easily-entangling^[d] sin, let us be running the race being set-before us with endurance ² while looking-away toward the author and perfecter^[e] of the faith^[f]— Jesus— Who endured a cross for^[g] the joy being set-before Him, having disregarded^[h] the shame^[i], and has sat-down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Consider His Endurance

³ For consider^[j] the One having endured such opposition^[k] by sinners against Himself, in order that you may not be weary in your souls, losing-heart— ⁴ you did not yet resist to the point of blood while struggling against sin!

And Have You Forgotten That God Disciplines Those He Loves?

⁵ And have^[l] you completely-forgotten^[m] the exhortation which speaks^[n] to you as sons?: “My son, do not be thinking-lightly^[o] of the discipline^[p] of the Lord, nor losing-heart while being rebuked by Him. ⁶ For the one whom the Lord loves He disciplines, and He whips^[q] every son whom He accepts” [Prov 3:11-12].

God Is Dealing With You As Sons

⁷ You are enduring^[r] [your trials] for discipline; God is dealing with you as with 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^[s], then you are illegitimate^[t] children and not sons.

And God Is Disciplining You For Your Benefit

⁹ Furthermore, we had fathers of our flesh^[u] as discipliners and were respecting them— but shall we not much more be subject to the Father of [our] spirits and live? ¹⁰ For the ones were disciplining us for a few days according to the thing seeming good to them; but the One does so for our benefit^[v], so that we may share-in His holiness.

And His Discipline Will Yield The Fruit of Righteousness

¹¹ And all discipline for the present does not seem to be a thing of joy, but of grief— but later it yields^[w] the peaceful fruit of righteousness to the ones having been trained by it.

Therefore Straighten Up And Walk Straight Paths

¹² Therefore straighten-up^[x] the hands having been slackened^[y] and the knees having been made-feeble^[z], ¹³ and be making straight paths for your feet, in order that the lame part may not be dislocated^[aa] but rather may be healed.

Pursue Peace And Holiness

¹⁴ Be pursuing peace with^[ab] all people, and the holiness without which no one will see the Lord, ¹⁵ while exercising-oversight that someone may not be coming-short of the grace of God; that some root of ^[ac] bitterness growing^[ad] up may not be causing-trouble and many be defiled^[ae] by it; ¹⁶ that someone may not be sexually-immoral or^[af] profane like Esau, who sold his own firstborn-rights^[ag] for one meal^[ah]. ¹⁷ For you know that indeed afterward, while wanting to inherit the blessing, he was rejected— for he did not find a place of ^[ai] repentance— even-though having sought-for it^[aj] with tears.

For You Have Come To The City of God, The Heavenly Jerusalem

¹⁸ For you have not come-to a mountain being touched^[ak], and a fire having been burning, and darkness and gloom and a storm, ¹⁹ and a blast of a trumpet, and a sound of words— of which, the ones having heard begged that a word not be added to them. ²⁰ For they were not bearing the thing being commanded: “If even a wild-animal should touch the mountain, it shall be stoned” [Ex 19:12-13]. ²¹ And so fearful was the thing appearing^[al], Moses said “I am terrified and trembling”. ²² But you have come to Mount Zion; and the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem; and the myriads of angels, a festive-gathering^[am]; ²³ and the church^[an] of the firstborn ones having been registered^[ao] in the heavens; and the Judge, God of all; and the spirits of righteous ones having been perfected; ²⁴ and the mediator of the new covenant, Jesus; and the blood of sprinkling speaking better than Abel.

Do Not Refuse The One Warning From Heaven, But Worship Him With Gratitude

²⁵ Be watching-out that you not refuse^[ap] the One speaking. For if those did not escape, having refused the One warning on earth, much more we will not escape: the ones turning-away-from the One warning from the heavens— ²⁶ Whose voice shook the earth at that time, but now He has promised, saying [in Hag 2:6] “I will shake once more not only the earth, but also the heaven”. ²⁷ And the phrase “once more” indicates the removal of the things being shaken— as of things having been made— so that the things not being shaken may continue. ²⁸ Therefore while receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us have gratitude, through which we may worship^[aq] God pleasingly^[ar], with reverence and awe. ²⁹ For indeed our God is a consuming fire.