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          DASV: Hebrews 12    

1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of
witnesses, we need to lay aside every weight, and the sin that
so easily trips us up, and let us run with endurance the
race that is set before us,
2 looking to Jesus the leader and perfecter of our faith, who
for the joy that was set before him endured the cross,
disregarding the shame, and has sat down at the right hand
of the throne of God.
3 Consider him who endured such hostility from sinners against
himself, so that you do not grow weary and give up.
4 In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted
to the point of bloodshed.
5 Have you forgotten the exhortation that addressed you as sons?
     "My son, do not dismiss the discipline of the Lord,
           or faint when he corrects you,
6 For the Lord disciplines those he loves,
           and punishes every son whom he accepts."
7 Endure it as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For
what son is there whom his father does not discipline?
8 But if you are not disciplined, which all sons get their fair
share of, then you are illegitimate and not really sons.
9 Besides, we had human fathers to discipline us, and we gave them
respect. Should we not all the more submit to the Father of
spirits and live?
10 For they for a short time disciplined us as they thought
best; but he does it for our benefit, that we may share in
his holiness.
11 All discipline seems painful and certainly not joyful at
the moment. But later it produces the fruit of peace and
righteousness for those who have been trained by it.
12 Therefore strengthen your flaccid arms and the weak knees,
13 and make straight paths for your feet, so what is lame may
not be dislocated, but rather healed.

14 Pursue peace with everyone and holiness without which no
one will see the Lord.
15 Make sure no one falls short of the grace of God; so
that no bitter root springs up causing trouble, and by
it many become defiled.
16 Make sure that no one becomes like Esau who was an immoral
and godless person, who for just one meal sold his own
birthright.
17 For you know that later when he wanted to inherit the
blessing, he was rejected; for he found no opportunity to
repent, even though he sought it with tears.
18 For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched,
to a burning fire and to darkness and gloom and a whirlwind,
19 along with the sound of a trumpet, and the voice whose
words made those who heard them beg that nothing further
be spoken to them.
20 For they could not endure that which was ordered, "If
even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned
to death."
21 The scenario was so frightening that Moses said, "I
tremble with terror."
22 But you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the
living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable
angels gathered for festival,
23 to the congregation of the firstborn, who are enrolled
in heaven, and to God, the Judge of all, and to the spirits
of the righteous who have now been made perfect,
24 and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to
the sprinkled blood that speaks of something better than
the blood of Abel.
25 Be careful you do not refuse the one who is speaking.
For if they did not escape when they refused the one who
warned them on earth, how much less will we escape who
turn away from the one who warns from heaven?
26 Then his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised,
"Yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also
the heaven."
27 This phrase, "Yet once more," indicates the removing
of those things that are shaken, that is, the things created,
so that those things that are not shaken may remain.
28 Since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken,
let us give thanks, so that we may offer worship pleasing
to God with reverence and awe.
29 For our God is a consuming fire.

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