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11:36. And others had trial of mockeries and stripes: moreover also of
bands and prisons.
11:37. They were stoned, they were cut asunder, they were tempted, they
were put to death by the sword, they wandered about in sheepskins, in
goatskins, being in want, distressed, afflicted:
11:38. Of whom the world was not worthy: wandering in deserts, in
mountains and in dens and in caves of the earth.
11:39. And all these, being approved by the testimony of faith, received
not the promise:
11:40. God providing some better thing for us, that they should not be
perfected without us.
Hebrews Chapter 12
Exhortation to constancy under their crosses. The danger of abusing the
graces of the New Testament.
12:1. And therefore we also having so great a cloud of witnesses over
our head, laying aside every weight and sin which surrounds us, let us
run by patience to the fight proposed to us:
12:2. Looking on Jesus, the author and finisher of faith, who, having
joy set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and now
sitteth on the right hand of the throne of God.
12:3. For think diligently upon him that endured such opposition from
sinners against himself that you be not wearied, fainting in your minds.
12:4. For you have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
12:5. And you have forgotten the consolation which speaketh to you, as
unto children, saying: My son, neglect not the discipline of the Lord:
neither be thou wearied whilst thou art rebuked by him.
12:6. For whom the Lord loveth he chastiseth: and he scourgeth every son
whom he receiveth.
12:7. Persevere under discipline. God dealeth with you as with his sons.
For what son is there whom the father doth not correct?
12:8. But if you be without chastisement, whereof all are made
partakers, then are you bastards and not sons.
12:9. Moreover, we have had fathers of our flesh for instructors, and we
reverenced them. Shall we not much more obey the Father of spirits and
live?
12:10. And they indeed for a few days, according to their own pleasure,
instructed us: but he, for our profit, that we might receive his
sanctification.
12:11. Now all chastisement for the present indeed seemeth not to bring
with it joy, but sorrow: but afterwards it will yield to them that are
exercised by it the most peaceable fruit of justice.
12:12. Wherefore, lift up the hands which hang down and the feeble
knees:
12:13. And make straight steps with your feet: that no one, halting, may
go out of the way; but rather be healed.
12:14. Follow peace with all men and holiness: without which no man
shall see God.
12:15. Looking diligently, lest any man be wanting to the grace of God:
lest any root of bitterness springing up do hinder and by it many be
defiled:
12:16. Lest there be any fornicator or profane person, as Esau who for
one mess sold his first birthright.
12:17. For know ye that afterwards, when he desired to inherit the
benediction, he was rejected. For he found no place of repentance,
although with tears he had sought it.
He found, etc... That is, he found no way to bring his father to repent,
or change his mind, with relation to his having given the blessing to
his younger brother Jacob.
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