58:012:009 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
58:012:010 For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
58:012:011 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
58:012:012 Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
58:012:013 And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.
58:012:014 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
58:012:015 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
58:012:016 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
58:012:017 For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
58:012:018 For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,