10 11:32And why should I say more? For time would fail me to relate of Gideon and Barak, and Sampson and Jepthah, and David and Samuel and the prophets, 11:33who by faith subdued kingdoms, performed righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, 11:34extinguished the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, became mighty in war, put to flight encampments of foreigners; 11:35women received their dead from a resurrection, others were tortured having not accepted redemption, that they might obtain a better resurrection; 11:36and others had trial of mockings and scourges, and besides of bonds and imprisonment; 11:37they were stoned, they were cut to pieces with saws, they were tried, they died with the death of the sword, they wandered about in sheep-skins and goat-skins, destitute, afflicted, injuriously treated, 11:38of whom the world was not worthy, wandering in deserts and mountains, and in caves and openings of the earth. 11:39And none of these who became martyrs through faith received the promise, 11:40God having provided something better for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
11 12:1Therefore also we, having so great a cloud of witnesses lying around us, laying aside every impediment and sin which entirely surrounds us, let us run with patience the race set before us, 12:2looking to the chief guide and perfecter of the faith, Jesus, who for the joy set before him despised the shame and endured the cross, and sat down on the right hand of God. 12:3For consider him that has endured such a contradiction from sinners, that you may not become faint and weary in your minds.
CHAPTER V.
DIVINE CHASTENING, MOUNT SINAI AND MOUNT ZION, MORAL DUTIES, ETC.
1 12:4You have not yet resisted to blood contending against sin. 12:5And you have forgotten the exhortation which says to you as to sons, My son, despise not the correction of the Lord and faint not when rebuked by him, 12:6for the Lord corrects those whom he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives. 12:7If you endure correction, God deals with you as sons; for what son is there whom his father does not correct? 12:8But if you are without correction of which all are partakers, then you are of foreign birth, and not sons. 12:9Moreover, we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected us and we respected them; shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live? 12:10For they for a few days corrected us as seemed good to them, but he for the best, that we may partake of his holiness. 12:11And no correction seems to be joyful for the present but painful, but afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those exercised by it.
2 12:12Wherefore hold up the hands that hang down, and the feeble knees, 12:13and make straight courses for your feet, that the lame may not be turned out of the way, but may rather be healed. 12:14Follow peace with all men and holiness, without which no one shall see the Lord, 12:15taking care that no one may come short of the grace of God, that no root of bitterness springing up may make trouble and by it many be defiled, 12:16that no one may be a fornicator or unholy person like Esau, who for one meal sold his birthright. 12:17For you know that afterwards, wishing also to inherit the blessing, he was rejected; for he found no place for a change of mind, though he sought it with tears. 12:18For you have not come to a mountain that may be touched, and to a burning fire, and blackness and darkness and a tempest 12:19and the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words, which those who heard desired that the word might not be spoken to them any more,— 12:20for they could not bear what was commanded, And if a beast touches the mountain it shall be stoned; 12:21and so fearful was the sight, that Moses said, I fear and tremble,— 12:22but you have come to Zion, the mountain and city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels in general assembly, 12:23and to the church of the first-born who are enrolled in heaven, and to a judge the God of all, and to spirits of the righteous made perfect, 12:24and to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to a sprinkled blood which speaks better than Abel.
3 12:25See that you refuse not him that speaks; for if they did not escape who refused him that gave answers on earth, much more shall we [not escape] who turn ourselves away from him in heaven; 12:26whose voice then shook the earth, but now it has been promised, saying, Hereafter once for all I will shake not only the earth, but also heaven. 12:27And this, Hereafter once for all, signifies the removal of the things shaken as of things made, that those not shaken may continue. 12:28Wherefore, receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us have grace through which we may serve God acceptably, with piety and fear; 12:29for our God is also a consuming fire.
4 13:1Let brotherly love continue. 13:2Forget not hospitality; for by this some without knowing it have entertained angels. 13:3Remember those bound as bound with them, and those injured as being yourselves also in the body. 13:4Marriage is honorable in all, and married life without blame; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge. 13:5Let your life be without avarice, and be contented with what you have; for he said, I will never leave you, I will never forsake you; 13:6so that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear; what can man do to me?
5 13:7Remember your guides who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the end of their life follow the faith. 13:8Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, to-day, and forever. 13:9Be not carried about with various and strange doctrines; for it is good that the mind should be established with grace, not with aliments, in which those walking are not profited.
6 13:10We have an altar of which those who serve the tabernacle have no right to eat. 13:11For the bodies of those animals whose blood is carried into the sanctuary by the chief priest are burnt without the encampment. 13:12Wherefore also Jesus, that he might purify the people through his blood, suffered without the gate. 13:13Let us therefore go out to him without the encampment, bearing his reproach; 13:14for we have not here a city that continues, but we seek that which is to come. 13:15Through him, therefore, let us offer the sacrifice of praise continually to God, that is, the fruit of lips confessing his name. 13:16And forget not beneficence and liberality; for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.