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Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside
every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that
is set before us,
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Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of
our
faith; who for the joy that was
set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the
throne of God.
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For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest
ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
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Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
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And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise
not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
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For whom the Lord
loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
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If ye endure chastening, God
dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
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But if ye be
without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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Wherefore
lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
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And make straight paths for your feet,
lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.
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Follow peace with
all
men,
and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
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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;
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Lest there
be
any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat
sold his birthright.
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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.
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For
ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness,
and darkness, and tempest,
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And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words;
which
voice they
that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:
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(For they could not
endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned,
or thrust through with a dart:
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And so terrible was the sight,
that
Moses said, I exceedingly fear
and quake:)
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But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly
Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
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To the general assembly and church of
the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men
made perfect,
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And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that
speaketh better things than
that of
Abel.
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See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they
escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more
shall not
we
escape,
if we turn away
from him that
speaketh
from heaven:
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Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised,
saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
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And this
word,
Yet once more,
signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things
which cannot be shaken may remain.
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Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved,
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