1Wherefore 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,[ † ]Colossians 3:81 Corinthians 9:24Galatians 2:2Hebrews 10:39Romans 12:12Hebrews 10:36 2looking 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.[ † ]Luke 24:26Psalms 69:7-19Philippians 2:8Hebrews 2:9Psalms 110:1 3For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.[ † ]Matthew 10:24Galatians 6:9Hebrews 12:5 4Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.[ † ]1 Corinthians 10:13
7If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?[ † ]Deuteronomy 8:52 Samuel 7:14Proverbs 13:24Proverbs 19:18Proverbs 23:13 8But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.[ † ]1 Peter 5:9 9Furthermore 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?[ † ]Job 12:10 10For 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.[ † ]Leviticus 11:44 11Now 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.[ † ]Isaiah 32:172 Timothy 4:8James 3:17-18 12Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;[ † ]Isaiah 35:3 13and make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.
14Follow peace with all men , and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:[ † ]Psalms 34:14Matthew 5:8Hebrews 9:28 15looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you , and thereby many be defiled;[ † ]2 Corinthians 6:1Galatians 5:4Hebrews 4:1Deuteronomy 29:18 16lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.[ † ]1 Corinthians 6:13-18Genesis 25:33 17For 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.[ † ]Genesis 27:30-40
18For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,[ † ]Exodus 19:12-16Exodus 20:18Deuteronomy 4:11Deuteronomy 5:22 19and 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:[ † ]Exodus 20:18-26Deuteronomy 5:25Deuteronomy 18:16 20(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:[ † ]Exodus 19:12-13 21and so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)[ † ]Deuteronomy 9:19 22but ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, 23to 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,[ † ]James 1:18Luke 10:20Genesis 18:25Psalms 50:6Psalms 94:2Philippians 3:12 24and to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.[ † ]1 Timothy 2:5Hebrews 8:6Hebrews 9:15Exodus 24:8Genesis 4:10Hebrews 11:4 25See 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:[ † ]Hebrews 2:2-3 26whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.[ † ]Haggai 2:6 27And 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.[ † ]Isaiah 34:4Isaiah 54:10Isaiah 65:17Romans 8:19-211 Corinthians 7:31Hebrews 1:10 28Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:[ † ]Hebrews 13:15-21 29for our God is a consuming fire.[ † ]Exodus 24:17