But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons (12:8)

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? (12:9)

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 (12:10)

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 (12:11)

Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees; (12:12)

And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed (12:13)

Follow peace with all [men], and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: (12:14)

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; (12:15)

Lest there [be] any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright (12:16)

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 (12:17)

For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, (12:18)

And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which [voice] they that heard entreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more: (12:19)

(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: (12:20)

And so terrible was the sight, [that] Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:) (12:21)

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, (12:22)

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, (12:23)

And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than [that of] Abel. (12:24) com1

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: (12:25)

Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven (12:26)

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 (12:27)

Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: (12:28)

For our God [is] a consuming fire (12:29)

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