1Therefore let us also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight, and the sin which does so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, 2looking to Yeshua the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3For consider him who has endured such hostility of sinners against himself, that you may not grow weary, fainting in your souls. 4You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin: 5and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with sons, My son, do not regard lightly the chastening of Yehovah, Nor faint when you are reproved by him; 6For whom Yehovah loves he chastens, And scourges every son whom he receives. 7It is for chastening that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not chasten? 8But if you are without chastening, of which all have been made partakers, then you are bastards, and not sons. 9Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live? 10For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness. 11All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields peaceable fruit to those who have been trained by it, even the fruit of righteousness. 12Therefore lift up the hands that hang down, and the weakened knees; 13and make straight paths for your feet, that what is lame may not be turned out of the way, but rather be healed. 14Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man shall see the Lord: 15looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and by it the many be defiled; 16lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for a single meal sold his own birthright. 17For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected; for he found no place for a change of mind in his father, though he sought it diligently with tears. 18For you have not come to a mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and to blackness, and darkness, and tempest, 19and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice those who heard begged that no word more should be spoken to them; 20for they could not endure that which was enjoined, If even a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned; 21and so fearful was the appearance, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake: 22but you have come to mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable hosts of angels, 23to the general assembly and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, 24and to Yeshua the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel. 25See that you do not refuse him who speaks. For if they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less shall we escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven: 26whose voice then shook the earth: but now he has promised, saying, Yet once more I will make tremble not the earth only, but also the heaven. 27And this word, Yet once more, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain. 28Therefore, receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may offer service well-pleasing to God with reverence and awe: 29for our God is a consuming fire.