Hebrews 12 (CNT) — Codex Sacra

¹ So therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses lying around us, laying aside every pretension and easily attention-getting error, with endurance should run the race lying before us, ² looking to Yahshua, the founder and completer of the faith, who for the sake of the joy lying before Him endured the cross, having despised shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of Yahweh. ³ Consider He who has endured such great controversy from wrongdoers in regard to Himself, that you not be wearied, your souls giving way. ⁴ Not yet have you resisted as far as blood, struggling against wrongdoing, ⁵ and you have utterly forgotten the exhortation which with you, as sons He converses: "My son, do not esteem lightly the discipline of Yahweh, nor faint being censured by Him. ⁶ For whom Yahweh loves He disciplines, and He scourges every son whom He receives." ⁷ You endure discipline; as sons Yahweh engages with you. For what is a son whom a father does not discipline? ⁸ But if you are without discipline, of which you all have become partakers, then you are bastards, and not sons. ⁹ Accordingly we have had as disciplinarians our fathers of the flesh and we respect them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of Spirits, and we shall live? ¹⁰ Indeed they for a few days had disciplined in accordance with that which is determined by them, but He for a benefit, for which to have a share in His holiness. ¹¹ Now any discipline for the present seems not to be of joy but of grief, though later returns peaceable fruit of righteousness to those having been trained by it. ¹² On which account you straighten up those drooping hands and flagging knees, ¹³ and you make straight courses with your feet, that the lame not be turned aside, but rather would be healed. ¹⁴ Pursue peace with all, and sanctification - which without no one should see the Prince. ¹⁵ Watching closely that not any are lacking from the favor of Yahweh, "lest any root of bitterness springing up" would trouble you and by it many would be defiled, ¹⁶ nor some fornicator or profane person, as Esau who for one meal sold his own birthright. ¹⁷ For you know that even afterwards, desiring to inherit the blessing he was rejected, for he did not find a place for repentance even though he sought after it with tears. ¹⁸ For you have not approached touching a mountain and being scorched with fire, and in gloom and in darkness and in tempest, ¹⁹ and to a trumpet's peal, and to a sound of words, which those hearing had declined, not a word to be agreed by them. ²⁰ For they did not bear that being commanded: "And if a beast should touch the mountain, he should be stoned." ²¹ And so dreadful was that having appeared, Moses said "I am frightened" and trembling. ²² But you have approached Mount Sion and the city of Yahweh who lives, Jerusalem in the heavens, and to myriads of messengers, to a general gathering ²³ and to an assembly of those first born being registered in the heavens, and to Yahweh judge of all, and to the Spirits of those righteous having been perfected; ²⁴ and to a mediator of a new covenant of Yahshua, and to the blood of sprinkling, speaking better than Abel. ²⁵ Watch that you do not decline He who is speaking. For if they did not escape, deprecating him deliberating upon the earth, much more we, those who turn themselves away from He who is from the heavens, ²⁶ whose voice shook the earth then, but now He has promised, saying: "Yet once will I shake not only the earth, but also the heaven." ²⁷ Now, the "yet once" indicates a removal of those being shaken, as having been made that the things not shaken would remain. ²⁸ On which account taking possession of an unshaken kingdom, we would have favor, through which we would serve Yahweh acceptably with reverence and awe. ²⁹ For our God is also a consuming fire.