Hebrews 12:12-21

12So then, strengthen hands that are weak and knees that tremble.

13Cut through and make smooth, straight paths for your feet [that are safe and go in the right direction], so that the leg which is lame may not be put out of joint, but rather may be healed.

14Continually pursue peace with everyone, and the sanctification without which no one will [ever] see the Lord.

15See to it that no one falls short of God’s grace; that no root of resentment springs up and causes trouble, and by it many be defiled;

16and [see to it] that no one is immoral or godless like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal.

17For you know that later on, when he wanted [to regain title to] his inheritance of the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no opportunity for repentance [there was no way to repair what he had done, no chance to recall the choice he had made], even though he sought for it with [bitter] tears.

18For you have not come [as did the Israelites in the wilderness] to a mountain that can be touched and to a blazing fire, and to gloom and darkness and a raging windstorm,

19and to the blast of a trumpet and a sound of words [such that] those who heard it begged that nothing more be said to them.

20For they could not bear the command, “If even a wild animal touches the mountain, it will be stoned [to death].”

21In fact, so terrifying was the sight, that Moses said, “I am filled with fear and trembling.”