Hebrews 12:1-13

1Let us also therefore, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, laying aside every weight, and sin which so easily entangles us, run with endurance the race that lies before us,

2looking stedfastly on Jesus the leader and completer of faith: who, in view of the joy lying before him, endured [the] cross, having despised [the] shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of 1God.

3For consider well him who endured so great contradiction from sinners against himself, that ye be not weary, fainting in your minds.

4Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, wrestling against sin.

5And ye have quite forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons: My son, despise not [the] chastening of [the] Lord, nor faint [when] reproved by him;

6for whom [the] Lord loves he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.

7Ye endure for chastening, 2God conducts himself towards you as towards sons; for who is the son that the father chastens not?

8But if ye are without chastening, of which all have been made partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

9Moreover we have had the fathers of our flesh as chasteners, and we reverenced [them]; shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

10For they indeed chastened for a few days, as seemed good to them; but he for profit, in order to the partaking of his holiness.

11But no chastening at the time seems to be [matter] of joy, but of grief; but afterwards yields [the] peaceful fruit of righteousness to those exercised by it.

12Wherefore lift up the hands that hang down, and the failing knees;

13and make straight paths for your feet, that that which is lame be not turned aside; but that rather it may be healed.