Hebrews 12:4-17

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, 1God 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.

14Pursue peace with all, and holiness, without which no one shall see the Lord:

15watching lest [there be] any one who lacks the grace of 2God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble [you], and many be defiled by it;

16lest [there be] any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one meal sold his birthright;

17for ye know that also afterwards, desiring to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, (for he found no place for repentance) although he sought it earnestly with tears.