Hebrews 12:14

Hebrews 12:14 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
• New International Version (NIV)Make every effort to live in peace with everyone and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord:

Context of Hebrews 12:14

12So be strong as servants of God! If your hands feel weak, lift them up! If your knees are not strong, stand up straight! 13Walk straight in front of you, step by step! Your example will help other Christians to serve God well. People who cannot walk well will not become worse and fall down. Instead, their legs will become strong again. Do everything that you can to live in peace with other people. Make yourself separate from bad things. Nobody will see the Lord unless their life is good and clean. 15Remember that God is very kind. Nobody should refuse to let God help them. Make sure that nobody among you causes trouble so that people turn against God. A person who is angry against God is like poison. He spoils many other people's lives so that God does not accept them. 16Make sure that nobody among you has sex in a wrong way. Be careful that nobody is careless about God's rules, like Esau was long ago. He gave away everything that he would have received as his father's first son. He gave it all away so that he could get only one meal.

Hebrews 12:14 word by word

εἰρήνην διώκετε μετὰ πάντων καὶ τὸν ἁγιασμόν, οὗ χωρὶς οὐδεὶς ὄψεται τὸν κύριον·Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Followδιώκωdiōkō · to pursueG1377
• peaceεἰρήνηeirēnē · peaceG1515
• withμετάmeta · with/afterG3326
• allπᾶςpas · allG3956
• andκαίkai · andG2532
• holinessὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• holinessἁγιασμόςhagiasmos · holinessG38
• withoutχωρίςchōris · withoutG5565
• whichὅςhos hē ho · whichG3739
• no manοὐδείςoudeis · noneG3762
• shall seeὁράωhoraō · to see: seeG3708
• the Lordκύριοςkurios · lord: GodG2962

Cross-references for Hebrews 12:14

• Genesis 13:7Abram's shepherds and Lot's shepherds began to quarrel with each other. (At that time, Canaanites and Perizzites also lived in the land.)
• Psalms 34:14Do good things instead of evil things. Try to bring peace into people's lives.
• Psalms 38:20When I do good things, they do evil things to me in return! I try to do what is right, but they turn against me.
• Psalms 120:6I have lived too long with people that hate peace.
• Psalms 133:1It is good for a family of God's people to live together in peace. Yes! It brings great pleasure!
• Proverbs 15:1If you answer people in a kind way, it stops them being angry. But if you say cruel things, it makes people angry.
• Proverbs 16:7If you live in a way that pleases the Lord, even your enemies will become your friends.
• Proverbs 17:14It is difficult to stop a quarrel once it has started. It is like water that pours out of a broken pot. Stop it quickly!
• Isaiah 11:6When he is king, wolves will live beside lambs! Leopards will lie down with young goats! Young cows and lions will feed together, and a young child will take care of them!
• Matthew 5:9Happy are the people who bring people together to be friends. God will call them his children.
• Mark 9:50Salt is good. But if your salt is not salty any more, you cannot make it salty again. You should be like good salt and love each other. Do not cause trouble among yourselves.’
• Romans 12:18If it is possible, try always to be friends with other people.
• Romans 14:19So then, we should try to live in a way that brings peace. We should try to help each other so that we become stronger as God's people.
• 1 Corinthians 1:10My Christian friends, I tell you this with the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ: ‘Please agree with each other. Do not become separate groups. Be united and think about things in the same way.’
• Galatians 5:22But God's Spirit causes us to live in a different way. We love other people. We are happy and we have peace in our minds. We are patient, kind and good. People can trust us to do what is right.
• Ephesians 4:1Because I serve the Lord, I am here in prison. I really want you to live as God's own people should live. God has called you to come to him. He has chosen you to be his own people.

Commentaries on Hebrews 12:14

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 14Follow peace with all men - Cultivate, as far as you possibly can, a good understanding, both with Jews and Gentiles. , pursue peace with the same care, attention, and diligence, as beasts do their game; follow it through all places; trace it through all winding circumstances; and have it with all men, if you can with a safe conscience. And holiness - ̔· That state of continual sanctification, that life of purity and detachment from the world and all its…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 14Follow peace with all men - Do not give indulgence to those passions which lead to litigations, strifes, wars; see the notes on Romans 14:19. The connection here requires us to understand this mainly of persecutors. The apostle is referring to the trials which those whom he addressed were experiencing. Those trials seem to have arisen mainly from persecution, and he exhorts them to manifest a spirit of kindness toward all - even though they were engaged…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 12-17Verses 12-17 A burden of affliction is apt to make the Christian's hands hang down, and his knees grow feeble, to dispirit him and discourage him; but against this he must strive, that he may better run his spiritual race and course. Faith and patience enable believers to follow peace and holiness, as a man follows his calling constantly, diligently, and with pleasure. Peace with men, of all sects and parties, will be favourable to our pursuit of…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 14People living a holy life have confident hope of seeing the Lord (see 1 John 2:28; 3:21; 4:17).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1414. follow peace with all men--with the brethren especially (Ro 14:19), that so the "lame" among them be not "turned out of the way" (He 12:13), and that no one of them "fail of the grace of God" (He 12:15). holiness--a distinct Greek word from God's "holiness" (He 12:10). Translate here "sanctification." His is absolute holiness: our part is to put on His holiness, becoming "holy as He is holy," by sanctification. While "following peace with all men," we…Read the comment

Topics related to Hebrews 12:14

• Holiness
• Meekness
• Peace
• Perseverance
• Sin

In the dictionaries

• Acceptably
• Aside
• Birthright
• Bitterness
• Carefully
• Chastening
• Cloud
• Contradiction
• Endure
• Finisher

Commentaries on Hebrews 12

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings