Hebrews 12:12-17

12Strengthen your tired arms and weak knees.

13Keep walking along straight paths so that your injured leg won’t get worse. Instead, let it heal.

14Try to live peacefully with everyone, and try to live holy lives, because if you don’t, you will not see the Lord.

15Make sure that everyone has kindness  from God so that bitterness doesn’t take root and grow up to cause trouble that corrupts many of you.

16Make sure that no one commits sexual sin or is as concerned about earthly things as Esau was. He sold his rights as the firstborn son for a single meal.

17You know that afterwards, when he wanted to receive the blessing that the firstborn son was to receive, he was rejected. Even though he begged and cried for the blessing, he couldn’t do anything to change what had happened.