Hebrews 12:1-15

1Therefore, since we have such a great cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also get rid of every weight and entangling sin. Let us run with endurance the race set before us,

2focusing on Yeshua, the initiator and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before Him, He endured the cross, disregarding its shame; and He has taken His seat at the right hand of the throne of God.

3Consider Him who has endured such hostility by sinners against Himself, so that you may not grow weary in your souls and lose heart.

4In struggling against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of bloodshed.

5Have you forgotten the warning addressed to you as sons? “My son, do not take lightly the discipline of Adonai or lose heart when you are corrected by Him,

6because Adonai disciplines the one He loves and punishes every son He accepts.”

7It is for discipline that you endure. God is treating you as sons—for what son does a father not discipline?

8But if you are without discipline—something all have come to share—then you are illegitimate and not sons.

9Besides, we are used to having human fathers as instructors—and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?

10Indeed, for a short time they disciplined us as seemed best to them; but He does so for our benefit, so that we may share in His holiness.

11Now all discipline seems painful at the moment—not joyful. But later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

12Therefore, strengthen the hands that are weak and the knees that are feeble!

13And make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame will not be pulled out of joint but rather be healed.

14Pursue shalom with everyone, and the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.

15See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God; and see to it that no bitter root springs up and causes trouble, and by it many be defiled.