Therefore seeing we also are surrounded with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
Looking unto Yahusha the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the stake, despising the shame, and is sitting down at the right hand of the throne of Êlôhîym.
For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest you are wearied and faint in your minds.
You have not yet resisted unto blood, struggling against sin.
And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks unto you as unto children, my son, do not despise the correction of Âdônây, nor faint when you are rebuked by him:
For whom Âdônây loves he disciplines, and whips every son whom he receives.
If you endure the correction, Êlôhîym deals with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father does not discipline?
But if you are without correction, where all are partakers, then you are bastards, and not sons.
Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the father of spirits, and live?
For they truly for a few days disciplined us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his sanctity.
Now no correction for the present seems to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it produces the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
Therefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.
Follow peace with all men, and sanctification, without which no man shall see Âdônây:
Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of Êlôhîym; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
Lest there be any pórnos, or profane person, as Êśâw, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright.
For you know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the bârak, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
For you are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard refused that the word should not be spoken to them any more:
(For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:
And so terrible was the sight, that Môsheh said, I exceedingly fear and tremble :)
But you are come unto mount Tsı̂yôn, and unto the city of the living Êlôhîym, the heavenly Yarûshâlaim, and to an innumerable company of angels,
To the general assembly and ekklisía of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to Êlôhîym the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
And to Yahusha the mesítis of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaks better things than that of Hebel.
See that you do not refuse him that speaks. For if they did not escape who refused him that spoke on earth, much more we shall we escape, if we turn away from him that speaks from heaven:
Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he has promised, saying, yet once more I do not only shake the earth, but also heaven.
And this word, yet once more, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
Therefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve Êlôhîym acceptably with reverence and fear:
For our Êlôhîym is a consuming fire.
