<vn='1'><sn="5105">Wherefore</s> seeing <sn="2249">we</s><sn="2532">also</s> are compassed <sn="*4029">about</s><sn="*2254">with</s> so <sn="5118">great</s> a <sn="3509">cloud</s> of <sn="3144">witnesses</s>, let us lay <sn="659">aside</s><sn="3956">every</s><sn="3591">weight</s>, <sn="2532">and</s> the <sn="266">sin</s> which doth so easily <sn="2139">beset</s> us, <sn="2532">and</s> let us <sn="5143">run</s><sn="1223">with</s><sn="5281">patience</s><sn="3588">the</s><sn="73">race</s> that is set <sn="4295">before</s><sn="2254">us</s>, </v>
<vn='2'><sn="872">Looking</s><sn="1519">unto</s><sn="2424">Jesus</s><sn="3588">the</s><sn="747">author</s><sn="2532">and</s><sn="5051">finisher</s> of our <sn="4102">faith</s>; <sn="3739">who</s><sn="473">for</s><sn="3588">the</s><sn="5479">joy</s> that was set <sn="4295">before</s><sn="848">him</s><sn="5278">endured</s> the <sn="4716">cross</s>, <sn="2706">despising</s> the <sn="152">shame</s>, <sn="5037">and</s> is set <sn="2523">down</s><sn="1722">at</s> the right <sn="1188">hand</s> of <sn="3588">the</s><sn="2362">throne</s> of <sn="2316">God</s>. </v>
<vn='3'><sn="1063">For</s><sn="357">consider</s> him that <sn="5278">endured</s><sn="5108">such</s><sn="485">contradiction</s><sn="5259">of</s><sn="268">sinners</s><sn="1519">against</s><sn="848">himself</s>, <sn="3363">lest</s> ye be <sn="2577">wearied</s> and <sn="1590">faint</s> in <sn="5216">your</s><sn="5590">minds</s>. </v>
<vn='4'>Ye have not <sn="3768">yet</s><sn="478">resisted</s><sn="3360">unto</s><sn="129">blood</s>, <sn="464">striving</s><sn="4314">against</s><sn="266">sin</s>. </v>
<vn='5'><sn="2532">And</s> ye have <sn="1585">forgotten</s><sn="3588">the</s><sn="3874">exhortation</s><sn="3748">which</s><sn="1256">speaketh</s> unto <sn="5213">you</s><sn="5613">as</s> unto <sn="5207">children</s>, <sn="3450">My</s><sn="5207">son</s>, <sn="3643">despise</s><sn="3361">not</s> thou the <sn="3809">chastening</s> of the <sn="2962">Lord</s>, <sn="3366">nor</s><sn="1590">faint</s> when thou art <sn="1651">rebuked</s><sn="5259">of</s><sn="846">him</s>: </v>
<vn='6'><sn="1063">For</s><sn="3739">whom</s> the <sn="2962">Lord</s><sn="25">loveth</s> he <sn="3811">chasteneth</s>, <sn="1161">and</s><sn="3146">scourgeth</s><sn="3956">every</s><sn="5207">son</s><sn="3739">whom</s> he <sn="3858">receiveth</s>. </v>
<vn='7'><sn="1487">If</s> ye <sn="5278">endure</s><sn="3809">chastening</s>, <sn="2316">God</s><sn="4374">dealeth</s> with <sn="5213">you</s><sn="5613">as</s> with <sn="5207">sons</s>; <sn="1063">for</s><sn="5101">what</s><sn="5207">son</s><sn="2076">is</s> he <sn="3739">whom</s> the <sn="3962">father</s><sn="3811">chasteneth</s><sn="3756">not</s>? </v>
<vn='8'><sn="1161">But</s><sn="1487">if</s> ye <sn="2075">be</s><sn="5565">without</s><sn="3809">chastisement</s>, <sn="3739">whereof</s><sn="3956">all</s><sn="1096">are</s><sn="3353">partakers</s>, <sn="686">then</s><sn="2075">are</s> ye <sn="3541">bastards</s>, <sn="2532">and</s><sn="3756">not</s><sn="5207">sons</s>. </v>
<vn='9'><sn="1534">Furthermore</s> we have <sn="2192">had</s><sn="3962">fathers</s> of <sn="2257">our</s><sn="4561">flesh</s> which <sn="*3810">corrected</s> us, <sn="2532">and</s> we gave them <sn="1788">reverence</s>: shall we <sn="3756">not</s><sn="4183">much</s><sn="3123">rather</s> be in <sn="5293">subjection</s> unto <sn="3588">the</s><sn="3962">Father</s> of <sn="4151">spirits</s>, <sn="2532">and</s><sn="2198">live</s>? </v>
<vn='10'><sn="1063">For</s><sn="3588">they</s><sn="3303">verily</s><sn="4314">for</s> a <sn="3641">few</s><sn="2250">days</s><sn="3811">chastened</s> us <sn="2596">after</s> their <sn="848">own</s><sn="1380">pleasure</s>; <sn="1161">but</s><sn="3588">he</s><sn="1909">for</s> our <sn="4851">profit</s>, that we might be <sn="3335">partakers</s> of <sn="846">his</s><sn="41">holiness</s>. </v>
<vn='11'><sn="1161">Now</s><sn="3956 3756">no</s><sn="3809">chastening</s><sn="4314">for</s><sn="3588">the</s><sn="3918">present</s><sn="1380">seemeth</s> to <sn="1511">be</s><sn="5479">joyous</s>, <sn="235">but</s><sn="3077">grievous</s>: <sn="1161">nevertheless</s><sn="5305">afterward</s> it <sn="591">yieldeth</s> the <sn="1516">peaceable</s><sn="2590">fruit</s> of <sn="1343">righteousness</s> unto them which are <sn="1128">exercised</s><sn="1223 846">thereby</s>. </v>
<vn='12'><sn="1352">Wherefore</s> lift <sn="461">up</s> the <sn="5495">hands</s><sn="3588">which</s> hang <sn="3935">down</s>, <sn="2532">and</s><sn="3588">the</s><sn="3886">feeble</s><sn="1119">knees</s>; </v>
<vn='13'><sn="2532">And</s><sn="4160">make</s><sn="3717">straight</s><sn="5163">paths</s> for <sn="5216">your</s><sn="4228">feet</s>, <sn="3363">lest</s> that which is <sn="5560">lame</s> be turned out of the <sn="1624">way</s>; <sn="1161">but</s> let it <sn="3123">rather</s> be <sn="2390">healed</s>. </v>
<vn='14'><sn="1377">Follow</s><sn="1515">peace</s><sn="3326">with</s><sn="3956">all</s> men, <sn="2532">and</s><sn="38">holiness</s>, <sn="5565">without</s><sn="3739">which</s> no <sn="3762">man</s> shall <sn="3700">see</s><sn="3588">the</s><sn="2962">Lord</s>: </v>
<vn='15'>Looking <sn="1983">diligently</s><sn="3361">lest</s> any <sn="5100">man</s><sn="5302">fail</s><sn="575">of</s><sn="3588">the</s><sn="5485">grace</s> of <sn="2316">God</s>; <sn="3361">lest</s><sn="5100">any</s><sn="4491">root</s> of <sn="4088">bitterness</s><sn="5453">springing</s><sn="507">up</s><sn="1776">trouble</s> you, <sn="2532">and</s><sn="1223 5026">thereby</s><sn="4183">many</s> be <sn="3392">defiled</s>; </v>
<vn='16'><sn="3361">Lest</s> there be <sn="5100">any</s><sn="4205">fornicator</s>, <sn="2228">or</s> profane <sn="952">person</s>, <sn="5613">as</s><sn="2269">Esau</s>, <sn="3739">who</s><sn="473">for</s><sn="3391">one</s> morsel of <sn="1035">meat</s><sn="591">sold</s><sn="848">his</s><sn="4415">birthright</s>. </v>
<vn='17'><sn="1063">For</s> ye <sn="2467">know</s> how <sn="3754">that</s><sn="3347">afterward</s>, when he <sn="2309">would</s> have <sn="2816">inherited</s><sn="3588">the</s><sn="2129">blessing</s>, he was <sn="593">rejected</s>: <sn="1063">for</s> he <sn="2147">found</s><sn="3756">no</s><sn="5117">place</s> of <sn="3341">repentance</s>, <sn="2539">though</s> he sought it <sn="1567 846">carefully</s><sn="3326">with</s><sn="1144">tears</s>. </v>
<vn='18'><sn="1063">For</s> ye are <sn="3756">not</s><sn="4334">come</s> unto the <sn="3735">mount</s> that might be <sn="5584">touched</s>, <sn="2532">and</s> that <sn="2545">burned</s> with <sn="4442">fire</s>, <sn="2532">nor</s> unto <sn="1105">blackness</s>, <sn="2532">and</s><sn="4655">darkness</s>, <sn="2532">and</s><sn="2366">tempest</s>, </v>
<vn='19'><sn="2532">And</s> the <sn="2279">sound</s> of a <sn="4536">trumpet</s>, <sn="2532">and</s> the <sn="5456">voice</s> of <sn="4487">words</s>; <sn="3739">which</s> voice they that <sn="191">heard</s><sn="3868">entreated</s> that the <sn="3056">word</s> should <sn="3361">not</s> be spoken to them any <sn="4369 846">more</s>: </v>
<vn='20'>( <sn="1063">For</s> they could <sn="3756">not</s><sn="5342">endure</s> that which was <sn="1291">commanded</s>, And if so much <sn="2579">as</s> a <sn="2342">beast</s><sn="2345">touch</s><sn="3588">the</s><sn="3735">mountain</s>, it shall be <sn="3036">stoned</s>, or thrust <sn="2700">through</s> with a <sn="1002">dart</s>: </v>
<vn='21'><sn="2532">And</s><sn="3779">so</s><sn="5398">terrible</s><sn="2258">was</s><sn="3588">the</s><sn="5324">sight</s>, that <sn="3475">Moses</s><sn="2036">said</s>, I exceedingly <sn="*1510 1630">fear</s><sn="2532">and</s><sn="1790">quake</s>:) </v>
<vn='22'><sn="235">But</s> ye are come <sn="4334">unto</s><sn="3735">mount</s><sn="4622">Zion</s>, <sn="2532">and</s> unto the <sn="4172">city</s> of the <sn="2198">living</s><sn="2316">God</s>, the <sn="2032">heavenly</s><sn="2419">Jerusalem</s>, <sn="2532">and</s> to an innumerable <sn="3461">company</s> of <sn="32">angels</s>, </v>
<vn='23'>To the general <sn="3831">assembly</s><sn="2532">and</s><sn="1577">church</s> of the <sn="4416">firstborn</s>, which are <sn="583">written</s><sn="1722">in</s><sn="3772">heaven</s>, <sn="2532">and</s> to <sn="2316">God</s> the <sn="2923">Judge</s> of <sn="3956">all</s>, <sn="2532">and</s> to the <sn="4151">spirits</s> of just <sn="1342">men</s> made <sn="5048">perfect</s>, </v>
<vn='24'><sn="2532">And</s> to <sn="2424">Jesus</s> the <sn="3316">mediator</s> of the <sn="3501">new</s><sn="1242">covenant</s>, <sn="2532">and</s> to the <sn="129">blood</s> of <sn="4473">sprinkling</s>, that <sn="2980">speaketh</s> better <sn="2909">things</s><sn="3844">than</s> that of <sn="6">Abel</s>. </v>
<vn='25'><sn="991">See</s> that ye <sn="3868">refuse</s><sn="3361">not</s> him that <sn="2980">speaketh</s>. <sn="1063">For</s><sn="1487">if</s><sn="1565">they</s><sn="5343">escaped</s><sn="3756">not</s> who <sn="3868">refused</s> him that <sn="5537">spake</s><sn="1909">on</s><sn="1093">earth</s>, <sn="4183">much</s><sn="3123">more</s> shall not <sn="2249">we</s> escape, if we turn away <sn="654">from</s><sn="3588">him</s> that speaketh <sn="575">from</s><sn="3772">heaven</s>: </v>
<vn='26'><sn="3739">Whose</s><sn="5456">voice</s><sn="5119">then</s><sn="4531">shook</s><sn="3588">the</s><sn="1093">earth</s>: <sn="1161">but</s><sn="3568">now</s> he hath <sn="1861">promised</s>, <sn="3004">saying</s>, <sn="2089">Yet</s> once <sn="530">more</s><sn="1473">I</s><sn="4579">shake</s><sn="3756">not</s><sn="3588">the</s><sn="1093">earth</s><sn="3440">only</s>, <sn="235">but</s><sn="2532">also</s><sn="3772">heaven</s>. </v>
<vn='27'><sn="1161">And</s><sn="3588">this</s> word, <sn="2089">Yet</s> once <sn="530">more</s>, <sn="1213">signifieth</s><sn="3588">the</s><sn="3331">removing</s> of those things that are <sn="4531">shaken</s>, <sn="5613">as</s> of things that are <sn="4160">made</s>, <sn="2443">that</s> those things which cannot be <sn="4531 3361">shaken</s> may <sn="3306">remain</s>. </v>
<vn='28'><sn="1352">Wherefore</s> we <sn="3880">receiving</s> a <sn="932">kingdom</s> which cannot be <sn="761">moved</s>, let us <sn="2192">have</s><sn="5485">grace</s>, <sn="1223 3739">whereby</s> we may <sn="3000">serve</s><sn="2316">God</s><sn="2102">acceptably</s><sn="3326">with</s><sn="127">reverence</s><sn="2532">and</s> godly <sn="2124">fear</s>: </v>
<vn='29'><sn="1063">For</s><sn="2257">our</s><sn="2316">God</s> is a <sn="2654">consuming</s><sn="4442">fire</s>. </v>