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Hebrews 12:1-29 (AMP)

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¹ THEREFORE THEN, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses , let us strip off and throw aside every encumbrance (unnecessary weight) and that sin which so readily (deftly and cleverly) clings to and entangles us, and let us run with patient endurance and steady and active persistence the appointed course of the race that is set before us, ² Looking away to Jesus, Who is the Leader and the Source of our faith and is also its Finisher . He, for the joy that was set before Him, endured the cross, despising and ignoring the shame, and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God. ³ Just think of Him Who endured from sinners such grievous opposition and bitter hostility against Himself , so that you may not grow weary or exhausted, losing heart and relaxing and fainting in your minds. ⁴ You have not yet struggled and fought agonizingly against sin, nor have you yet resisted and withstood to the point of pouring out your blood. ⁵ And have you forgotten the divine word of appeal and encouragement in which you are reasoned with and addressed as sons? My son, do not think lightly or scorn to submit to the correction and discipline of the Lord, nor lose courage and give up and faint when you are reproved or corrected by Him; ⁶ For the Lord corrects and disciplines everyone whom He loves, and He punishes, even scourges, every son whom He accepts and welcomes to His heart and cherishes. ⁷ You must submit to and endure for discipline; God is dealing with you as with sons. For what son is there whom his father does not train and correct and discipline? ⁸ Now if you are exempt from correction and left without discipline in which all share, then you are illegitimate offspring and not true sons . ⁹ Moreover, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we yielded and respected . Shall we not much more cheerfully submit to the Father of spirits and so live? ¹⁰ For disciplined us for only a short period of time and chastised us as seemed proper and good to them; but He disciplines us for our certain good, that we may become sharers in His own holiness. ¹¹ For the time being no discipline brings joy, but seems grievous and painful; but afterwards it yields a peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it . ¹² So then, brace up and reinvigorate and set right your slackened and weakened and drooping hands and strengthen your feeble and palsied and tottering knees, ¹³ And cut through and make firm and plain and smooth, straight paths for your feet , so that the lame and halting may not be put out of joint, but rather may be cured. ¹⁴ Strive to live in peace with everybody and pursue that consecration and holiness without which no one will see the Lord. ¹⁵ Exercise foresight and be on the watch to look , to see that no one falls back from and fails to secure God's grace (His unmerited favor and spiritual blessing), in order that no root of resentment (rancor, bitterness, or hatred) shoots forth and causes trouble and bitter torment, and the many become contaminated and defiled by it-- ¹⁶ That no one may become guilty of sexual vice, or become a profane (godless and sacrilegious) person as Esau did, who sold his own birthright for a single meal. ¹⁷ For you understand that later on, when he wanted his inheritance of the blessing, he was rejected (disqualified and set aside), for he could find no opportunity to repair by repentance , although he sought for it carefully with tears. ¹⁸ For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched, that is ablaze with fire, and to gloom and darkness and a raging storm, ¹⁹ And to the blast of a trumpet and a voice whose words make the listeners beg that nothing more be said to them. ²⁰ For they could not bear the command that was given: If even a wild animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned to death. ²¹ In fact, so awful and terrifying was the sight that Moses said, I am terrified (aghast and trembling with fear). ²² But rather, you have come to Mount Zion, even to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to countless multitudes of angels in festal gathering, ²³ And to the church (assembly) of the Firstborn who are registered in heaven, and to the God Who is Judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous (the redeemed in heaven) who have been made perfect, ²⁴ And to Jesus, the Mediator (Go-between, Agent) of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood which speaks , a better and nobler and more gracious message than the blood of Abel . ²⁵ So see to it that you do not reject Him or refuse to listen to and heed Him Who is speaking . For if they did not escape when they refused to listen and heed Him Who warned and divinely instructed them on earth , how much less shall we escape if we reject and turn our backs on Him Who cautions and admonishes from heaven? ²⁶ Then His voice shook the earth, but now He has given a promise: Yet once more I will shake and make tremble not only the earth but also the heavens. ²⁷ Now this expression, Yet once more, indicates the final removal and transformation of all shaken--that is, of that which has been created--in order that what cannot be shaken may remain and continue. ²⁸ Let us therefore, receiving a kingdom that is firm and stable and cannot be shaken, offer to God pleasing service and acceptable worship, with modesty and pious care and godly fear and awe; ²⁹ For our God a consuming fire.


This passage relates to the following topic(s):
(v. 1) Sin / Wickedness / Satan - Throw off everything that hinders
(v. 2) Focus - Fix our eyes on Jesus
(v. 3) Patience / Perseverance / Standing Firm - Consider him who endured such opposition so you will not grow weary and lose heart
(v. 3) Persecution - Consider him who endured such opposition so you will not grow weary and lose heart
(v. 4) Sin / Wickedness / Satan - Struggle against sin, you have not resisted to shedding your blood
(v. 7) Suffering / Hardship - Endure hardship as discipline
(v. 7) Discipling / Correction - Endure hardship as discipline
(v. 14) Peace - Make every effort to live in peace
(v. 15) Anger / Fits of Rage / Bitterness - Allow no bitter root to grow up
(v. 15) Grace - See to it that no one misses the grace of God
(v. 15) Discipling / Correction - See to it that no one misses the grace of God
(v. 16) Purity / Sexual Immorality / Adultery - Sexually immorality is like giving up your inheritance for a meal
(v. 28) Worship - Worship with reverence and awe

This passage relates to the following question(s):
(v. 6) Is the Christian yoke easy or difficult? He punishes everyone he accepts as a son

This passage is referenced in the following quiet time(s):
(v. 1) Purpose Driven Life - Using What God Gave You (2008-06-30)
(v. 1) Purpose Driven Life - Becoming a World-Class Christian (part 3) (2008-07-17)
(v. 1) Prayer of the Righeous - God is Preparing a Place (part I) (2013-03-17)
(v. 1) Why We Need Jesus - He Guides Us By His Words and Actions (2009-04-28)
(v. 1) Mind Change - Starting Out (2011-11-06)
(v. 2) Mind Change - Starting Out (2011-11-06)
(v. 2) Why We Need Jesus - He Guides Us By His Words and Actions (2009-04-28)
(v. 2) Mind of Christ - Intro (part VIII) (2011-06-15)
(v. 2) Desire's Journey - Blessed are the Nice? (2010-05-24)
(v. 2) Names of Jesus (part II) (2011-04-08)
(v. 2) 30 Days at the Cross - Mistreatment but Not Misery (2008-08-12)
(v. 2) NT Commands (part V) (2011-03-12)
(v. 2) 30 Days at the Cross - Not Surprise by Joy (2008-08-22)
(v. 3) Followup - Heart Issues (2011-01-20)
(v. 3) Why We Need Jesus - He Guides Us By His Words and Actions (2009-04-28)
(v. 3) 30 Days at the Cross - Not Surprise by Joy (2008-08-22)
(v. 4) God is love (2010-09-15)
(v. 4) Followup - Heart Issues (2011-01-20)
(v. 5) Daughter Needs - Pushover Papa (2011-08-10)
(v. 5) 30 Days at the Cross - Life through Death (2008-07-28)
(v. 5) Power of Spiritual Thinking - Buy Now and Pay Later (2008-05-04)
(v. 5) Power of Spiritual Thinking - The Easy Way Out (2008-05-05)
(v. 5) Wild at Heart - False self (part 2) (2009-09-11)
(v. 5) God is love (2010-09-15)
(v. 5) Followup - Heart Issues (2011-01-20)
(v. 6) God is love (2010-09-15)
(v. 6) Daughter Needs - Pushover Papa (2011-08-10)
(v. 6) Fearing God - Respect for His Discipline (2011-05-29)
(v. 6) Wild at Heart - False self (part 2) (2009-09-11)
(v. 6) Followup - Heart Issues (2011-01-20)
(v. 6) Power of Spiritual Thinking - The Easy Way Out (2008-05-05)
(v. 6) Power of Spiritual Thinking - Buy Now and Pay Later (2008-05-04)
(v. 6) Genesis 8 - The Flood (part III) (2011-10-08)
(v. 6) 30 Days at the Cross - Life through Death (2008-07-28)
(v. 7) Followup - Heart Issues (2011-01-20)
(v. 7) Power of Spiritual Thinking - Buy Now and Pay Later (2008-05-04)
(v. 7) 30 Days at the Cross - Life through Death (2008-07-28)
(v. 7) God is love (2010-09-15)
(v. 7) Power of Spiritual Thinking - The Easy Way Out (2008-05-05)
(v. 8) God is love (2010-09-15)
(v. 8) Power of Spiritual Thinking - Buy Now and Pay Later (2008-05-04)
(v. 8) Followup - Heart Issues (2011-01-20)
(v. 8) Power of Spiritual Thinking - The Easy Way Out (2008-05-05)
(v. 8) 30 Days at the Cross - Life through Death (2008-07-28)
(v. 9) Disciplining Your Children (part I) (2014-04-04)
(v. 9) 30 Days at the Cross - Life through Death (2008-07-28)
(v. 9) God is love (2010-09-15)
(v. 9) Power of Spiritual Thinking - The Easy Way Out (2008-05-05)
(v. 9) Followup - Heart Issues (2011-01-20)
(v. 9) Power of Spiritual Thinking - Buy Now and Pay Later (2008-05-04)
(v. 10) Promises of God - Produces a Harvest (2009-03-18)
(v. 10) Followup - Heart Issues (2011-01-20)
(v. 10) God is love (2010-09-15)
(v. 10) 30 Days at the Cross - Life through Death (2008-07-28)
(v. 10) Power of Spiritual Thinking - Buy Now and Pay Later (2008-05-04)
(v. 10) Disciplining Your Children (part I) (2014-04-04)
(v. 10) Power of Spiritual Thinking - The Easy Way Out (2008-05-05)
(v. 11) Fear of Failure - No Discipline Seems Pleasant (2012-02-28)
(v. 11) Followup - Laziness (part II) (2011-01-23)
(v. 11) 30 Days at the Cross - Life through Death (2008-07-28)
(v. 11) Followup - Heart Issues (2011-01-20)
(v. 11) Disciplining Your Children (part I) (2014-04-04)
(v. 11) Power of Spiritual Thinking - Buy Now and Pay Later (2008-05-04)
(v. 11) Power of Spiritual Thinking - The Easy Way Out (2008-05-05)
(v. 11) Promises of God - Produces a Harvest (2009-03-18)
(v. 12) Power of Spiritual Thinking - Buy Now and Pay Later (2008-05-04)
(v. 12) Fear of Failure - No Discipline Seems Pleasant (2012-02-28)
(v. 12) Followup - Heart Issues (2011-01-20)
(v. 13) Fear of Failure - No Discipline Seems Pleasant (2012-02-28)
(v. 13) Power of Spiritual Thinking - Buy Now and Pay Later (2008-05-04)
(v. 14) One Another - Forgiving One Another (part 2) (2010-02-26)
(v. 14) Power of Spiritual Thinking - Buy Now and Pay Later (2008-05-04)
(v. 15) Wild at Heart - Healing the wound (part 3) (2009-09-17)
(v. 15) One Another - Forgiving One Another (part 2) (2010-02-26)
(v. 15) Falling in Love with God - Bitterness (2008-04-02)
(v. 17) Promises of God - Lord of the Unexpected (2009-03-07)
(v. 22) Names of the Church (part II) (2011-04-26)
(v. 22) Names of the Church (part III) (2011-04-27)
(v. 22) Names of the Church (part V) (2011-04-29)
(v. 23) Names of the Church (part III) (2011-04-27)
(v. 23) Names of the Church (part I) (2011-04-25)
(v. 28) Gratitude (part I) (2011-11-28)
(v. 29) Prayer of the Righeous - God is a Consuming Fire (part I) (2013-01-01)
(v. 29) Gratitude (part I) (2011-11-28)

Definition(s):
Abel (Eh-bel): vanity; breath; vapor
Abel (Eh-bel): a city; mourning
Esau (Ee-saw): he that acts or finishes
Moses (Moh-ziz): taken out; drawn forth
So (Soh):