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Hebrews 12

Because believers are surrounded by such witnesses, Hebrews calls them to lay aside weights and sin and run with endurance while looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of faith. The chapter explains fatherly chastening, urges holiness and peace, warns through Esau and Sinai, and contrasts the terror of Sinai with believers coming to heavenly Zion and the mediator of the new covenant.

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Because believers are surrounded by such witnesses, Hebrews calls them to lay aside weights and sin and run with endurance while looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of faith. The chapter explains fatherly chastening, urges holiness and peace, warns through Esau and Sinai, and contrasts the terror of Sinai with believers coming to heavenly Zion and the mediator of the new covenant.

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Verses 1–4Believers are called to run with patience while looking unto Jesus and resisting sinVerses 5–11God’s chastening is explained as the loving discipline of a FatherVerses 12–17The weak are to be strengthened and holiness pursued, with Esau given as a warningVerses 18–24Believers have come not to Sinai’s terror but to mount Sion and Jesus the mediatorVerses 25–29Believers must not refuse the one who speaks, for God will shake created things and is a consuming fire
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1Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great…2Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith;…3For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against…4Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.5And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you…6For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every…7If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with…8But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers,…9Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected…10For they verily for a few days chastened us after…11Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous,…12Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the…13And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which…14Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no…15Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of…16Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau,…17For ye know how that afterward, when he would have…18For ye are not come unto the mount that might…19And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of…20(For they could not endure that which was commanded, And…21And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I…22But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the…23To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which…24And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and…25See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if…26Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath…27And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of…28Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let…29For our God is a consuming fire.