Hebrews

And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things that that of Abel.

To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,

But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,

And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)

(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 the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:

For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,

For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.

Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.

Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;

Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:

And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.

Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;

Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.

For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.

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?

But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?

For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:

Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.

For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.

Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.

And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:

(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.

They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;

And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:

Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection: