Hebrews 12 KJV

Run with Perseverance

(2 Timothy 2:1-13)

1Wherefore see we also are compass about with so great a cloud of witness , let us lay aside every weight , and the sin which doth so easily besetus, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us ,
2Looking 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.

3For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.

God Disciplines His Sons

4Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.

5And 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:

6For whom the Lord is loveth loveth he chasteneth , and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth .

7If ye endure chastening , God dealeth with you as with son ; for what son is he is is whom the father chasteneth not ?
8But if ye be without chastisement , whereof all are partaker , then are ye bastard , and not son .
9Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence : shall we is be not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirit , and live ?
10For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit , thatwe might be partakers of his holiness.
11Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous , but grievous : nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit is yieldeth of righteousness unto them which are exercise thereby .

12Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
13And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.

A Call to Holiness

(1 Peter 1:13-21)

14Follow peace with all men, and holiness , without which no man shall see the Lord :
15look diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God ; lest any root is springing of bitterness spring up troubleyou, and thereby many be defiled;
16Lest there be any fornicator , or profane person , as Esau , who for one morsel of meat sell his birthright .
17For ye is know know how that afterward , when he would have inherit the blessing , he was reject : for he find no place of repentance , though he seek it carefully with tear .

Our Kingdom Can not Be shake

(Exodus 20:18-21; Deuteronomy 5:22-33)

18For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
19And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they is intreated that hear intreate that the word should not be speak to them any more :
20(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:
21And so terrible was the sight ,that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)
22But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
23To 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,
24And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.

25See that ye refuse not him that speaketh . For if they escape not who is refused refuse him that spake on earth , much moreshall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven :
26Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
27And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
28Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
29For our Godis a consuming fire.