174Or, encumbrance
175Or, doth closely cling to us or, is admired of many
176Or, stedfastness
12: 2 looking unto Jesus the 177author and perfecter of our faith, who against the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising shame, and hath sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
177Or, captain
12: 3 For consider him that hath endured such gainsaying of sinners 178against themselves, that ye wax not weary, fainting in your souls.
178So p13,46(ℵ*) 048 1739 33 81vid copbo vg. A P (1175 and a majority of lesser Gk. mss.) read against himself copsa arm omit against themselves Cf. Nu 16:38.
12: 4 Ye have not resisted unto blood, striving against sin:
12: 5 and ye have forgotten the exhortation which reasoneth with you as with sons, 179My son, regard not lightly the chastening of the Lord, Nor faint when thou art reproved of him;
179Pr 3:11f.
12: 6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, And scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
12: 7 180It is for chastening that ye endure; God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father chasteneth not?
180Or, Endure unto chastening;
12: 8 But if ye are without chastening, whereof all have become partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
12: 9 Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of 181spirits, and live?
181Or, our spirits, Gk. the spirits,
12: 10 For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.
12: 11 All chastening seemeth for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yieldeth peaceable fruit unto them that have been exercised thereby, even the fruit of righteousness.
12: 12 Wherefore 182lift up the hands that hang down, and the palsied knees;
182Gk. make straight
12: 13 and make straight paths for your feet, that that which is lame be not 183turned out of the way, but rather be healed.
183Or, put out of joint,
12: 14 Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no one shall see the Lord:
12: 15 looking carefully 184lest there be any man that falleth 185back from the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby the many be defiled;
184Or, whether
185Or, short of the grace
12: 16 lest there be any fornicator, or profane person as Esau, who for one meal sold his own birthright.
12: 17 For ye know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was 186rejected; for he found no place for a change of mind in his father, though he sought it diligently with tears.
186Or, rejected (for he found no place of repentance), etc. Or, rejected; for ... of repentance etc. Compare ch. 6:6 (and Sept. Apocrypha 2Esdras 9:11, Wisdom 12:10).
12: 18 For ye are not come unto 187something tangible, and that burned with fire, and unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
187So p46ℵCA 048 33 81 copsa,bo vg. 1739 and the majority of lesser Gk. mss., arm read a tangible mountain,
12: 19 and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard entreated that no word more should be spoken unto them;
12: 20 for they could not endure that which was enjoined, 188If even a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned;
188Ex 19:12f.
12: 21 and so fearful was the appearance, that Moses said, 189I exceedingly fear and quake:
189Dt 9:19.
12: 22 but ye are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, 190and to 191innumerable hosts of angels,
190Or, and to innumerable hosts, the general assembly of angels, and the church of the firstborn
191Gk. myriads of angels, or, tens of thousands of angels
12: 23 to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
12: 24 and to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaketh mightier than that of Abel.
12: 25 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not when they refused him that warned them on earth, much more shall not we escape who turn away from him 192that warneth from heaven:
192Or, that is from heaven:
12: 26 whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, 193Yet once more will I make to tremble not the earth only, but also the heaven.
193Hag 2:6.
12: 27 And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain.
12: 28 Wherefore, receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us have 194grace, whereby we may offer service well-pleasing to God with 195reverence and awe:
194Or, thankfulness Compare 1Co 10:30.
195Or, godly fear Compare ch. 5:7.
12: 29 for our God is a consuming fire.
