1 ¶ Therefore, seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, leaving behind all the weight of the sin which surrounds us, let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us,

2 w ith our eyes fixed on Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who having been offered joy, endured the cross, despising the shame and was seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

looking to the author and perfecter of faith -- Jesus, who, over-against the joy set before him -- did endure a cross, shame having despised, on the right hand also of the throne of God did sit down;

3 F or consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself lest ye be wearied in your souls and faint.

for consider again him who endured such gainsaying from the sinners to himself, that ye may not be wearied in your souls -- being faint.

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

Not yet unto blood did ye resist -- with the sin striving;

5 A nd ye have quite forgotten the consolation which speaks unto you as unto sons, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art reproved of him:

and ye have forgotten the exhortation that doth speak fully with you as with sons, `My son, be not despising chastening of the Lord, nor be faint, being reproved by Him,

6 f or whom the Lord loves, he chastens and scourges everyone whom he receives as a son.

for whom the Lord doth love He doth chasten, and He scourgeth every son whom He receiveth;'

7 I f ye endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father does not chasten?

if chastening ye endure, as to sons God beareth Himself to you, for who is a son whom a father doth not chasten?

8 B ut if ye are without chastisement, of which all the sons are partakers, then ye are bastards, and not sons.

and if ye are apart from chastening, of which all have become partakers, then bastards are ye, and not sons.

9 F urthermore, we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected us, and we gave them reverence; is it not much better to be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and we shall live?

Then, indeed, fathers of our flesh we have had, chastising, and we were reverencing; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of the spirits, and live?

10 F or they verily for a few days chastened us as it seemed good unto them, but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.

for they, indeed, for a few days, according to what seemed good to them, were chastening, but He for profit, to be partakers of His separation;

11 I t is true that no chastening at present seems to be cause for joy, but rather for grief; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto those who are exercised by it.

and all chastening for the present, indeed, doth not seem to be of joy, but of sorrow, yet afterward the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those exercised through it -- it doth yield.

12 T herefore, lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees,

Wherefore, the hanging-down hands and the loosened knees set ye up;

13 a nd make straight steps unto your feet, so that which is lame will not turn out of the way, but let it rather be healed.

and straight paths make for your feet, that that which is lame may not be turned aside, but rather be healed;

14 F ollow peace with everyone and holiness, without which no one shall see the Lord:

peace pursue with all, and the separation, apart from which no one shall see the Lord,

15 l ooking diligently that no one deviate from the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up impede you, and thereby many be defiled,

looking diligently over lest any one be failing of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up may give trouble, and through this many may be defiled;

16 l est there be any fornicator or profane person as Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright.

lest any one be a fornicator, or a profane person, as Esau, who in exchange for one morsel of food did sell his birthright,

17 F or ye know how that afterward, desiring to inherit the blessing, he was rejected; for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.

for ye know that also afterwards, wishing to inherit the blessing, he was disapproved of, for a place of reformation he found not, though with tears having sought it.

18 ¶ 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 came not near to the mount touched and scorched with fire, and to blackness, and darkness, and tempest,

19 a nd the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words, which voice those that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more;

and a sound of a trumpet, and a voice of sayings, which those having heard did entreat that a word might not be added to them,

20 ( for they could not endure that which was commanded, and if so much as a beast should touch the mountain, it shall be stoned or thrust through with a dart:

for they were not bearing that which is commanded, `And if a beast may touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or with an arrow shot through,'

21 a nd so terrible was the sight that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake);

and, (so terrible was the sight,) Moses said, `I am fearful exceedingly, and trembling.'

22 b ut ye are come unto Mount Sion and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,

But, ye came to Mount Zion, and to a city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of messengers,

23 t o the congregation of the called out ones of the firstborn, who are registered in the heavens and to God the Judge of all and to the spirits of just men made perfect

to the company and assembly of the first-born in heaven enrolled, and to God the judge of all, and to spirits of righteous men made perfect,

24 a nd to Jesus, the mediator of the new testament and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaks better than that of Abel.

and to a mediator of a new covenant -- Jesus, and to blood of sprinkling, speaking better things than that of Abel!

25 S ee that you do not refuse him that speaks. For if those who refused him that spoke on earth did not escape, much less shall we escape, if we turn away from him that speaks from the heavens,

See, may ye not refuse him who is speaking, for if those did not escape who refused him who upon earth was divinely speaking -- much less we who do turn away from him who from heaven,

26 w hose voice then shook the earth; but now he has promised, saying, Yet even once, I shall shake not the earth only, but also the heaven.

whose voice the earth shook then, and now hath he promised, saying, `Yet once -- I shake not only the earth, but also the heaven;'

27 A nd this word, Yet even once, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.

and this -- `Yet once' -- doth make evident the removal of the things shaken, as of things having been made, that the things not shaken may remain;

28 T herefore, receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us hold fast to the grace, by which we serve God, pleasing him with reverence and godly fear:

wherefore, a kingdom that cannot be shaken receiving, may we have grace, through which we may serve God well-pleasingly, with reverence and religious fear;

29 f or our God is a consuming fire.

for also our God a consuming fire.