Hebrews 12:10–18
10For they indeed for a few days disciplined us as seemed good to them, but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.↗
11All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.↗
12Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,↗
13and make straight paths for your feet, so what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.↗
14Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,↗
15looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you and many be defiled by it,↗
16lest there be any sexually immoral person or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.↗
17For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears.↗
18For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm,↗
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