1Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

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2 Timothy 4:7, 2 Timothy 4:7, 1 Corinthians 9:24, 1 Corinthians 9:27, 1 Corinthians 9:24

2looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

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Micah 7:7, Micah 7:7, 1 Peter 3:18, 1 Peter 3:18, 1 Peter 2:23

3For consider him who has endured such hostility from sinners against himself, that you do not grow weary, fainting in your souls.

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Galatians 6:9, Galatians 6:9, 2 Corinthians 4:16, 2 Corinthians 4:16, Revelation 2:3

4You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin;

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1 Corinthians 10:13, 1 Corinthians 10:13, Revelation 2:13, Hebrews 10:32, Hebrews 10:34

5and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, "My son, do not take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;

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Proverbs 3:11, Proverbs 3:12, Proverbs 3:11, Proverbs 3:12, Job 5:17

6For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives."

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Revelation 3:19, Revelation 3:19, Proverbs 3:12, Proverbs 3:12, Psalms 119:75

7It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

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Proverbs 19:18, Proverbs 19:18, Deuteronomy 8:5, Deuteronomy 8:5, Proverbs 13:24

8But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children.

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Hebrews 12:6, Hebrews 12:6, 1 Peter 5:9, 1 Peter 5:10, 1 Peter 5:9

9Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

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Numbers 16:22, Numbers 16:22, Numbers 27:16, Numbers 27:16, Isaiah 42:5

10For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.

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2 Peter 1:4, 2 Peter 1:4, Leviticus 11:44, Leviticus 11:45, Leviticus 11:44

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 exercised thereby.

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Romans 5:3, Romans 5:5, Romans 5:3, Romans 5:5, 2 Corinthians 4:17

12Therefore, lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,

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Isaiah 35:3, Isaiah 35:3, Hebrews 12:3, Hebrews 12:3, Ezekiel 21:7

13and make straight paths for your feet, so that which is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.

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Proverbs 4:26, Proverbs 4:27, Proverbs 4:26, Proverbs 4:27, Isaiah 35:3

14Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

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2 Corinthians 7:1, 2 Corinthians 7:1, 1 Peter 1:15, 1 Peter 1:16, 1 Peter 1:15

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;

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Hebrews 3:12, Hebrews 3:12, Deuteronomy 29:18, Deuteronomy 29:18, Galatians 5:4

16lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his own birthright for one meal.

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Genesis 25:31, Genesis 25:34, Genesis 25:31, Genesis 25:34, 1 Corinthians 6:15

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.

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Proverbs 1:24, Proverbs 1:31, Proverbs 1:24, Proverbs 1:31, Matthew 25:11

18For you have not come to something that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and darkness, gloom, and storm,

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Deuteronomy 4:11, Deuteronomy 4:11, Exodus 24:17, Exodus 24:17, Deuteronomy 5:22

19the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which those who heard it begged that not one more word should be spoken to them,

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Deuteronomy 18:16, Deuteronomy 18:16, 1 Corinthians 15:52, Deuteronomy 4:12, Exodus 20:1

20for they could not stand that which was commanded, "If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned;"

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Exodus 19:12, Exodus 19:13, Exodus 19:12, Exodus 19:13, Exodus 19:16

21and so fearful was the appearance, that Moses said, "I am terrified and trembling."

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Exodus 19:16, Exodus 19:16, Deuteronomy 9:19, Deuteronomy 9:19, Isaiah 6:3

22But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,

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Philippians 3:20, Galatians 4:26, Philippians 3:20, Galatians 4:26, Psalms 48:2

23to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,

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James 1:18, James 1:18, Hebrews 11:40, Hebrews 11:40, Luke 10:20

24to Jesus, the mediator of a New Covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.

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Hebrews 9:15, Hebrews 9:15, Hebrews 11:28, Hebrews 11:28, Hebrews 8:6

25See that you do not refuse him who speaks. For if they did not escape when they refused him who warned on the Earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,

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Hebrews 8:5, Hebrews 8:5, Hebrews 2:1, Hebrews 2:3, Hebrews 2:1

26whose voice shook the earth then, but now he has promised, saying, "Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heavens."

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Haggai 2:6, Haggai 2:7, Haggai 2:6, Haggai 2:7, Isaiah 13:13

27This phrase, "Yet once more," signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain.

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Matthew 24:35, 1 Corinthians 7:31, Matthew 24:35, 1 Corinthians 7:31, 2 Peter 3:10

28So since we are receiving a Kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us give thanks, through which we may offer service pleasing to God, with reverence and awe,

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Psalms 2:11, Hebrews 13:15, Daniel 2:44, Psalms 2:11, Hebrews 13:15

29for our God is a consuming fire.

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Deuteronomy 4:24, Deuteronomy 4:24, Deuteronomy 9:3, Deuteronomy 9:3, Isaiah 66:15