Twentieth Century [1904], THE TWENTIETH CENTURY NEW TESTAMENT A TRANSLATION INTO MODERN ENGLISH Made from the Original Greek (Westcott & Hort's Text) (The Fleming H. Revell Company, NEW YORK & CHICAGO) [word count] [B14200].
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1 Seeing, therefore, that there is on every side
of us such a throng of witnesses, let us also lay
aside everything that hinders us, and the sin
that clings about us, and run with patient endurance the race
that lies before us,
2 our eyes fixed upon Jesus, the Leader and
perfect Example of our faith, who, for the joy that lay before
him, endured the cross, heedless of its shame, and now ‘has
taken his seat at the right hand’ of the throne of God. note
3 Weigh
well the example of him who had to endure such opposition
from ‘men who were sinning against themselves,’
so that you should not grow weary or faint-hearted.
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4 You have not yet, in your struggle
with sin, resisted to the death;
5 and you have forgotten the
encouraging words which are addressed to you as God's
Children—
‘My child, think not lightly of the Lord's discipline,
Do not despond when he rebukes you;
6
For it is him whom he loves that he disciplines,
And he chastises every child whom he acknowledges.’
7 It is for your discipline that you have to endure all this. God
is dealing with you as his Children. For where is there a
child whom his father does not discipline?
8 If you are left
without that discipline, in which all children share, it shows
that you are bastards, and not true Children. note
9 Further, when
our earthly fathers disciplined us, we respected them. Shall
we not, then, much rather yield submission to the Father of
souls, and live?
10 Our fathers disciplined us for only a short
time and as seemed best to them; but God disciplines us
for our true good, to enable us to share his holiness.
11 No
discipline is pleasant at the time; on the contrary, it is
painful. But afterwards its fruit is seen in the peacefulness
of a righteous life which is the lot of those who have been
trained under it. ⪆⪆
12 Therefore ‘lift again the down-dropped
hands, and straighten the weakened knees; note
13 make
straight paths for your feet,’ so that the lame limb may not
be put out of joint, but rather be cured.
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VI.—Conclusion.
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14 Try earnestly to live at peace with every one,
and to attain to that purity without which no one
will see the Lord. note
15 Take care that no one fails to use the
loving help of God, ‘that no bitterness is allowed to take root
and spring up, and cause trouble,’ and so poison the whole
community. note
16 Take care that no one becomes immoral, or
irreligious like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single
meal. note
17 For you know that even afterwards, when he wished
to claim his father's blessing, he was rejected—for he never
found an opportunity to repair his error—though he begged
for the blessing with tears.
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18 It is not to tangible ‘flaming fire’ that you
have drawn near, nor to ‘gloom, and darkness,
and storm,
19 and the blast of a trumpet, and an audible voice.’
Those who heard that voice entreated that they might hear
no more, note
20 for they could not bear to think of the command—
‘If even an animal touches the mountain, it is to be stoned
to death;’ note
21 and so fearful was the sight that Moses said—
‘I tremble with fear.’ note
22 No, but it is to Mount Zion that
you have drawn near, the City of the Living God, the
heavenly Jerusalem,
23 to countless hosts of angels, to the festal
gathering and assemblage of God's Eldest Sons whose
names are enrolled in Heaven, to God the Judge of all
men, to the spirits of the righteous who have attained
perfection,
24 to Jesus, the intermediary of a new Covenant,
and to the Sprinkled Blood that tells of better things than
the blood of Abel. ⪆⪆
25 Beware how you refuse to hear
him who is speaking. For, if the Israelites did not escape
punishment, when they refused to listen to him who taught
them on earth the divine will, far worse will it be for
us, if we turn away from him who is teaching us from
Heaven.
26 Then his voice shook the earth, but now his
declaration is—
‘Still once more I will cause not only the earth to tremble,
but also the heavens.’
27 And those words ‘still once more’ indicate the passing away
of all that is shaken—that is, of all created things—in order
that only what is unshaken may remain. note ⪆⪆
28 Therefore, let
us, who have received a kingdom that cannot be shaken, be
thankful, and so offer acceptable worship to God, with awe
and reverence.
29 For our God is ‘a consuming fire.’ note
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Twentieth Century [1904], THE TWENTIETH CENTURY NEW TESTAMENT A TRANSLATION INTO MODERN ENGLISH Made from the Original Greek (Westcott & Hort's Text) (The Fleming H. Revell Company, NEW YORK & CHICAGO) [word count] [B14200].
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