58:012:001 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, 58:012:002 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. 58:012:003 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. 58:012:004 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. 58:012:005 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: 58:012:006 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. 58:012:007 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? 58:012:008 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. 58:012:009 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? 58:012:010 For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness. 58:012:011 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby. 58:012:012 Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees; 58:012:013 And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed. 58:012:014 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: 58:012:015 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; 58:012:016 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. 58:012:017 For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears. 58:012:018 For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,