012:012 Therefore, lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,{Isaiah 35:3} 012:013 and make straight paths for your feet,{Proverbs 4:26} so that which is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed. 012:014 Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord, 012:015 looking 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; 012:016 lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal. 012:017 For 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. 012:018 For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm, 012:019 the 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, 012:020 for they could not stand that which was commanded, "If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned{TR adds "or shot with an arrow" [see Exodus 19:12-13]};"{Exodus 19:12-13} 012:021 and so fearful was the appearance, that Moses said, "I am terrified and trembling."{Deuteronomy 9:19} 012:022 But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels, 012:023 to the general assembly and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, 012:024 to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant,{Jeremiah 31:31} and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel. 012:025 See that you don't refuse him who speaks. For if they didn't 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, 012:026 whose 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."{Haggai 2:6} 012:027 This 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. 012:028 Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can't be shaken, let us have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe, 012:029 for our God is a consuming fire.{Deuteronomy 4:24} 013:001 Let brotherly love continue. 013:002 Don't forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it. 013:003 Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them;