OET HEB chapter 12

Literal Version

12:1 The father disciplines his children

12 So then with us having a cloud of witnesses around us, we should discard everything that’s a burden, as well as the sin that is always so near to us. We should run the race that’s ahead of us with endurance, 2 with our eyes on Yeshua, the originator and perfecter of our faith, who endured execution on a stake and disregarded the shame of that event for the satisfaction that he’d gain. Now he’s seated there in the seat of honour beside God’s throne.

3 You all need to think about Yeshua and how he persevered when sinners quarrelled with him (although they only hurt themselves) so that you can be strong on the inside and persevere. 4 So far, you all haven’t had to resist to the point of sweating or shedding blood in the struggle against sin. 5 What’s more, you’ve failed to remember what Solomon encouraged his children to do, which also applies to all of you:[ref]

“My child, learn carefully when the Lord trains you.

Indeed, you shouldn’t become despondent when he corrects you.

6 Because it’s the people that the master loves that he disciplines,

Indeed he punishes every child that he calls his own.”

7 It’s for your own discipline that you all have to endure. God is treating you as his children, and what sort of father wouldn’t discipline them? 8 If you all weren’t disciplined (which all children experience), then you wouldn’t be true children, but rather illegitimate ones. 9 What’s more, our human parents trained us when we were children and we changed our behaviour, so, we should accept it even more when our spiritual father, God, trains us so that we can have life. 10 Indeed, they were disciplining us for a few days according to what seemed best to them, but God our father does it for our benefit so that we can also distance ourselves from sin. 11 No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful, however later it produces peace in those who’ve been trained in this way so they do what is good and right.

12 So then, straighten your drooping arms and paralysed legs, and be strong.[ref] 13 Make your paths straight[ref] so that those who’re lame won’t be discouraged, but rather come and be healed.

12 So _then also we, so _much having encompassing around _us a_cloud of _witnesses, burden having _put _away every and the well _encompassing sin through endurance, may _be _running the lying _before before _us race, 2 looking _out to the of _our faith originator and perfecter, Yaʸsous/(Yəhōshūˊa), who for the lying _before before _him joy, endured the_stake, of_its_shame having _despised:
at and of _the throne of_ the _god the_right hand has _sat _down.
3 For/Because consider the one such having _endured by the sinners against themselves controversy, in _order _that not you _all _may _falter, in _the souls of _you _all being _exhausted.
4 Not _yet unto blood you _all _stood _against, against the sin struggling, 5 and you _all _have _forgotten of _the exhortation, which to _you _all as to _sons is _discussing:
son of _me, neither be _regarding _lightly of_the_discipline of_the_master, nor be _being _exhausted by him being _rebuked, 6 for/because whom is _loving the_master, he _is _disciplining, and he _is _chastising every son whom he _is _accepting.
7 For/Because discipline you _all _are _enduring, as with _sons with _you _all is _being _disciplined the god, because/for what son is whom not is _disciplining ^his_father?
8 But if without you _all _are discipline, of _which partakers have _become all, consequently bastard and not sons you _all _are.
9 Thereafter the indeed of _the flesh of _us fathers we _were _having as _instructors, and we _swayed, not much rather we _will _be _being _subjected to _the father of_ the _spirits, and we _will _be _living?
10 The ones for on _one _hand for little days according _to the thing supposing to _them were _disciplining us, on _the _other _hand the one for the thing benefitting, in _order that to _partake of _the holiness of _him.
11 All but discipline for on _one _hand the things being _present, not is _supposing of _joy to _be, but of _sorrow, on _the _other _hand later the_fruit peaceable to _the ones by it having _been _trained is _giving _back of _righteousness.
12 Therefore your having _been _weakened hands, and your having _been _paralyzed knees, restore, 13 and paths straight be _making for _the feet of _you _all, in _order _that not the lame may _be _turning _away, but may _be _healed rather.

12:14 Don’t just take God’s message lightly

14 Strive to live live peacefully with everyone and to distance yourselves from sin, because no one will get to see the master without doing that. 15 Watch carefully to make sure that no one misses out on God’s grace, and to make sure that no bitterness grows up among you that could mess up many people’s lives,[ref] 16 and watch also that none of you are sexually immoral or godless like Esau who sold his own inheritance for a single meal.[ref] 17 As you all know, even afterwards when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected because he couldn’t find a way to undo what he’d done despite looking for it along with his many tears.[ref]

18 You all haven’t come to what can be touched and to a blazing fire and to darkness and to gloom and to a storm (like Israelis encountered at Mt. Sinai)[ref] 19 and to a a trumpet blast and then God speaking a message. But when they heard him speaking, they pleaded for him not to say anything else to them, 20 because they could not bear what was commanded: “If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be killed.”[ref] 21 Even Moses, when he saw how frightening everything was he said, “I’m trembling because I am afraid!”[ref]

22 But in contrast, you’ve all come to the city of the living God (Mt. Zion), to the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of God’s messengers to the assembly, 23 and to the assembly of the eldest sons who have been registered in the heavens, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of the people who’ve been declared innocent and who’ve been made perfect, 24 and to Yeshua, the mediator of a new agreement, and to the sprinkled blood that says even more than Abel’s blood did.[ref]

25 Make sure that you all obey God who’s speaking to you, because if the ancient Jews were punished when they were warned on earth (at Mt. Sinai), how much more God will punish any of us who don’t obey what he reveals to us now (from Mount Zion).[ref] 26 When God spoke back then (from Mount Sinai), it made the earth quake. However, at this time he promises, “I’ll make the earth and also heaven quake one more time.”[ref] 27 The words ‘one more time’ mean that God will take away everything that he shakes, since it was him who created all those things. So everything that he doesn’t shake and take will last forever.

28 So then, since we now live in a kingdom that can’t be shaken, we should be thankful, and so offer acceptable worship to God, with awe and the deepest respect 29 because ‘the God we worship is a fire that burns things up’.[ref]