Hebrews 12 (NET)

Hebrews 12:1¹Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, we must get rid of every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and run with endurance the race set out for us,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Tim 4:71 Cor 9:24-27Phil 2:16Luke 21:34Heb 10:35-39Phil 3:10-14Gal 5:71 Pet 2:1Col 3:5-8Jas 5:7-11

Hebrews 12:2²keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith. For the joy set out for him he endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mic 7:71 Pet 3:181 Pet 2:23-24Heb 1:3Phil 1:6Eph 5:2Heb 9:28Titus 2:13-14John 6:40Phil 2:8-11

Hebrews 12:3³Think of him who endured such opposition against himself by sinners, so that you may not grow weary in your souls and give up.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gal 6:92 Cor 4:16Rev 2:31 Cor 15:58Heb 12:2Heb 3:1John 15:18-242 Cor 4:1John 5:161 Sam 12:24

Hebrews 12:4⁴You have not yet resisted to the point of bloodshed in your struggle against sin.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 10:13Heb 10:32-34Rev 2:132 Tim 4:6-7Heb 12:2Matt 24:9Rev 12:11Rev 18:24Rev 6:9-11Rev 17:6

Hebrews 12:5⁵And have you forgotten the exhortation addressed to you as sons? “My son, do not scorn the Lord’s discipline or give up when he corrects you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 3:11-12Job 5:17-18Rev 3:191 Cor 11:32Ps 94:12Jas 1:122 Cor 4:8-9Ps 118:18Ps 119:109Jer 31:18

Hebrews 12:6⁶“For the Lord disciplines the one he loves and chastises every son he accepts.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rev 3:19Prov 3:12Ps 119:75Prov 13:24Ps 94:122 Sam 7:14Jer 10:24Deut 8:5Heb 12:7-8Ps 32:1-5

Hebrews 12:7⁷Endure your suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is there that a father does not discipline?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 19:18Deut 8:5Prov 13:24Prov 29:15Prov 29:17Prov 23:13-142 Sam 7:14Job 34:31-321 Kgs 2:24-251 Sam 3:13

Hebrews 12:8⁸But if you do not experience discipline, something all sons have shared in, then you are illegitimate and are not sons.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 12:61 Pet 5:9-10Ps 73:1Ps 73:14-15

Hebrews 12:9⁹Besides, we have experienced discipline from our earthly fathers and we respected them; shall we not submit ourselves all the more to the Father of spirits and receive life?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 16:22Num 27:16Isa 42:5John 3:6Job 12:10Zech 12:1Exod 20:12Isa 38:16Jas 4:71 Pet 5:6

Hebrews 12:10¹⁰For they disciplined us for a little while as seemed good to them, but he does so for our benefit, that we may share his holiness.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Pet 1:4Lev 11:44-45Titus 2:14Eph 5:26-27Ezek 36:25-27Lev 19:2Col 1:22Eph 4:24Ps 17:151 Pet 1:15-16

Hebrews 12:11¹¹Now all discipline seems painful at the time, not joyful. But later it produces the fruit of peace and righteousness for those trained by it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 5:3-52 Cor 4:17Heb 12:5-61 Pet 1:6Heb 12:10Ps 118:18Isa 32:17Jas 3:17-18Prov 19:18Ps 119:165

Hebrews 12:12¹²Therefore, strengthen your listless hands and your weak knees,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 35:3Heb 12:31 Thess 5:14Job 4:3-4Ezek 21:7Ezek 7:17Heb 12:5Dan 5:6Nah 2:10

Hebrews 12:13¹³and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but be healed.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 4:26-27Gal 6:1Isa 35:3Isa 35:6Isa 40:3-4Jas 5:16Jude 1:22-23Jer 31:8-9Luke 3:5Isa 35:8-10

Hebrews 12:14¹⁴Pursue peace with everyone, and holiness, for without it no one will see the Lord.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 7:11 Pet 1:15-161 Thess 4:7Matt 5:8-91 Pet 3:11Rom 12:18Prov 16:7Rom 14:19Ps 34:141 Thess 3:13

Hebrews 12:15¹⁵See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God, that no one be like a bitter root springing up and causing trouble, and through it many become defiled.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 3:12Deut 29:18Gal 5:42 Cor 6:12 John 1:81 Cor 15:331 Cor 5:62 Pet 3:14Heb 4:1Jer 2:21

Hebrews 12:16¹⁶And see to it that no one becomes an immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 25:31-341 Cor 6:15-20Heb 13:4Rev 22:15Mark 7:211 Thess 4:3-7Acts 15:291 Cor 10:81 Cor 5:1-61 Cor 5:9-11

Hebrews 12:17¹⁷For you know that later when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no opportunity for repentance, although he sought the blessing with tears.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 1:24-31Matt 25:11-12Matt 7:23Heb 10:26-29Heb 6:8Gen 27:30-41Heb 6:4-6Jer 6:30Luke 13:24-27

Hebrews 12:18¹⁸For you have not come to something that can be touched, to a burning fire and darkness and gloom and a whirlwindCopy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 4:11Exod 24:17Deut 5:22-26Exod 20:182 Cor 3:9Exod 19:12-22Rom 6:142 Tim 1:7Rom 8:15

Hebrews 12:19¹⁹and the blast of a trumpet and a voice uttering words such that those who heard begged to hear no more.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 18:161 Cor 15:52Deut 4:12Exod 20:1-19Deut 4:33Deut 5:3-22Exod 20:221 Thess 4:16Deut 5:24-27Exod 19:16-19

Hebrews 12:20²⁰For they could not bear what was commanded: “If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 19:12-13Deut 33:2Exod 19:16Gal 2:19Gal 3:10Rom 3:19-20

Hebrews 12:21²¹In fact, the scene was so terrifying that Moses said, “I shudder with fear.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 19:16Deut 9:19Isa 6:3-5Exod 19:19Ps 119:120Rev 1:17Dan 10:17Dan 10:8

Hebrews 12:22²²But you have come to Mount Zion, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, to the assemblyCopy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Phil 3:20Gal 4:26Ps 48:2Rev 14:1Isa 51:11Rev 21:2Heb 11:10Heb 13:14Joel 2:32Rev 22:19

Hebrews 12:23²³and congregation of the firstborn, who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous, who have been made perfect,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jas 1:18Heb 11:40Luke 10:20Exod 4:22Gen 18:25Rev 14:4Rev 20:15Ps 94:22 Thess 1:5-7Heb 6:10-12

Hebrews 12:24²⁴and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks of something better than Abel’s does.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 9:15Heb 11:28Heb 11:4Heb 8:61 Tim 2:5Gen 4:10Matt 23:35Matt 26:281 Pet 1:2Exod 24:8

Hebrews 12:25²⁵Take care not to refuse the one who is speaking! For if they did not escape when they refused the one who warned them on earth, how much less shall we, if we reject the one who warns from heaven?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 8:5Deut 30:17Heb 2:1-3Heb 11:7Prov 13:18Zech 7:11Exod 20:221 Kgs 12:162 Chr 7:19Exod 16:29

Hebrews 12:26²⁶Then his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, “I will once more shake not only the earth but heaven too.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hag 2:6-7Isa 13:13Exod 19:18Isa 2:19Joel 3:16Hab 3:10Heb 12:27Ps 114:6-7Hag 2:22

Hebrews 12:27²⁷Now this phrase “once more ” indicates the removal of what is shaken, that is, of created things, so that what is unshaken may remain.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 7:31Matt 24:35Rev 21:12 Pet 3:10-11Rev 11:15Ezek 21:27Ps 102:26-27

Hebrews 12:28²⁸So since we are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us give thanks, and through this let us offer worship pleasing to God in devotion and awe.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 12:1-2Heb 13:15Ps 2:11Dan 2:44Heb 4:16Heb 10:22-23Rev 1:61 Pet 2:5Ps 19:141 Pet 1:17

Hebrews 12:29²⁹For our God is indeed a devouring fire.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 4:24Deut 9:32 Thess 1:8Heb 10:27Isa 66:15Exod 24:17Dan 7:9Ps 97:3Num 16:35Num 11:1