3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds
4 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood striving against sin
5 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
6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth
7 If ye endure chastening God dealeth with you as with sons for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not 8 But if ye be without chastisement whereof all are partakers then are ye bastards and not sons 9 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 10 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 11 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 __
12 Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down and the feeble knees 13 And make straight paths for your feet lest that which is lame be turned out of the way but let it rather be healed
14 Follow peace with all men and holiness without which no man shall see the Lord 15 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 16 Lest there be any fornicator or profane person as Esau who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright 17 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
18 For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched and that burned with fire nor unto blackness and darkness and tempest 19 And the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more 20 For they could not endure that which was commanded And if so much as a beast touch the mountain it shall be stoned or thrust through with a dart 21 And ">so terrible was the sight that Moses said I exceedingly fear __ and quake 22 But ye are come unto mount Sion and unto the city of the living God the heavenly Jerusalem and to an innumerable company of angels 23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn which are written in heaven and to God the Judge of all and to the spirits of just men made perfect 24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant and to the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better things than that of Abel
25 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth much more shall not we escape if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven 26 Whose voice then shook the earth but now he hath promised saying Yet once more I shake not the earth only but also heaven 27 And this word Yet once more signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken as of things that are made that those things which cannot be shaken may remain 28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved let us have grace whereby __ we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear 29 For __ our God is a consuming fire
