\subsection{Hebrews 12}
\VS{1} Therefore we also, having so large [a] surrounding us cloud of witnesses, 
putting off every weight and easily distracting sin, through endurance let 
us be running the contest set before us, 
\VS{2} fixing one's eyes on the 
captain and completer\footnote{or ``perfecter''} of faith, Jesus, who 
instead of\footnote{or ``in exchange for," ``at the price of"} the joy set 
before him, endured the cross, slighting [the] shame, and he has sat at the right 
[hand] of the throne of God. 
\VS{3} For consider such endurance of hostility of 
sinners against himself, in order that you not be weary in your psyche-lives\fnPsyche{}, 
giving out. 
\VS{4} Not yet until blood have you struggling [ones] resisted against 
sin, 
\VS{5} and [not yet] have you forgotten altogether the encouragement which to 
you as sons he speaks:

\begin{verse}
My son, be not thinking lightly of the discipline\footnote{or ``education''} 
of the Lord \\
Nor when being corrected be wearying from him. \\
\VS{6} For whom the Lord agape-loves he disciplines\footnote{or 
``educates''}, \\
He flogs every son whom he receives.
\end{verse}

\VS{7} For discipline\footnote{or ``education''} be enduring; as sons 
God deals with you. For who is son whom [his] father does not 
discipline\footnote{or ``educate''}? 
\VS{8} But if you are without 
discipline\footnote{or ``education''}, of which partakers they are become, 
then bastards\footnote{illegitamate''} and not sons are you. 
\VS{9} 
Furthermore we were having our fathers after the flesh 
discipliners\footnote{or ``educators''} and we were respecting them; should 
we not more rather be subject to the father of [our] spirits and live? 
\VS{10} 
For on the one hand for [a] few days according to what seems good to them were 
they disciplining\footnote{or ``educating''} [us], but on the other hand [it is] for 
profit to those sharing in his holiness. 
\VS{11} On the one hand every 
discipline\footnote{or ``education''} for the present does not seem to be of 
joy but of pain, but on the other hand afterwards they yield the peaceable 
fruit of justness to those exercised through it. 
\VS{12} Therefore make 
straight the weakened hand and disabled knee, 
\VS{13} and be making [a] 
straight course for your feet, in order that what is lame be not put out of 
joint, but rather be healed. 
\VS{14} Be pursuing peace with all, and 
holiness, without which no one will see the Lord, 
\VS{15} while taking care 
[that] someone not be missing from the grace of God, [that] someone not be sprouting up 
root of bitterness [lest] he cause trouble and through this many be stained, 
\VS{16} [that] someone not be [a] fornicator or profane as Esau, who in exchange for 
one meal yielded his own birthright. 
\VS{17} For you see that afterwards 
when wanting to inherit the promise, he was rejected, for place for 
repentance was not found, though with tears he sought it. 
\VS{18} For you are come by touching and having been burned by fire and by darkness 
and by gloom and by whirlwind, 
\VS{19} and by sound of trumpet and by voice of 
words, which [sounds] those having heard requested [that more] word not be added to them. 
\VS{20} For they were not bearing the [thing] commanded: If even wild beast touch 
the mountain, it will be stoned. 
\VS{21} And so fearful was the sight Moses said, I am terrified and trembling. 
\VS{22} But you are come to Zion, the mountain and city of the zoe-living\fnZoe{} God, 
heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, to the festal assembly, 
\VS{23} and to the assembly\fnEkklhsia{} of the first-born 
enrolled in heaven, and to the judge of all, God, and the spirits of 
completed\footnote{or ``perfected''} justness, 
\VS{24} and to the mediator 
of the new contract\footnote{or ``testament'', ``covenant''}, Jesus, and to 
blood of sprinkling speaking greater [things] beside Abel. 
\VS{25} Be seeing [that] you 
not reject the [things] spoken. For if these did not escape rejecting upon earth the 
warning, rather more we repudiating that from [the] heavens [will not escape], 
\VS{26} whose voice then shook the earth, but now promised saying,

\begin{verse}
Yet once [more] I will shake not only the earth but also heaven.
\end{verse}

\VS{27} But the ``Yet once [more]" shows the removal of shakings as done, in order 
that the [things] not being shaken remain. 
\VS{28} Therefore receiving [an] unshakable 
kingdom, let us have grace, through which let us be ministering acceptable 
to God, with reverence and awe, 
\VS{29} for our God [is a] consuming fire.
