\v 1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a large cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and easily entangling sin. Let us patiently run the race that is placed before us.
\v 2 Let us pay attention to Jesus, the beginner and perfecter of the faith. For the joy that was placed before him, he endured the cross, despised its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
\v 3 So think about him, the one who has endured such opposition from sinners against himself, so that you do not become weary in your hearts and give up.
\v 9 Furthermore, we had fathers in the flesh as disciplinarians, and we respected them. Should we not even more so obey the Father of spirits and live?
\v 10 For on the one hand, our fathers disciplined us for a few days as it seemed right to them. But on the other hand, God does so for our good so that we can share in his holiness.
\v 11 No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but rather painful. However it later produces peaceful fruit of righteousness for those who have been trained by it.
\v 14 Pursue peace with everyone and the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.
\v 15 Be careful so that no one lacks the grace of God, and that no root of bitterness grows up to cause trouble and through it pollute many.
\v 16 Be careful that there is no sexually immoral or ungodly person such as Esau, who for one meal sold his own birthright.
\v 17 For you know that afterwards, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, because he found no opportunity for repentance, even though he sought for it with tears.
\v 22 Instead, you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to tens of thousands of angels in celebration.
\v 23 You have come to the congregation of the firstborn, who have been registered in heaven. You have come to God, the Judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous ones who have been made perfect.
\v 24 And you have come to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks better than the blood of Abel.
\v 25 See that you do not refuse the one who is speaking. For if they did not escape when they refused the one who warned them on earth, much less us, if we turn away from the one who is warning from heaven.
\v 27 These words, "One more time," mean the removal of those things that can be shaken, that is, of the things that have been created, so that the things that cannot shaken will remain.
\v 28 Therefore, receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be grateful and in this acceptable manner worship God with reverence and awe.
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