Hebrews 12:1-7

Jesus, Founder and Perfecter of Our Faith

1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and a sin which clings so closely, and b let us run c with endurance the race that is d set before us, 2 looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith e who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising f the shame, and g is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

Do Not Grow Weary

3  h Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or i fainthearted. 4 In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. 5 And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons?

j “My son k do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord,
nor be weary when reproved by him.
 6 For l the Lord disciplines the one he loves,
and chastises every son whom he receives.”

7 It is for discipline that you have to endure. m God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?
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