Therefore let us also, seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
looking unto Jesus the author and perfecter of {cf15i our} faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising shame, and hath sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
and ye have forgotten the exhortation, which reasoneth with you as with sons, My son, regard not lightly the chastening of the Lord, Nor faint when thou art reproved of him;
Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
For they verily for a few days chastened {cf15i us} as seemed good to them; but he for {cf15i our} profit, that {cf15i we} may be partakers of his holiness.
All chastening seemeth for the present to be not joyous, but grievous: yet afterward it yieldeth peaceable fruit unto them that have been exercised thereby, {cf15i even the fruit} of righteousness.
looking carefully lest {cf15i there be} any man that falleth short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble {cf15i you}, and thereby the many be defiled;
For ye know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected (for he found no place of repentance), though he sought it diligently with tears.
to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not, when they refused him that warned {cf15i them} on earth, much more {cf15i shall not} we {cf15i escape}, who turn away from him that {cf15i warneth} from heaven:
And this {cf15i word}, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain.