Whereforeseeing we also are compassedaboutwith so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay asideeveryweight, and the sin whichdoth so easilybeset us, and let us run withpatience the racethat is set before us,
LookinguntoJesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the righthand of the throne of God.
And ye haveforgotten the exhortationwhichspeakethunto you as untochildren, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faintwhenthou art rebuked of him:
Furthermore we have had fathers of our fleshwhichcorrected us, and we gavethemreverence: shall we not muchrather be in subjectionunto the Father of spirits, and live?
Now no chastening for the presentseemeth to be joyous, but grievous: neverthelessafterward it yieldeth the peaceablefruit of righteousnessuntothemwhich are exercisedthereby.
For ye know how thatafterward, when he wouldhaveinherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefullywithtears.
To the generalassembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men madeperfect,
See that ye refuse not him thatspeaketh. For if theyescaped not who refused him thatspake on earth, muchmoreshall not we escape, if we turnawayfrom him thatspeakethfromheaven:
And thisword, Yet oncemore, signifieth the removing of thosethingsthat are shaken, as of thingsthat are made, thatthosethingswhichcannot be shaken may remain.