Hebrews 12 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

Jesus, the Example

Heb 12:1For this reason, as we are circled by so great a cloud of witnesses, putting off every weight, and the sin into which we come so readily, let us keep on running in the way which is marked out for us,

Heb 12:2

Heb 12:2Having our eyes fixed on Jesus, the guide and end of our faith, who went through the pains of the cross, not caring for the shame, because of the joy which was before him, and who has now taken his place at the right hand of God's seat of power.

(Pro 3:11, 12 )

Heb 12:3

Heb 12:3Give thought to him who has undergone so much of the hate of sinners against himself, so that you may not be tired and feeble of purpose.

A Father's Discipline

Heb 12:4

Heb 12:4Till now you have not given your blood in your fight against sin:

Heb 12:5

Heb 12:5And you have not kept in mind the word which says to you as to sons, My son, do not make little of the Lord's punishment, and do not give up hope when you are judged by him;

Heb 12:6

Heb 12:6For the Lord sends punishment on his loved ones; everyone whom he takes as his son has experience of his rod.

Heb 12:7

Heb 12:7It is for your training that you undergo these things; God is acting to you as a father does to his sons; for what son does not have punishment from his father?

Heb 12:8

Heb 12:8But if you have not that punishment of which we all have our part, then you are not true sons, but children of shame.

Heb 12:9

Heb 12:9And again, if the fathers of our flesh gave us punishment and had our respect, how much more will we be under the authority of the Father of spirits, and have life?

Heb 12:10

Heb 12:10For they truly gave us punishment for a short time, as it seemed good to them; but he does it for our profit, so that we may become holy as he is.

Heb 12:11

Heb 12:11At the time all punishment seems to be pain and not joy: but after, those who have been trained by it get from it the peace-giving fruit of righteousness.

(Gen 25:29–34; 27:30–40 )

Heb 12:12

Heb 12:12For this cause let the hands which are hanging down be lifted up, and let the feeble knees be made strong,

Heb 12:13

Heb 12:13And make straight roads for your feet, so that the feeble may not be turned out of the way, but may be made strong.

Heb 12:14

Heb 12:14Let your desire be for peace with all men, and to be made holy, without which no man may see the Lord;

Heb 12:15

Heb 12:15Looking with care to see that no man among you in his behaviour comes short of the grace of God; for fear that some bitter root may come up to be a trouble to you, and that some of you may be made unclean by it;

Heb 12:16

Heb 12:16And that there may not be any evil liver, or any man without respect for God, like Esau, who let his birthright go for a plate of food.

Heb 12:17

Heb 12:17For you have knowledge that even long after, when he was desiring the blessing for his heritage, he was turned away, though he made his request frequently and with weeping; because the past might not be changed.

Contrast of Sinai and Zion

Heb 12:18

Heb 12:18You have not come to a mountain which may be touched, and is burning with fire, and to a black cloud, and a dark smoke, and a violent wind,

Heb 12:19

Heb 12:19And to the sound of a horn, and the voice of words, the hearers of which made request that not a word more might be said to them:

Heb 12:20

Heb 12:20For the order which said, If the mountain is touched even by a beast, the beast is to be stoned, seemed hard to them;

Heb 12:21

Heb 12:21And the vision was so overpowering that even Moses said, I am shaking and full of fear.

Heb 12:22

Heb 12:22But you have come to the mountain of Zion, to the place of the living God, to the Jerusalem which is in heaven, and to an army of angels which may not be numbered,

Heb 12:23

Heb 12:23To the great meeting and church of the first of those who are named in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of good men made complete,

Heb 12:24

Heb 12:24And to Jesus by whom the new agreement has been made between God and man, and to the sign of the blood which says better things than Abel's blood.

The Unshaken Kingdom

Heb 12:25

Heb 12:25See that you give ear to his voice which comes to you. For if those whose ears were shut to the voice which came to them on earth did not go free from punishment, what chance have we of going free if we give no attention to him whose voice comes from heaven?

Heb 12:26

Heb 12:26Whose voice was the cause of the shaking of the earth; but now he has made an oath, saying, There will be still one more shaking, not only of the earth, but of heaven.

Heb 12:27

Heb 12:27And the words, Still one more, make it clear that there will be a taking away of those things which are shaking, as of things which are made, so that there may be only those things of which no shaking is possible.

Heb 12:28

Heb 12:28If then, we have a kingdom which will never be moved, let us have grace, so that we may give God such worship as is pleasing to him with fear and respect:

Heb 12:29

Heb 12:29For our God is an all-burning fire.

The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
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