012:011 Now, at the time, discipline seems to be a matter not for joy,
but for grief; yet it afterwards yields to those who have passed
through its training a result full of peace--namely, righteousness.
012:012 Therefore strengthen the drooping hands and paralysed knees,
012:013 and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame
may not be put entirely out of joint
012:014 but may rather be restored. Persistently strive for peace
with all men, and for that growth in holiness apart from
which no one will see the Lord.
012:015 Be carefully on your guard lest there be any one who falls
back from the grace of God; lest any root bearing bitter
fruit spring up and cause trouble among you, and through it
the whole brotherhood be defiled;
012:016 lest there be a fornicator, or an ungodly person like Esau,
who, in return for a single meal, parted with the birthright
which belonged to him.
012:017 For you know that even afterwards, when he wished to secure
the blessing, he was rejected; for he found no opportunity
for undoing what he had done, though he sought the blessing
earnestly with tears.
012:018 For you have not come to a material object all ablaze with fire,
and to gloom and darkness and storm and trumpet-blast and
the sound of words--
012:019 a sound of such a kind that those who heard it entreated
that no more should be added.
012:020 For they could not endure the order which had been given,
"Even a wild beast, if it touches the mountain, shall be
stoned to death;"
012:021 and so terrible was the scene that Moses said, "I tremble with fear."
012:022 On the contrary you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city