These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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Hebrews 12
Brit Hadashah 29 verses
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Therefore, surrounded as we are by such a vast cloud of witnesses, let us fling aside every encumbrance and the sin that so readily entangles our feet. And let us run with patient endurance the race that lies before us,
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2 Timothy 4:7 1 Corinthians 9:24-27 Luke 21:34 Philippians 2:16 Philippians 3:10-14 Hebrews 10:35-39 Colossians 3:5-8 Ephesians 4:22-24 Galatians 5:7 James 5:7-11 Romans 12:12 1 John 2:15-16 Romans 13:11-14 Revelation 3:10 Luke 14:26-33 Matthew 10:37-38 Luke 8:14-15 Revelation 13:10 1 Peter 4:2 2 Timothy 2:4 2 Corinthians 7:1 Revelation 22:16 Romans 8:24-25 2 Peter 1:6 1 Timothy 6:9-10 Hebrews 6:15 Matthew 24:13 John 4:44 Luke 18:22-25 Revelation 1:9 1 Peter 2:1 Luke 16:28 Psalm 18:23 Romans 5:3-5 Hebrews 11:2-38 Luke 12:15 John 3:32 Romans 2:7 1 Peter 5:12 Isaiah 60:8 Matthew 10:22 John 4:39 Ezekiel 38:16 Ezekiel 38:9 James 1:3 Luke 9:59-62 -
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simply fixing our gaze upon , our Prince Leader in the , who will also award us the prize. He, for the sake of the joy which lay before Him, patiently endured the cross, looking with contempt upon its shame, and afterwards seated Himself—where He still sits—at the right hand of the throne of .
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Micah 7:7 Hebrews 1:3 Ephesians 5:2 1 Peter 3:18 Titus 2:13-14 1 Peter 2:23-24 Hebrews 9:28 Acts 5:31 Philippians 3:20 Luke 24:26 Philippians 1:6 Isaiah 53:3 1 Peter 3:22 Revelation 2:8 Psalm 138:8 Philippians 2:8-11 Hebrews 13:13 John 12:27-28 Hebrews 5:9 Hebrews 10:14 Acts 2:25-26 Matthew 27:27-50 Hebrews 11:36 Psalm 69:19-20 Isaiah 53:10-12 John 17:1-4 Mark 9:12 Hebrews 10:33 Matthew 26:67-68 Hebrews 2:7-10 Isaiah 50:6-7 Mark 9:24 Matthew 20:18-20 Isaiah 49:6-7 Psalm 22:6-8 Isaiah 31:1 Hebrews 1:13 Hebrews 7:19 Hebrews 8:1 Luke 23:11 John 12:32 Luke 23:35-39 1 Peter 1:11 John 6:40 Matthew 20:28 John 13:31-32 Isaiah 8:17 2 Timothy 4:8 Psalm 16:9-11 Mark 14:36 Isaiah 45:22 John 8:56 Matthew 16:21 John 12:24 Luke 17:5 John 13:3 John 1:29 Hebrews 10:5-12 1 Peter 4:14-16 Psalm 110:1 Jude 1:21 Revelation 1:11 Revelation 1:17 Revelation 1:8 1 John 1:1-3 Ephesians 2:16 Acts 5:41 Hebrews 12:3 Zechariah 12:10 Acts 2:36 1 Corinthians 1:7-8 -
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Therefore, if you would escape becoming weary and faint-hearted, compare your own sufferings with those of Him who endured such hostility directed against Him by sinners.
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2 Corinthians 4:16 Galatians 6:9 John 15:18-24 Revelation 2:3 1 Corinthians 15:58 Hebrews 12:5 Hebrews 12:2 Hebrews 3:1 Deuteronomy 20:3 Isaiah 50:4 Proverbs 24:10 1 Samuel 12:24 John 5:16 Matthew 10:24-25 Isaiah 40:30-31 Matthew 12:24 Matthew 11:19 Matthew 22:15 2 Thessalonians 3:13 John 10:31-39 John 8:13 Matthew 15:2 John 7:12 Luke 13:13-14 Matthew 21:15-16 Luke 16:14 Matthew 21:46 Luke 4:28-29 Matthew 21:23 Luke 19:39-40 Luke 11:15-16 Luke 2:34 John 8:48-49 Luke 11:53-54 2 Corinthians 4:1 John 8:59 John 9:40 John 8:52 John 12:9-10 Luke 14:1 Luke 5:21 John 18:22 2 Timothy 2:7-8 Luke 15:2 - 4 In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted so as to endanger your lives;
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and you have quite forgotten the encouraging words which are addressed to you as sons, and which say, “My son, do not think lightly of the Lord’s discipline, and do not faint when He corrects you;
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Proverbs 3:11-12 Job 5:17-18 Deuteronomy 4:9-10 Revelation 3:19 1 Corinthians 11:32 James 1:12 Psalm 119:83 Psalm 119:109 Hebrews 12:3-4 Psalm 94:12 Psalm 118:18 2 Corinthians 4:8-9 2 Samuel 6:7-10 Joshua 7:7-11 2 Corinthians 12:9-10 Job 34:31 Psalm 6:1-2 1 Chronicles 15:12-13 1 Chronicles 13:9-13 Psalm 119:16 Psalm 119:75 Jeremiah 31:18 Proverbs 4:5 Hebrews 12:7 Luke 24:8 Luke 24:6 Proverbs 3:1 Matthew 16:9-10 - 6 for those whom the Lord loves He disciplines: and He scourges every son whom He acknowledges.”
- 7 The sufferings that you are enduring are for your discipline. is dealing with you as sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?
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And if you are left without discipline, of which every true son has had a share, that shows that you are bastards, and not true sons.
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Besides this, our earthly fathers used to discipline us and we treated them with respect, and shall we not be still more submissive to the Father of our spirits, and live?
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Numbers 16:22 Zechariah 12:1 Exodus 20:12 Deuteronomy 21:18-21 Proverbs 30:17 Deuteronomy 27:16 Leviticus 19:3 Ephesians 6:1-4 Isaiah 38:16 Numbers 27:16 John 3:6 1 Peter 5:6 Malachi 1:6 Romans 9:3 James 4:10 Ecclesiastes 12:7 Romans 1:3 Romans 9:5 Ezekiel 22:7 Isaiah 42:5 Isaiah 57:16 Acts 2:30 James 4:7 Job 12:10 - 10 It is true that they disciplined us for a few years according as they thought fit; but He does it for our certain good, in order that we may become sharers in His own character.
- 11 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 —namely, .
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Therefore strengthen the drooping hands and paralysed knees,
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but may rather be restored. Persistently strive for with all men, and for that growth in holiness apart from which no one will see the Lord.
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2 Corinthians 7:1 1 Peter 1:15-16 3 John 1:11 1 Peter 3:11 Romans 6:22 1 Thessalonians 4:7 Romans 14:19 Ephesians 5:5 Revelation 22:11-15 Mark 9:50 1 Timothy 6:11 Matthew 5:8-9 Hebrews 12:10 1 Peter 3:13 2 Peter 3:11 Revelation 22:3-4 Isaiah 51:1 Romans 12:18 Job 19:26 Proverbs 16:7 Genesis 32:30 Proverbs 17:14 Ephesians 4:1-8 Psalm 120:6 James 3:17-18 1 Thessalonians 5:15 Revelation 21:24-27 Luke 1:75 Psalm 94:15 1 Corinthians 1:10 Genesis 13:7-9 Psalm 34:14 Psalm 133:1 Job 33:26 2 Peter 3:18 Isaiah 11:6-9 1 Corinthians 13:12 Proverbs 15:1 Psalm 38:20 Philippians 3:12 2 Timothy 2:22 Galatians 5:22-23 1 Thessalonians 3:13 1 John 3:2-3 Galatians 3:21 2 Corinthians 6:17 -
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Be carefully on your guard lest there be any one who falls back from the of ; lest any root bearing bitter fruit spring up and cause trouble among you, and through it the whole brotherhood be defiled;
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Galatians 5:4 Hebrews 3:12 Deuteronomy 29:18 2 Corinthians 6:1 1 Corinthians 15:33 1 Corinthians 5:6 Jude 1:20-21 2 John 1:8 Hebrews 4:1 2 Peter 3:14 Jeremiah 2:21 Hebrews 10:23-35 2 Timothy 2:16-17 2 Peter 2:1-2 2 Peter 3:11 Isaiah 5:4 Hebrews 6:11 Ephesians 5:3 Hebrews 4:11 1 Corinthians 10:12 Proverbs 4:23 1 Kings 14:16 1 Corinthians 13:8 Isaiah 5:7 2 Peter 1:10 2 Peter 2:18 Joshua 7:25-26 Galatians 2:13 Colossians 3:5 2 Corinthians 13:5 Hebrews 2:1-2 1 Corinthians 9:24-27 Luke 22:32 Joshua 22:17-20 Acts 20:30-31 Matthew 7:16-18 Deuteronomy 4:9 Exodus 32:21 Deuteronomy 32:32 Joshua 6:18 -
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lest there be a fornicator, or an unElohimly person like , who, in return for a single meal, parted with the birthright which belonged to him.
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Hebrews 13:4 Genesis 25:31-34 Acts 15:29 1 Corinthians 10:8 Galatians 5:19-21 1 Corinthians 5:9-11 Ephesians 5:5 Genesis 27:36 1 Thessalonians 4:3-7 Colossians 3:5 1 Corinthians 5:1-6 Revelation 2:20-23 1 Corinthians 6:15-20 Ephesians 5:3 Revelation 22:15 2 Corinthians 12:21 Acts 15:20 Revelation 21:8 Mark 7:21 - 17 For you that even afterwards, when he wished to secure the , he was rejected; for he found no opportunity for undoing what he had done, though he sought the earnestly with tears.
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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;”
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and so terrible was the scene that said, “I tremble with .”
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On the contrary you have come to Mount , and to the city of the ever-living , the heavenly , to countless hosts of angels,
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Galatians 4:26 Philippians 3:20 Psalm 48:2 Revelation 14:1 2 Kings 19:4 Jude 1:14 Revelation 21:2 Revelation 21:10 Revelation 22:19 Revelation 3:12 1 Thessalonians 1:9 Daniel 7:10 Isaiah 51:16 Psalm 87:3 Joel 2:32 Matthew 5:35 Revelation 5:11-12 Psalm 132:13-14 Isaiah 59:20 Hosea 1:10 Hebrews 3:12 Psalm 68:17 Isaiah 14:32 Psalm 2:6 Matthew 16:16 Psalm 84:2 Isaiah 12:6 Revelation 7:2 Isaiah 60:14 Hebrews 11:10 Isaiah 28:16 Romans 11:26 Deuteronomy 5:26 Deuteronomy 33:2 Hebrews 13:14 Hebrews 10:31 Daniel 6:26 Isaiah 51:11 Hebrews 9:14 Joshua 3:10 Jeremiah 10:10 Romans 9:26 Psalm 42:2 -
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to the great festal gathering and Church of the first-born, whose names are recorded in Heaven, and to a Judge who is of all, and to the spirits of righteous men made ,
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Luke 10:20 Exodus 4:22 Genesis 18:25 Psalm 94:2 Hebrews 11:40 Ephesians 1:22 Hebrews 6:10-12 Revelation 13:8 James 1:18 2 Corinthians 5:8 Psalm 89:27 Philippians 1:21-23 Colossians 1:12 Ephesians 5:24-27 1 Timothy 3:5 Psalm 89:7 Hebrews 9:27 Ecclesiastes 12:7 1 Peter 2:23 1 Corinthians 15:54 John 5:27 2 Thessalonians 1:5-7 Acts 20:28 Psalm 69:28 Philippians 4:3 Revelation 7:14-17 Exodus 13:2 Psalm 96:13 Philippians 3:12-21 Exodus 32:32 Colossians 1:24 Psalm 111:1 Hebrews 11:4 Psalm 50:5-6 Jeremiah 31:9 Deuteronomy 21:17 1 Corinthians 15:49 Revelation 20:15 1 Corinthians 13:12 Psalm 98:9 Revelation 14:4 Matthew 25:31-34 - 24 and to the negotiator of a new Covenant, and to the sprinkled which speaks in more gracious tones than that of .
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Be careful not to refuse to listen to Him who is speaking to you. For if they of old did not escape unpunished when they refused to listen to him who spoke on earth, much less shall we escape who turn a deaf ear to Him who now speaks from Heaven.
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Hebrews 8:5 Hebrews 11:7 Zechariah 7:11 Ezekiel 5:6 1 Thessalonians 5:15 Acts 7:35 1 Kings 12:16 Exodus 20:22 2 Timothy 4:4 Proverbs 13:18 Matthew 17:5 Proverbs 8:33 Joshua 22:16 Jeremiah 11:10 Matthew 8:4 2 Chronicles 7:19 Hebrews 3:17 Deuteronomy 30:17 Hebrews 2:1-3 Isaiah 48:6 Proverbs 15:32 Hebrews 10:28-29 Exodus 16:29 Proverbs 1:24 Numbers 32:15 Proverbs 1:32 Isaiah 64:9 Revelation 22:9 1 Peter 1:22 Revelation 19:10 -
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His voice then shook the earth, but now we have His promise, “Yet again I will, once for all, cause not only the earth to tremble, but Heaven also.”
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Here the words “Yet again, once for all” denote the removal of the things which can be shaken—created things—in order that the things which cannot be shaken may remain.
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Therefore, receiving, as we now do, a which cannot be shaken, let us cherish thankfulness so that we may ever offer to an acceptable service, with Elohimly reverence and awe.
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Daniel 2:44 Hebrews 5:7 Hebrews 13:15 Isaiah 56:7 1 Peter 1:4-5 Matthew 25:34 Hebrews 10:22-23 Hebrews 3:6 Romans 12:1-2 1 Peter 2:5 Proverbs 28:24 Leviticus 10:3 Revelation 5:10 Psalm 89:7 Psalm 2:11 Hebrews 4:16 Daniel 7:27 Psalm 19:14 Romans 11:20 1 Peter 2:20 Luke 1:33 1 Peter 1:17 Hebrews 10:19 Isaiah 9:7 Ephesians 5:10 Daniel 7:14 Ephesians 1:6 Luke 17:20-21 Revelation 15:4 Revelation 1:6 Philippians 4:18 - 29 For our is also a consuming fire.