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Run with Endurance: God’s Disciplining Love

Hebrews 12:1-13

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Chapter 12
1 Therefore, we also, with such a great cloud of witnesses surrounding us, having laid aside every weight and the easily entangling sin, let us run with endurance the race that lies before us. 2 looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 Consider the one who endured such opposition from sinners against themselves, so that you do not grow weary in your souls and become faint. 4 You have not yet resisted to the point of bloodshed in your struggle against sin. 5 and you have forgotten the exhortation that speaks to you as to sons: “My son, do not treat lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor faint when reproved by him.” 6 For whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, but he scourges every son whom he receives. 7 Endure discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? 8 But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons. 9 On the one hand, we had fathers who were of our flesh to discipline us, and we respected them. How much more will we submit to the Father of spirits and live? 10 For they indeed disciplined us according to what seemed good to them for a few days, but he disciplines us for our benefit, toward sharing in his holiness. 11 But all discipline for the present indeed does not seem to be a matter of joy but of sorrow; but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. 12 Therefore, straighten up the relaxed hands and the paralyzed knees. 13 and make straight tracks for your feet, so that what is lame might not be put out of joint but rather be healed.