1 所以， 我们既然有这么多的见证人， 像云彩围绕着我们， 就应该脱下各样的拖累， 和容易缠住我们的罪， 以坚忍的心奔跑那摆在我们面前的赛程；
2 专一注视耶稣， 就是我们信心的创始者和完成者。他因为那摆在面前的喜乐， 就忍受了十字架， 轻看了羞辱， 现在就坐在 神宝座的右边。
3 这位忍受罪人那样顶撞的耶稣， 你们要仔细思想， 免得疲倦灰心。
4 你们与罪恶斗争， 还没有对抗到流血的地步；
5 你们又忘记了那劝你们好像劝儿子的话， 说： "我儿！ 你不可轻看主的管教， 受责备的时候也不要灰心；
6 因为主所爱的， 他必管教， 他又鞭打所收纳的每一个儿子。"
7 为了接受管教， 你们要忍受， 因为 神待你们好像待儿子一样； 哪有儿子不受父亲管教的呢？
8 作儿子的都受过管教。如果你们没有受管教， 就是私生子， 不是儿子了。
9 还有， 肉身的父亲管教我们， 我们尚且敬重他们； 何况那万灵的父， 我们不是更要顺服他而得生吗？
10 肉身的父亲照着自己的意思管教我们， 只有短暂的日子； 唯有 神管教我们， 是为着我们的好处， 使我们在他的圣洁上有分。
11 但是一切管教， 在当时似乎不觉得快乐， 反觉得痛苦； 后来却为那些经过这种操练的人， 结出平安的果子来， 就是义。
12 所以， 你们要把下垂的手和发软的腿挺直起来；
13 也要把你们所走的道路修直， 使瘸子不至于扭脚， 反而得到复原。
14 你们要竭力寻求与众人和睦， 并且要竭力追求圣洁。如果没有圣洁， 谁也不能见主。
15 你们要小心， 免得有人失去了 神的恩典； 免得有苦根长起来缠绕你们， 因而污染了许多人；
16 又免得有人成为淫乱的和贪恋世俗的， 好像以扫一样， 为了一点点食物， 竟把自己长子的名分出卖了。
17 你们知道， 后来以扫想要承受祝福， 却被拒绝了； 他虽然带着眼泪寻求， 还是没有反悔的余地。
18 你们不是来到那座摸得着的山。那里有烈火、密云、幽暗、暴风、
19 号筒的响声和说话的声音； 那些听见这声音的人， 都请求 神不要再向他们多说话；
20 因为他们担当不起那命令： "就是走兽挨近这山， 也要用石头把它打死。"
21 当时， 显出的景象是那么可怕， 连摩西也说： "我非常恐惧战兢。"
22 你们却是来到锡安山和永活的 神的城， 就是天上的耶路撒冷； 在那里有千万的天使聚集，
23 有名字登记在天上众长子的教会， 有审判众人的 神， 有被成全的义人的灵魂，
24 有新约的中保耶稣， 还有他所洒的血。这血所传的信息比亚伯的血所传的更美。
25 你们要谨慎， 不要弃绝那位说话的， 因为从前的人弃绝了那位在地上警戒他们的， 尚且不能逃罪； 何况现在我们背弃那位从天上警戒我们的呢？
26 当时他的声音震动了地； 现在他却应许说： "下一次， 我不但要震动地， 还要震动天。"
27 "下一次"这句话， 是表明那些被震动的， 要像被造之物那样被除去， 好使那些不能震动的可以留存，
28 因此， 我们既然领受了不能震动的国， 就应该感恩， 照着 神所喜悦的， 用虔诚敬畏的心事奉他；
29 因为我们的 神是烈火。
1 Therefore let us also, seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, 2 looking unto Jesus the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising shame, and hath sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 For consider him that hath endured such gainsaying of sinners against himself, that ye wax not weary, fainting in your souls. 4 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin: 5 and ye have forgotten the exhortation which reasoneth with you as with sons,
My son, regard not lightly the chastening of the Lord,
Nor faint when thou art reproved of him;
6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth,
And scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
7 It is for chastening that ye endure; God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father chasteneth not? 8 But if ye are without chastening, whereof all have been made partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. 9 Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? 10 For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness. 11 All chastening seemeth for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yieldeth peaceable fruit unto them that have been exercised thereby, even the fruit of righteousness. 12 Wherefore lift up the hands that hang down, and the palsied knees; 13 and make straight paths for your feet, that that which is lame be not turned out of the way, but rather be healed.
14 Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man shall see the Lord: 15 looking carefully lest there be any man that falleth short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby the many be defiled; 16 lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one mess of meat sold his own birthright. 17 For ye know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected; for he found no place for a change of mind in his father, though he sought it diligently with tears.
18 For ye are not come unto a mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, 19 and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard entreated that no word more should be spoken unto them; 20 for they could not endure that which was enjoined, If even a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned; 21 and so fearful was the appearance, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake: 22 but ye are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable hosts of angels, 23 to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, 24 and to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better than that of Abel. 25 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not when they refused him that warned them on earth, much more shall not we escape who turn away from him that warneth from heaven: 26 whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more will I make to tremble not the earth only, but also the heaven. 27 And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain. 28 Wherefore, receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us have grace, whereby we may offer service well-pleasing to God with reverence and awe: 29 for our God is a consuming fire.