1 Let *us* also therefore, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, laying aside every weight, and sin which so easily entangles us, run with endurance the race that lies before us,
2 looking stedfastly on Jesus the leader and completer of faith: who, in view of the joy lying before him, endured {the} cross, having despised {the} shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
3 For consider well him who endured so great contradiction from sinners against himself, that ye be not weary, fainting in your minds.
4 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, wrestling against sin.
5 And ye have quite forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons: My son, despise not {the} chastening of {the} Lord, nor faint {when} reproved by him;
6 for whom {the} Lord loves he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.
7 Ye endure for chastening, God conducts himself towards you as towards sons; for who is the son that the father chastens not?
8 But if ye are without chastening, of which all have been made partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
9 Moreover we have had the fathers of our flesh as chasteners, and we reverenced {them}; shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?
10 For they indeed chastened for a few days, as seemed good to them; but he for profit, in order to the partaking of his holiness.
11 But no chastening at the time seems to be {matter} of joy, but of grief; but afterwards yields {the} peaceful fruit of righteousness to those exercised by it.
12 Wherefore lift up the hands that hang down, and the failing knees;
13 and make straight paths for your feet, that that which is lame be not turned aside; but that rather it may be healed.
14 Pursue peace with all, and holiness, without which no one shall see the Lord:
15 watching lest {there be} any one who lacks the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble {you}, and many be defiled by it;
16 lest {there be} any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one meal sold his birthright;
17 for ye know that also afterwards, desiring to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, (for he found no place for repentance) although he sought it earnestly with tears.
18 For ye have not come to {the mount} that might be touched and was all on fire, and to obscurity, and darkness, and tempest,
19 and trumpet's sound, and voice of words; which they that heard, excusing themselves, declined {the} word being addressed to them any more:
20 (for they were not able to bear what was enjoined: And if a beast should touch the mountain, it shall be stoned;
21 and, so fearful was the sight, Moses said, I am exceedingly afraid and full of trembling;)
22 but ye have come to mount Zion; and to {the} city of {the} living God, heavenly Jerusalem; and to myriads of angels,
23 the universal gathering; and to {the} assembly of the firstborn {who are} registered in heaven; and to God, judge of all; and to {the} spirits of just {men} made perfect;
24 and to Jesus, mediator of a new covenant; and to {the} blood of sprinkling, speaking better than Abel.
25 See that ye refuse not him that speaks. For if those did not escape who had refused him who uttered the oracles on earth, much more we who turn away from him {who does so} from heaven:
26 whose voice then shook the earth; but now he has promised, saying, Yet once will *I* shake not only the earth, but also the heaven.
27 But this Yet once, signifies the removing of what is shaken, as being made, that what is not shaken may remain.
28 Wherefore let us, receiving a kingdom not to be shaken, have grace, by which let us serve God acceptably with reverence and fear.
29 For also our God {is} a consuming fire.
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。