Hebreus 12

1 Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us, 2 looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

3 For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls. 4 You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin. 5 You have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children,

"My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord,

nor faint when you are reproved by him;

6 for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines,

and chastises every son whom he receives."✝12:6 Proverbs 3:11-12

7 It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline? 8 But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then you are illegitimate, and not children. 9 Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live? 10 For they indeed for a few days disciplined us as seemed good to them, but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness. 11 All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. 12 Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,✝12:12 Isaiah 35:3 13 and make straight paths for your feet,✝12:13 Proverbs 4:26 so what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.

14 Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord, 15 looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you and many be defiled by it, 16 lest there be any sexually immoral person or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal. 17 For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears.

18 For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm, 19 the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which those who heard it begged that not one more word should be spoken to them, 20 for they could not stand that which was commanded, "If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned".*12:20 TR adds "or shot with an arrow"✝12:20 Exodus 19:12-13 21 So fearful was the appearance that Moses said, "I am terrified and trembling."✝12:21 Deuteronomy 9:19

22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels, 23 to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, 24 to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant,✝12:24 Jeremiah 31:31 and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.

25 See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven, 26 whose voice shook the earth then, but now he has promised, saying, "Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heavens."✝12:26 Haggai 2:6 27 This phrase, "Yet once more" signifies 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 Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let’s have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe, 29 for our God is a consuming fire.✝12:29 Deuteronomy 4:24

Ko te Atua, tō Tātou Matua

1 Nā, i tēnei kapua nui o ngā kaiwhakaatu e karapoti nei i a tātou, whakarērea e tātou ngā whakataimaha katoa, me te hara whakaeke tata, kia manawanui hoki tātou ki te oma i te omanga e takoto nei i tō tātou aroaro. 2 Me te titiro pū anō ki a Īhu, ki te kaitīmata, ki te kaiwhakaoti i te whakapono; i whakaaro hoki ia ki te hari i tōna aroaro, ā, whakamanawanui ana ki te rīpeka, whakahāwea ana ki te whakamā, nā, kua noho ki matau o te torōna o te Atua.

3 Whakaaroa hoki ia i whakamanawanui nei ki taua totohe nui a te hunga hara ki a ia, kei hōhā ō koutou ngākau, kei ngākaukore koutou. 4 Ko tā koutou pakanga, kāhore anō kia tae noa ki te toto i a koutou e whawhai nā ki te hara. 5 Ā, kua wareware koutou ki te kupu whakahau e kōrero nei ki a koutou, me te mea he tama koutou,

"E tāku tama, kaua e whakahāwea ki tā te Ariki papaki;

kei ngākaukore hoki ina rīria e ia.

6 E papaki ana hoki te Ariki ki tāna e aroha ai,

e whiua ana hoki e ia ngā tama katoa

e whakatamarikitia ana ki a ia."

7 Hei pakinga tā koutou e manawanui ai; e rite ana tā te Atua meatanga ki a koutou ki tāna ki ngā tama tupu. Ko wai hoki te tama e kore e pākia e tōna pāpā? 8 Ki te kāhore ia ō koutou pakinga, te mea e whakawhiwhia ana ki te katoa, he pōriro koutou, ehara i te tama. 9 Tētahi, he mātua anō ō tātou nō te wāhi ki te kikokiko, he mea papaki tātou nā rātou; i hopohopo anō tātou ki a rātou. Kaua ianei e nui noa atu tō tātou ngohengohe ki te Matua o ngā wairua, kia ora ai? 10 Ko tā rātou papaki hoki he torutoru nei ngā rā, he mea anō nā tā rātou ake i whakaaro ai; ko tā tēnei ia hei pai mō tātou, kia whiwhi ai tātou ki tōna tapu. 11 Ko ngā pakinga katoa, e kore e kīia ināianei hei whakahari, engari hei whakapōuri; muri iho ia ka puta mai te hua rangimārie o te tika, ki te hunga e whakamahia ana ki taua mea.

He Tohutohu Whakatūpato Hoki

12 Heoi, kia ara ngā ringaringa kua tukua iho, me ngā turi ngoikore, 13 hangā hoki ētahi huarahi tika mō ō koutou waewae, kei whakapeaua kētia atu te kopa; engari kia ora ake i te mate.

14 Whāia te rongo kia mau ki te katoa, me te tapu hoki, ki te kāhore hoki tēnei e kore tētahi tangata e kite i te Ariki. 15 Me te titiro mārie kei hapa tētahi i tō te Atua aroha noa; kei pihi ake tētahi pakiaka o te kawa hei whakararuraru, e poke ai te tokomaha. 16 Kei moepuku tētahi, kei whakarihariha rānei, kei pērā me Ēhau; i hokona rā e ia tōna mātāmuatanga ki te kainga kotahi. 17 E mātau ana hoki koutou ki tōna hiahia i muri kia riro i a ia te manaaki, ā, kapea ana ia. Kīhai hoki i kitea he wāhi mō te rīpenetā; i rapua mārietia anō e ia me te heke anō o ngā roimata.

18 Ehara hoki i te mea kua tae koutou ki te maunga e taea te whakapā atu, ki te ahi e kā ana, ki te pango kerekere, ki te pōuri, ki te tūpuhi, 19 ki te tangi o te tētere, ki te reo e kōrero ana; i īnoi rā te hunga i rangona ai kia kaua he kupu ki a rātou i muri iho. 20 Kīhai hoki rātou i kaha ake ki te mea i whakaritea mai, "Nā, ahakoa he kararehe e pā atu ki te maunga, me āki ki te kōhatu." 21 Koia anō te mataku o te mea i puta mai rā, i mea ai a Mohi, "Mataku rawa ahau, wiri rawa."

22 Engari kua tae nei koutou ki Maunga Hiona, ki te pā o te Atua ora, ki Hiruhārama i te rangi, ki ngā mano tini o ngā anahera, 23 ki te huihui nui, ki te hāhi o ngā mātāmua, kua oti te tuhituhi ki te rangi, ki te Atua hoki, ki te kaiwhakawā o ngā tāngata katoa, ki ngā wairua anō o te hunga tika kua oti te mea kia tino tika, 24 ki a Īhu anō hoki, ki te takawaenga o te kawenata hou, ki ngā toto o te tāuhiuhinga, he pai ake nei ngā kōrero i tō Āpera.

25 Kia mahara kei whakarere koutou i tēnei e kōrero mai nei. Ki te mea hoki kīhai i mawhiti te hunga i paopao ki tērā i kōrero rā i runga i te whenua, inā e kore rawa anō tātou, ki te tahuri kē atu i tēnei kua kōrero mai nei i te rangi. 26 Ngāueue ana te whenua i tōna reo i reira; ināianei ia kua puaki tāna kupu whakaari, kua mea ia, "Kia kotahi anō meatanga, ā, ehara i te mea ko te whenua anake, ko te rangi anō hoki tāku e whakangāueue ai." 27 Ko taua kupu nei hoki, "Kia kotahi meatanga," hei whakakite i te putanga kētanga o ngā mea ka whakangāueuetia rā, he mea hanga hoki, mau tonu iho ai ngā mea e kore nei e whakangāueuetia.

28 Nā, ka riro nei i a tātou he kīngitanga e kore e taea te whakangāueue, kia whiwhi tātou ki te aroha noa e manakohia mai ai tā tātou e mahi nei ki te Atua i runga i te hopohopo, i te wehi; 29 he ahi hoki e kai ana tō tātou Atua.