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專一注視耶穌

12 所以,我們既然有這麼多的見證人,像雲彩圍繞著我們,就應該脫下各樣的拖累,和容易纏住我們的罪,以堅忍的心奔跑那擺在我們面前的賽程; 專一注視耶穌,就是那位信心的創造者和完成者。他因為那擺在面前的喜樂,就忍受了十字架,輕看了羞辱,現在就坐在 神寶座的右邊。 這位忍受罪人那樣頂撞的耶穌,你們要仔細思想,免得疲倦灰心。

主必管教他所愛的

你們與罪惡鬥爭,還沒有對抗到流血的地步; 你們又忘記了那勸你們好像勸兒子的話,說:

“我兒!你不可輕看主的管教,

受責備的時候也不要灰心;

因為主所愛的,他必管教,

他又鞭打所收納的每一個兒子。”

為了接受管教,你們要忍受,因為 神待你們好像待兒子一樣;哪有兒子不受父親管教的呢? 作兒子的都受過管教。如果你們沒有受管教,就是私生子,不是兒子了。 還有,肉身的父親管教我們,我們尚且敬重他們;何況那萬靈的父,我們不是更要順服他而得生嗎? 10 肉身的父親照著自己的意思管教我們,只有短暫的日子;唯有 神管教我們,是為著我們的好處,使我們在他的聖潔上有分。 11 但是一切管教,在當時似乎不覺得快樂,反覺得痛苦;後來卻為那些經過這種操練的人,結出平安的果子來,就是義。

把下垂的手發軟的腿挺起來

12 所以,你們要把下垂的手和發軟的腿挺直起來; 13 也要把你們所走的道路修直,使瘸子不至於扭腳,反而得到復原。 14 你們要竭力尋求與眾人和睦,並且要竭力追求聖潔。如果沒有聖潔,誰也不能見主。 15 你們要小心,免得有人失去了 神的恩典;免得有苦根長起來纏繞你們,因而污染了許多人; 16 又免得有人成為淫亂的和貪戀世俗的,好像以掃一樣,為了一點點食物,竟把自己長子的名分出賣了。 17 你們知道,後來以掃想要承受祝福,卻被拒絕了;他雖然帶著眼淚尋求,還是沒有反悔的餘地。

不可違背那警戒人的 神

18 你們不是來到那座摸得著的山。那裡有烈火、密雲、幽暗、暴風、 19 號筒的響聲和說話的聲音;那些聽見這聲音的人,都請求 神不要再向他們多說話; 20 因為他們擔當不起那命令:“就是走獸挨近這山,也要用石頭把牠打死。” 21 當時,顯出的景象是那麼可怕,連摩西也說:“我非常恐懼戰兢。” 22 你們卻是來到錫安山和永活的 神的城,就是天上的耶路撒冷;在那裡有千萬的天使聚集, 23 有名字登記在天上眾長子的教會,有審判眾人的 神,有被成全的義人的靈魂, 24 有新約的中保耶穌,還有他所灑的血。這血所傳的信息比亞伯的血所傳的更美。

25 你們要謹慎,不要棄絕那位說話的,因為從前的人棄絕了那位在地上警戒他們的,尚且不能逃罪;何況現在我們背棄那位從天上警戒我們的呢? 26 當時他的聲音震動了地;現在他卻應許說:“下一次,我不但要震動地,還要震動天。” 27 “下一次”這句話,是表明那些被震動的,要像被造之物那樣被除去,好使那些不能震動的可以留存, 28 因此,我們既然領受了不能震動的國,就應該感恩,照著 神所喜悅的,用虔誠敬畏的心事奉他; 29 因為我們的 神是烈火。

Jesús, modelo de constancia

12 Estamos, pues, rodeados de una ingente muchedumbre de testigos. Así que desembaracémonos de todo impedimento, liberémonos del pecado que nos cerca y participemos con perseverancia en la carrera que se nos brinda. Hagámoslo con los ojos puestos en Jesús, origen y plenitud de nuestra fe. Jesús, que, renunciando a una vida placentera, afrontó sin acobardarse la ignominia de la cruz y ahora está sentado junto al trono de Dios. Tengan, por tanto, en cuenta a quien soportó una oposición tan fuerte de parte de los pecadores. Si lo hacen así, el desaliento no se apoderará de ustedes.

Pedagogía paternal de Dios

En realidad, aún no han llegado ustedes a derramar sangre en su lucha contra el pecado, pero sí han olvidado la exhortación paternal que les dirige la Escritura: Hijo mío, no desprecies la corrección del Señor ni pierdas el ánimo cuando él te reprenda, pues el Señor corrige a quien ama y castiga a quien reconoce como hijo. Acepten ustedes la corrección, que es señal de que Dios los trata como a hijos. ¿Hay, en efecto, algún padre que no corrija a su hijo? Pero si quedan privados de la corrección que todos reciben, es que son bastardos y no hijos legítimos.

Además, si en la tierra hemos tenido unos padres que nos han corregido y, sin embargo, los hemos respetado, ¿no deberemos, con mucha más razón, someternos al Padre sobrenatural si queremos tener vida? 10 Aquellos, en efecto, nos educaban según sus criterios para una vida corta; este, en cambio, nos educa para algo provechoso, a saber, para que participemos de su propia santidad. 11 Ninguna corrección resulta placentera cuando se recibe; al contrario, es desagradable. Mas a la postre, a quienes se sirven de ella para ejercitarse, les reporta frutos de paz y rectitud. 12 Así pues, ármense de valor y no se dejen vencer por el cansancio, 13 y encaminen sus pasos por senderos llanos para que el pie cojo no sufra una nueva torcedura, sino que pueda, más bien, sanar.

V.— JESUCRISTO, FUENTE Y MODELO DE VIDA CRISTIANA (12,14—13,19)

Fidelidad a la vocación cristiana

14 Procuren estar en paz con todos y llevar una vida de consagrados; sin ello nadie verá al Señor. 15 Manténganse vigilantes para que nadie quede privado de la gracia de Dios; para que ninguna planta dañina, capaz de perturbar y emponzoñar a toda una multitud, crezca entre ustedes; 16 para que nadie viva entregado a la lujuria o a una conducta irreligiosa como Esaú que, por un solo plato de comida, cedió sus derechos de primogénito. 17 Más tarde, como saben, quiso recibir en herencia la bendición, pero en vano; aunque lo suplicó entre lágrimas, ya no pudo cambiar lo que había hecho.

18 Ustedes no se han acercado a una montaña de esta tierra. No han tenido que enfrentarse a un fuego ardiente, a las oscuras tinieblas o al fragor de la tormenta; 19 tampoco al clamor de la trompeta o al sonido de aquellas palabras que, al oírlo, hizo suplicar a los israelitas que no les hablara Dios. 20 Y es que les resultaba intolerable lo que se les había prescrito: Cualquiera que ponga el pie en la montaña, aunque se trate de un animal, morirá apedreado. 21 Era tan estremecedor el espectáculo, que el mismo Moisés exclamó: Estoy aterrorizado y lleno de miedo.

No rechazar al Señor

22 Ustedes, en cambio, se han acercado a la montaña de Sión, a la ciudad del Dios viviente, la Jerusalén celestial, a la multitud festiva de los ángeles, 23 a la asamblea de quienes han sido inscritos como primeros ciudadanos de los cielos, a Dios que es juez de todos, a los espíritus de los que, habiendo vivido rectamente, han alcanzado la meta, 24 a Jesús, en fin, mediador de una alianza nueva, cuya sangre, rociada sobre nosotros, clama con más elocuencia que la de Abel.

25 Estén, pues, atentos a no rechazar la voz de Dios. Porque si los que rechazaron a quien hablaba desde la tierra no consiguieron escapar, ¿qué sucederá con nosotros si volvemos la espalda a quien nos habla desde el cielo? 26 Entonces su voz hizo temblar la tierra; ahora mantiene lo que prometió cuando dijo: Haré temblar una vez más no sólo la tierra, sino también el cielo. 27 Con las palabras “una vez más” indica que lo inestable, por ser criatura, va a ser transformado y sólo permanecerá lo inconmovible. 28 Y puesto que somos nosotros los que recibimos ese reino inconmovible, seamos agradecidos, tributemos a Dios un culto agradable con reverencia y respeto. 29 Que no en vano nuestro Dios es un fuego devorador.

12 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us 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,

Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.

Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.

And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:

For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?

But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

10 For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.

11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.

12 Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;

13 And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.

14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:

15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;

16 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.

17 For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.

18 For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,

19 And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:

20 (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:

21 And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)

22 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,

23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written 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 the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.

25 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:

26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.

27 And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.

28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:

29 For our God is a consuming fire.

12 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run(A) with perseverance(B) the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus,(C) the pioneer(D) and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross,(E) scorning its shame,(F) and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.(G) Consider him who endured such opposition from sinners, so that you will not grow weary(H) and lose heart.

God Disciplines His Children

In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.(I) And have you completely forgotten this word of encouragement that addresses you as a father addresses his son? It says,

“My son, do not make light of the Lord’s discipline,
    and do not lose heart(J) when he rebukes you,
because the Lord disciplines the one he loves,(K)
    and he chastens everyone he accepts as his son.”[a](L)

Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as his children.(M) For what children are not disciplined by their father? If you are not disciplined—and everyone undergoes discipline(N)—then you are not legitimate, not true sons and daughters at all. Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us and we respected them for it. How much more should we submit to the Father of spirits(O) and live!(P) 10 They disciplined us for a little while as they thought best; but God disciplines us for our good, in order that we may share in his holiness.(Q) 11 No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace(R) for those who have been trained by it.

12 Therefore, strengthen your feeble arms and weak knees.(S) 13 “Make level paths for your feet,”[b](T) so that the lame may not be disabled, but rather healed.(U)

Warning and Encouragement

14 Make every effort to live in peace with everyone(V) and to be holy;(W) without holiness no one will see the Lord.(X) 15 See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God(Y) and that no bitter root(Z) grows up to cause trouble and defile many. 16 See that no one is sexually immoral,(AA) or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his inheritance rights as the oldest son.(AB) 17 Afterward, as you know, when he wanted to inherit this blessing, he was rejected. Even though he sought the blessing with tears,(AC) he could not change what he had done.

The Mountain of Fear and the Mountain of Joy

18 You have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire; to darkness, gloom and storm;(AD) 19 to a trumpet blast(AE) or to such a voice speaking words(AF) that those who heard it begged that no further word be spoken to them,(AG) 20 because they could not bear what was commanded: “If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned to death.”[c](AH) 21 The sight was so terrifying that Moses said, “I am trembling with fear.”[d](AI)

22 But you have come to Mount Zion,(AJ) to the city(AK) of the living God,(AL) the heavenly Jerusalem.(AM) You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly, 23 to the church of the firstborn,(AN) whose names are written in heaven.(AO) You have come to God, the Judge of all,(AP) to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,(AQ) 24 to Jesus the mediator(AR) of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood(AS) that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.(AT)

25 See to it that you do not refuse(AU) him who speaks.(AV) If they did not escape when they refused him who warned(AW) them on earth, how much less will we, if we turn away from him who warns us from heaven?(AX) 26 At that time his voice shook the earth,(AY) but now he has promised, “Once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens.”[e](AZ) 27 The words “once more” indicate the removing of what can be shaken(BA)—that is, created things—so that what cannot be shaken may remain.

28 Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken,(BB) let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe,(BC) 29 for our “God is a consuming fire.”[f](BD)

Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 12:6 Prov. 3:11,12 (see Septuagint)
  2. Hebrews 12:13 Prov. 4:26
  3. Hebrews 12:20 Exodus 19:12,13
  4. Hebrews 12:21 See Deut. 9:19.
  5. Hebrews 12:26 Haggai 2:6
  6. Hebrews 12:29 Deut. 4:24