Hebreo 12
Ang Salita ng Dios (Tagalog Contemporary Bible)
Ang Dios na Ama Natin
12 Napapaligiran tayo ng maraming tao na nagpapatotoo tungkol sa pananampalataya nila sa Dios. Kaya talikuran na natin ang kasalanang pumipigil sa atin at alisin ang anumang hadlang sa pagtakbo natin. Buong tiyaga tayong magpatuloy sa takbuhing itinakda ng Dios para sa atin. 2 Ituon natin ang ating paningin kay Jesus na siyang sandigan ng pananampalataya natin mula sa simula hanggang sa katapusan. Tiniis niya ang paghihirap sa krus at hindi niya ito ikinahiya, dahil inisip niya ang kaligayahang naghihintay sa kanya. At ngayon nga ay nakaupo na siya sa kanan ng trono ng Dios.
3 Isipin nʼyo ang mga tiniis ni Jesus na paghihirap sa kamay ng mga makasalanang tao, para hindi kayo panghinaan ng loob. 4 Kung tutuusin, wala pa namang pinatay sa inyo dahil sa pakikipaglaban sa kasalanan. 5 Baka nakalimutan nʼyo na ang pangaral ng Dios sa inyo bilang mga anak niya:
“Anak, huwag mong balewalain ang pagdidisiplina ng Panginoon,
at huwag kang panghinaan ng loob kung sinasaway ka niya.
6 Sapagkat dinidisiplina ng Panginoon ang mga minamahal niya,
at pinapalo niya ang itinuturing niyang mga anak.”[a]
7 Tiisin nʼyo ang lahat ng paghihirap bilang pagdidisiplina ng Dios sa inyo dahil itinuturing niya kayong mga anak. Sino bang anak ang hindi dinidisiplina ng ama? 8 Kung hindi kayo dinidisiplina ng Dios gaya ng pagdidisiplina niya sa lahat ng anak niya, hindi kayo mga tunay na anak kundi mga anak sa labas. 9 Kahit ang mga ama natin dito sa lupa ay dinidisiplina tayo, at sa kabila nito, iginagalang natin sila. Kaya lalong dapat tayong magpasakop sa pagdidisiplina ng ating Ama na nasa langit, para maging mabuti ang pamumuhay natin. 10 Sa maikling panahon, dinidisiplina tayo ng mga ama natin dito sa lupa ayon sa inaakala nilang mabuti. Ngunit ang pagdidisiplina ng Dios ay laging para sa ikabubuti natin upang maging banal tayong gaya niya. 11 Habang dinidisiplina tayo, hindi tayo natutuwa kundi nasasaktan. Ngunit ang ibubunga naman nito sa bandang huli ay ang mapayapa at matuwid na pamumuhay.
Mga Babala at Bilin
12 Kaya palakasin ninyo ang sarili nʼyo at patibayin ang inyong loob. 13 Lumakad kayo sa matuwid na daan upang ang mga kapatid na sumusunod sa inyo, na mahihina ang pananampalataya, ay hindi matisod at mapilayan kundi lumakas. 14 Pagsikapan ninyong mamuhay nang may mabuting relasyon sa lahat ng tao, at magpakabanal kayo. Sapagkat kung hindi banal ang pamumuhay nʼyo, hindi nʼyo makikita ang Panginoon. 15 Ingatan nʼyo na walang sinuman sa inyo ang tatalikod sa biyaya ng Dios. At huwag ninyong hayaang umiral ang samaan ng loob sa inyo at marami ang madamay. 16 Ingatan din ninyo na walang sinuman sa inyo ang gagawa ng sekswal na imoralidad o mamumuhay nang gaya ni Esau, na hindi pinahalagahan ang mga espiritwal na bagay, dahil ipinagpalit niya ang karapatan niya bilang panganay sa isang kainan.[b] 17 At alam nʼyo na rin na pagkatapos ay hiningi ni Esau sa kanyang ama ang pagpapalang nauukol sa panganay, pero tinanggihan siya. Sapagkat hindi na mababago ang ginawa niya anumang pagsisikap at pag-iyak ang gawin niya.
18 Ang paglapit nʼyo sa Dios ay hindi katulad ng paglapit ng mga Israelita noon. Lumapit sila sa isang bundok na nakikita nila – ang Bundok ng Sinai na may nagliliyab na apoy, may kadiliman at malakas na hangin. 19 Nakarinig din sila ng tunog ng trumpeta at boses ng nagsasalita. At nang marinig nila ang boses na iyon, nagmakaawa silang huwag na itong magsalita pa sa kanila 20 dahil hindi nila makayanan ang utos na ito: “Ang sinumang tumapak sa bundok, kahit hayop, ay babatuhin hanggang sa mamatay.”[c] 21 Tunay na kakila-kilabot ang tanawing iyon, kaya maging si Moises ay nagsabi, “Nanginginig ako sa takot!”[d]
22 Ngunit hindi ganito ang paglapit nʼyo sa Panginoon. Dahil ang nilapitan ninyo ay ang Bundok ng Zion, ang lungsod ng Dios na buhay, ang Jerusalem na nasa langit na may libu-libong anghel na nagtitipon nang may kagalakan. 23 Lumapit kayo sa pagtitipon[e] ng mga itinuturing na mga panganay ng Dios, na ang mga pangalan nila ay nakasulat sa langit. Lumapit kayo sa Dios na siyang hukom ng lahat, at sa mga espiritu ng mga taong itinuring na matuwid ng Dios at ginawa na niyang ganap. 24 Lumapit kayo kay Jesus na siyang tagapamagitan natin sa Dios sa bagong kasunduan. Ang kasunduang itoʼy pinagtibay ng kanyang dugo na higit na mabuti kaysa sa dugo ni Abel na humihingi ng katarungan.
25 Kaya mag-ingat kayo at huwag tanggihan ang Dios na nagsasalita sa atin. Ang mga tao noon na hindi nakinig sa mga propeta rito sa lupa ay hindi nakaligtas sa parusa. Paano kaya tayo makakaligtas kung hindi natin pakikinggan ang nagsasalita mula sa langit? 26 Yumanig noon ang lupa nang magsalita ang Dios. At ngayon ay nangako siya, “Minsan ko pang yayanigin ang mundo, pati na rin ang langit.”[f] 27 Ang katagang “minsan pa” ay nagpapahiwatig na aalisin ng Dios ang lahat ng nilikha niya na nayayanig, para manatili ang mga bagay na hindi nayayanig. 28 Kaya magpasalamat tayo sa Dios dahil kabilang na tayo sa kaharian niya na hindi nayayanig. Sambahin natin siya sa paraang kalugod-lugod, na may takot at paggalang sa kanya, 29 dahil kapag nagparusa ang ating Dios, itoʼy parang apoy na nakakatupok.[g]
Hebrews 12
Evangelical Heritage Version
Run the Race
12 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us get rid of every burden and the sin that so easily ensnares us, and let us run with patient endurance the race that is laid out for us. 2 Let us keep our eyes fixed on Jesus, who is the author of our faith and the one who brings it to its goal. In view of the joy set before him, he endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of God’s throne. 3 Carefully consider him who endured such hostility against himself from sinful people, so that you do not grow weary and lose heart.
The Lord’s Discipline
4 You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood in your fight against sin. 5 Have you also forgotten the encouragement that addresses you as sons?
My son, do not regard the Lord’s discipline lightly,
and do not become weary of his correction.
6 For the Lord disciplines the one whom he loves,
and he corrects every son he accepts.[a]
7 Endure suffering as discipline. God is dealing with you as sons. Is there a son whose father does not discipline him? 8 If you are not disciplined (and all of us have received it), then you are illegitimate children and not sons. 9 In addition, we have earthly fathers[b] who disciplined us, and we respected them. Should we not submit even more to the Father of the spirits[c] and live? 10 They disciplined us for a little while, according to what seemed best to them, but God disciplines us for our good, so that we may have a share in his holiness. 11 No discipline seems pleasant when it is happening, but painful, yet later it yields a peaceful harvest of righteousness for those who have been trained by it.
12 Therefore strengthen your weak hands and feeble knees, 13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be dislocated but rather healed.
14 Pursue peace with everyone and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord. 15 Take care so that no one falls short of God’s grace and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and so defile many. 16 Take care that no one becomes sexually immoral or worldly, like Esau, who gave away his right as firstborn for a single meal. 17 Certainly you know that afterward he was rejected when he wanted to inherit the blessing, for he found no chance to change his father’s mind, even though he sought it with tears.
You Have Come to Mount Zion
18 You have not come to a mountain that can be touched[d] and to burning fire, to darkness, to gloom, to a raging storm, 19 to the sound of a trumpet, and to a voice that spoke. Those who heard the voice asked that not one more word be added, 20 because they could not endure what was commanded: “If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned.”[e] 21 The sight was so terrifying that even Moses said, “I am trembling with fear.”[f]
22 Instead, you have come to Mount Zion, the city of the living God; to the heavenly Jerusalem; to tens of thousands of angels in joyful assembly; 23 to the church of the firstborn whose names are written in heaven; to God, who is the judge of all; to the spirits of righteous people who have been made perfect; 24 to Jesus, the mediator of a new testament;[g] and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better message than the blood of Abel.
25 See to it that you do not refuse to listen to the one who is speaking. For if those people did not escape when they refused to listen to the one who spoke God’s message on earth, how much less likely is it that we will escape, if we turn away from the one who spoke God’s message to us from heaven? 26 At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, “Once more I will shake not only the earth but also heaven.”[h]
27 The words “once more” clearly indicate the removal of the things that are being shaken, that is, the things that have been made, so that the things that cannot be shaken remain permanently. 28 Therefore, since we are going to receive an unshakeable kingdom, let us be thankful. This is how we serve God in an acceptable way, with reverence and awe. 29 For our God is a consuming fire.
Footnotes
- Hebrews 12:6 Proverbs 3:11-12
- Hebrews 12:9 Literally fathers of our flesh
- Hebrews 12:9 Or our spiritual Father
- Hebrews 12:18 Some witnesses to the text read to what can be touched.
- Hebrews 12:20 Exodus 19:12-13
- Hebrews 12:21 Deuteronomy 9:19
- Hebrews 12:24 Or covenant
- Hebrews 12:26 Haggai 2:6
Hebrews 12
King James Version
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,
2 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.
3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
4 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
5 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:
6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
8 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
9 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.
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