Hebreos 12
La Palabra (Hispanoamérica)
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. 2 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. 3 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
4 En realidad, aún no han llegado ustedes a derramar sangre en su lucha contra el pecado, 5 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, 6 pues el Señor corrige a quien ama y castiga a quien reconoce como hijo. 7 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? 8 Pero si quedan privados de la corrección que todos reciben, es que son bastardos y no hijos legítimos.
9 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.
Hebrews 12
Good News Translation
God Our Father
12 As for us, we have this large crowd of witnesses around us. So then, let us rid ourselves of everything that gets in the way, and of the sin which holds on to us so tightly, and let us run with determination the race that lies before us. 2 Let us keep our eyes fixed on Jesus, on whom our faith depends from beginning to end. He did not give up because of the cross! On the contrary, because of the joy that was waiting for him, he thought nothing of the disgrace of dying on the cross, and he is now seated at the right side of God's throne.
3 Think of what he went through; how he put up with so much hatred from sinners! So do not let yourselves become discouraged and give up. 4 For in your struggle against sin you have not yet had to resist to the point of being killed. 5 (A)Have you forgotten the encouraging words which God speaks to you as his children?
“My child, pay attention when the Lord corrects you,
and do not be discouraged when he rebukes you.
6 Because the Lord corrects everyone he loves,
and punishes everyone he accepts as a child.”
7 Endure what you suffer as being a father's punishment; your suffering shows that God is treating you as his children. Was there ever a child who was not punished by his father? 8 If you are not punished, as all his children are, it means you are not real children, but bastards. 9 In the case of our human fathers, they punished us and we respected them. How much more, then, should we submit to our spiritual Father and live! 10 Our human fathers punished us for a short time, as it seemed right to them; but God does it for our own good, so that we may share his holiness. 11 When we are punished, it seems to us at the time something to make us sad, not glad. Later, however, those who have been disciplined by such punishment reap the peaceful reward of a righteous life.
Instructions and Warnings
12 (B)Lift up your tired hands, then, and strengthen your trembling knees! 13 (C)Keep walking on straight paths, so that the lame foot may not be disabled, but instead be healed.
14 Try to be at peace with everyone, and try to live a holy life, because no one will see the Lord without it. 15 (D)Guard against turning back from the grace of God. Let no one become like a bitter plant that grows up and causes many troubles with its poison. 16 (E)Let no one become immoral or unspiritual like Esau, who for a single meal sold his rights as the older son. 17 (F)Afterward, you know, he wanted to receive his father's blessing; but he was turned back, because he could not find any way to change what he had done, even though in tears he looked for it.[a]
18 (G)You have not come, as the people of Israel came, to what you can feel, to Mount Sinai with its blazing fire, the darkness and the gloom, the storm, 19 the blast of a trumpet, and the sound of a voice. When the people heard the voice, they begged not to hear another word, 20 (H)because they could not bear the order which said, “If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned to death.” 21 (I)The sight was so terrifying that Moses said, “I am trembling and afraid!”
22 Instead, you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, with its thousands of angels. 23 You have come to the joyful gathering of God's first-born, whose names are written in heaven. You have come to God, who is the judge of all people, and to the spirits of good people made perfect. 24 (J)You have come to Jesus, who arranged the new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that promises much better things than does the blood of Abel.
25 (K)Be careful, then, and do not refuse to hear him who speaks. Those who refused to hear the one who gave the divine message on earth did not escape. How much less shall we escape, then, if we turn away from the one who speaks from heaven! 26 (L)His voice shook the earth at that time, but now he has promised, “I will once more shake not only the earth but heaven as well.” 27 The words “once more” plainly show that the created things will be shaken and removed, so that the things that cannot be shaken will remain.
28 Let us be thankful, then, because we receive a kingdom that cannot be shaken. Let us be grateful and worship God in a way that will please him, with reverence and awe; 29 (M)because our God is indeed a destroying fire.
Footnotes
- Hebrews 12:17 he looked for it; or he tried to get the blessing.
Hebrews 12
New King James Version
The Race of Faith
12 Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, (A)let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and (B)let us run (C)with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking unto Jesus, the [a]author and [b]finisher of our faith, (D)who for the joy that was set before Him (E)endured the cross, despising the shame, and (F)has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
The Discipline of God(G)
3 (H)For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, (I)lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls. 4 (J)You have not yet resisted to bloodshed, striving against sin. 5 And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons:
(K)“My son, do not despise the [c]chastening of the Lord,
Nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him;
6 For (L)whom the Lord loves He chastens,
And scourges every son whom He receives.”
7 (M)If[d] you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what (N)son is there whom a father does not chasten? 8 But if you are without chastening, (O)of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons. 9 Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to (P)the Father of spirits and live? 10 For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, (Q)that we may be partakers of His holiness. 11 Now no [e]chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields (R)the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
Renew Your Spiritual Vitality(S)
12 Therefore (T)strengthen the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees, 13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.
14 (U)Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, (V)without which no one will see the Lord: 15 looking carefully lest anyone (W)fall short of the grace of God; lest any (X)root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled; 16 lest there be any (Y)fornicator or [f]profane person like Esau, (Z)who for one morsel of food sold his birthright. 17 For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was (AA)rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it diligently with tears.
The Glorious Company
18 For you have not come [g]to (AB)the mountain that may be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness and [h]darkness and tempest, 19 and the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words, so that those who heard it (AC)begged that the word should not be spoken to them anymore. 20 (For they could not endure what was commanded: (AD)“And if so much as a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned [i]or shot with an arrow.” 21 And so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, (AE)“I am exceedingly afraid and trembling.”)
22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, 23 to the [j]general assembly and church of (AF)the firstborn (AG)who are registered in heaven, to God (AH)the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men (AI)made perfect, 24 to Jesus (AJ)the Mediator of the new covenant, and to (AK)the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things (AL)than that of Abel.
Hear the Heavenly Voice
25 See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For (AM)if they did not escape who refused Him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from heaven, 26 whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, (AN)“Yet once more I [k]shake not only the earth, but also heaven.” 27 Now this, “Yet once more,” indicates the (AO)removal of those things that are being shaken, as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may remain.
28 Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we [l]may (AP)serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. 29 For (AQ)our God is a consuming fire.
Footnotes
- Hebrews 12:2 originator
- Hebrews 12:2 perfecter
- Hebrews 12:5 discipline
- Hebrews 12:7 NU, M It is for discipline that you endure; God
- Hebrews 12:11 discipline
- Hebrews 12:16 godless
- Hebrews 12:18 NU to that which
- Hebrews 12:18 NU gloom
- Hebrews 12:20 NU, M omit the rest of v. 20.
- Hebrews 12:23 festal gathering
- Hebrews 12:26 NU will shake
- Hebrews 12:28 M omits may
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