Hebrews 12:12-19

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

¹² Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees^{(A) 13} and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but rather be healed.^(B)

Warnings against Rejecting God’s Grace

¹⁴ Pursue peace with everyone and the holiness without which no one will see the Lord. ¹⁵ See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God, that no root of bitterness springs up and causes trouble and through it many become defiled.^{(C) 16} See to it that no one becomes an immoral and godless person, as Esau was, who sold his birthright for a single meal.^{(D) 17} You know that later, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no chance to repent, even though he sought the blessing^[a] with tears.^(E)

¹⁸ You have not come to something^[b] that can be touched, a blazing fire, and darkness, and gloom, and a tempest,^{(F) 19} and the sound of a trumpet, and a voice whose words made the hearers beg that not another word be spoken to them.^(G)