Modern Literal Version
[Hebrews 12]


     12:1 Therefore, since we also have so-great a cloud of witnesses encompassing about us, we should place away from ourselves every interference and the {F} easily restricting sin and run with endurance the contest laying before us. 12:2 Looking away from things, look toward Jesus, the author and perfecter of the faith, who endured the cross in exchange-for the joy that laid before him, despising shame and has sat down by the right hand of the throne of God. 12:3 For* study him who has endured such dispute by sinners to himself, that* you* might not be weary, fainting in your* souls. 12:4 You* have not yet withstood as far as blood, in your struggle against sin. 12:5 And you* have forgotten the encouragement which reasons with you* as with sons, НMy son, do not regard-lightly the disciplining of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him; 12:6 For*whom the Lord loves*, he disciplines and scourges every son, whom he is accepting.М {Prov. 3:11-12, Job 5:17} 12:7 If you* endure disciplining; God is dealing with you* as with sons; for* what is theson whom his father does not discipline? 12:8 But if you* are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, consequently, you* are illegitimate and not sons. 12:9 Thereafter, we have had the fathers of our flesh as a corrector of us and we revered them. Will we not much rather be made subject to the Father of spirits and live? 12:10 For* they indeed disciplined us *for a few days according to what did seem right to them; but he does it upon what is advantageous for us, *that*we may receive of his holiness. 12:11 Now all disciplining does not seem to be a thing of joy for the present, but of sorrow; yet later it gives peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised because of it. 12:12 Hence straighten your drooping hands and the paralyzed knees;12:13 and make* straight tracks for your* feet, that* what is lame may not be turned aside, but rather should be healed.


     12:14 Pursue peace with all men and the sanctification without which no one will see the Lord:12:15 exercising the oversight of yourselves lest there is anyone who falls-short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing upward might trouble you* and the many might be defiled through this; 12:16 lest there is any fornicator or profane person, like Esau, who gave awayhis birthright in exchange-for one dinner. 12:17 For* you* know thereafter that even wishing to inherit the blessing, he was rejected*; for* he found no chance for repentance although he sought it with tears.


     12:18 For* you* have not come to a mountain which has been touched and burned with fire and to blackness and to darkness and to tempest, 12:19 and to the noise of a trumpet and to the voice of words; which voice those who heard renounced, asking the word not to be added to them. 12:20For* they were not able to carry out what was ordered, НEven if a beast might touch the mountain, it will be stoned.М {Ex. 19:12-13, 16, Deut. 4:11} 12:21 And so fearful was the manifestation, thatMoses said, НI am fearful and trembling. {Deut. 9:19} 12:22 But you* have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem and to tens of thousands of messengers,12:23 to the festal-gathering and to the congregation of the firstborn ones registered in the heavens and to God, the Judge of all, and to the spirits of perfected righteous men, 12:24 and to Jesus the intermediary of a {F} new covenant* and to the blood of sprinkling which speaks better than that of Abel. 12:25 Beware that you* do not renounce him who speaks. For* if they did not escape when they renounced him who divinely-warned them upon the earth, much more we may not escapewho are turning away from him who warns from the heavens; 12:26 whose voice then shook the earth. But now he has promised, saying, НStill once for all, I do not only shake the earth, but also the heaven.М {Hag. 2:6} 12:27 And the saying, still once more, indicates the transfer of those things which are shaken, as of things that have been made*, in order that those things which are not shaken may remain. 12:28 Hence, receiving an unshakable kingdom, we may have grace, through which we may give-divine service in ways well pleasing to God with reverence and godly-fear;12:29 for* our God is a consuming fire.


    {Footnotes: Heb 12:1 Or: popular sin; what stands around us well. 12:24 SEE 7:22 footnote or Appendix.}

        


Modern Literal Version Preface & Appendix , copyright 1987, 1999, 2013 by G. Allen Walker for the MLV New Testament Committee.
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