12. Lift up your tired hands, then, and strengthen your trembling knees!
13. 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. 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. Let no one become immoral or unspiritual like Esau, who for a single meal sold his rights as the elder son.
17. Afterwards, you know, he wanted to receive his father's blessing; but he was turned away, because he could not find any way to change what he had done, even though in tears he looked for it.
18. 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. because they could not bear the order which said, “If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned to death.”
21. 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 firstborn, 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.