11. At the time, all discipline seems a cause not for joy but for pain, yet later it brings the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who are trained by it.
12. So strengthen your drooping hands and your weak knees.
13. Make straight paths for your feet, that what is lame may not be dislocated but healed.
14. Strive for peace with everyone, and for that holiness without which no one will see the Lord.
15. See to it that no one be deprived of the grace of God, that no bitter root spring up and cause trouble, through which many may become defiled,
16. that no one be an immoral or profane person like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal.