1. Therefore, since we have such a great cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also get rid of every weight and entangling sin. Let us run with endurance the race set before us,
2. focusing on Yeshua, the initiator and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before Him, He endured the cross, disregarding its shame; and He has taken His seat at the right hand of the throne of God.
3. Consider Him who has endured such hostility by sinners against Himself, so that you may not grow weary in your souls and lose heart.
4. In struggling against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of bloodshed.
5. Have you forgotten the warning addressed to you as sons? “My son, do not take lightly the discipline of Adonai or lose heart when you are corrected by Him,
6. because Adonai disciplines the one He loves and punishes every son He accepts.”
7. It is for discipline that you endure. God is treating you as sons—for what son does a father not discipline?
8. But if you are without discipline—something all have come to share—then you are illegitimate and not sons.
9. Besides, we are used to having human fathers as instructors—and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?
10. Indeed, for a short time they disciplined us as seemed best to them; but He does so for our benefit, so that we may share in His holiness.
11. Now all discipline seems painful at the moment—not joyful. But later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
12. Therefore, strengthen the hands that are weak and the knees that are feeble!
13. And make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame will not be pulled out of joint but rather be healed.