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What More Shall I Say?
32 And what more may I say? For time will fail me while telling about Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, both David and Samuel, and the prophets, 33 who through faith conquered kingdoms, worked righteousness[a], obtained[b] promises, stopped the mouths of lions, 34 quenched the power of fire, escaped the edges of the sword, were strengthened from weakness, became mighty in battle, put-to-flight armies of foreigners. 35 Women received their dead by resurrection— but others were tortured, not accepting redemption[c], in order that they might obtain a better resurrection. 36 And others received a trial of mockings and whippings, and furthermore of bonds and prison. 37 They were stoned, they were sawn-in-two, they died by murder of the sword. They went-around in sheepskins, in skins of-goats, being in-need, being afflicted, being mistreated— 38 of whom the world was not worthy— wandering in desolate-places and mountains and caves and openings of the earth.
They Did Not Receive The Promise, For God Had a Better Promise For Us
39 And these all, having been attested through their faith, did not receive the promise— 40 God having provided[d] something better for us, in order that they should not be perfected[e] apart from us.
So Run Your Race With Endurance, Looking To Jesus
12 So-therefore we also[f], having so large a cloud of witnesses[g] surrounding us, having laid-aside every weight[h] and the easily-entangling[i] sin, let us be running the race being set-before us with endurance 2 while looking-away toward the author and perfecter[j] of the faith[k]— Jesus— Who endured a cross for[l] the joy being set-before Him, having disregarded[m] the shame[n], and has sat-down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Consider His Endurance
3 For consider[o] the One having endured such opposition[p] by sinners against Himself, in order that you may not be weary in your souls, losing-heart— 4 you did not yet resist to the point of blood while struggling against sin!
And Have You Forgotten That God Disciplines Those He Loves?
5 And have[q] you completely-forgotten[r] the exhortation which speaks[s] to you as sons?: “My son, do not be thinking-lightly[t] of the discipline[u] of the Lord, nor losing-heart while being rebuked by Him. 6 For the one whom the Lord loves He disciplines, and He whips[v] every son whom He accepts” [Prov 3:11-12].
God Is Dealing With You As Sons
7 You are enduring[w] [your trials] for discipline; God is dealing with you as with sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? 8 But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers[x], then you are illegitimate[y] children and not sons.
And God Is Disciplining You For Your Benefit
9 Furthermore, we had fathers of our flesh[z] as discipliners and were respecting them— but shall we not much more be subject to the Father of [our] spirits and live? 10 For the ones were disciplining us for a few days according to the thing seeming good to them; but the One does so for our benefit[aa], so that we may share-in His holiness.
And His Discipline Will Yield The Fruit of Righteousness
11 And all discipline for the present does not seem to be a thing of joy, but of grief— but later it yields[ab] the peaceful fruit of righteousness to the ones having been trained by it.
Therefore Straighten Up And Walk Straight Paths
12 Therefore straighten-up[ac] the hands having been slackened[ad] and the knees having been made-feeble[ae], 13 and be making straight paths for your feet, in order that the lame part may not be dislocated[af] but rather may be healed.
Disciples' Literal New Testament: Serving Modern Disciples by More Fully Reflecting the Writing Style of the Ancient Disciples, Copyright © 2011 Michael J. Magill. All Rights Reserved. Published by Reyma Publishing