KJV Easy Read Bible The Race of Faith1Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which does so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, surrounded; endurance 2Looking to Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. The Discipline of God3For consider Him that endured such contradiction of sinners against Himself, lest youp be wearied and faint in yourp minds. 4Youp have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin. 5And youp have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to youp as to children, My son, despise not you the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are rebuked of Him: PROV 3:11 | discipline 6For whom the Lord loves He chastens, and scourges every son whom He receives. disciplines; whips 7If youp endure chastening, God deals with youp as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chastens not? 8But if youp be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are youp illegitimate children, and not sons. discipline; sharers 9Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live? submission 10For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but He for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness. truly; as seemed good to them 11Now no chastening for the present seems to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to them which are exercised thereby. discipline; trained Renew Your Spiritual Vitality12Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees; strengthen 13And make straight paths for yourp feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed. 14Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: 15Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of god; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble youp, and thereby many be defiled; DEU 29:18 | carefully 16Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. GEN 25:32 | godless; food 17For youp know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears. GEN 27:34 | turning around, changing his mind to think more like God The Glorious Company18For youp are not come to the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor to blackness, and darkness, and tempest, EX 19:12 19And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard entreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more: begged 20(For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart: EX 19:13 21And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:) DEU 9:19 22But youp are come to mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, 23To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, 24And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaks better things than that of Abel. GEN 4:10 | agreement Hear the Heavenly Voice25See that youp refuse not Him that speaks. For if they escaped not who refused Him that spoke on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from Him that speaks from heaven: EX 20:19 26Whose voice then shook the earth: but now He has promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. HAG 2:6 27And this word, Yet once more, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. 28Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: 29For our God is a consuming fire. DEU 4:24 The Trusted King James in an Easy Read Format® is a registered trademarks of Whitaker Corporation. KJVERTM, Word of GodTM, Red Letter OldTM, Old Testament Direct Words of God in RedTM, King James Version Sword BibleTM, and SwordKJVTM are trademarked slogans of Whitaker Corporation. |
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