Therefore we also, who have all these witnesses surrounding us like a cloud, cast from us every weight and also the sin that is always prepared for us, and with endurance let us run this contest that is set for us.

And let us look to Y'shua, who was the head and the completer of our faith, who for the joy that was his endured the cross and despised the shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of Elohim.

Look therefore how much he endured from those sinners who were adversaries of their own soul, so that you may not grow weary and your soul may not become remiss.

You have not yet come as far as blood in the contest against sin.

And you have forgotten the instruction that speaks to you as to sons: My son, do not disregard the discipline of Master YHWH, and do not let your soul faint when you are rebuked by him.

For whom Master YHWH loves he disciplines, and he scourges the sons in whom he is pleased.

Therefore endure the discipline, because Elohim is dealing with you as with sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

But if you are without the discipline with which everyone is disciplined, you have become strangers and not sons.

And if our fathers of the flesh disciplined us and we held them in awe, how much more then ought we to be subject to the Father of spirits and live?¹

For they disciplined us for a short time as they wished, but Elohim for our help, that we may share in his holiness.

Now all discipline in its time is not counted as joy but as grief; yet afterward it gives the fruit of peace and of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

Because of this, strengthen your slack hands and your tottering knees.

And make straight paths for your feet, so that the limb that is lame may not be wrenched, but may be healed.

Pursue peace with every person, and holiness, without which no one will see our Master.

And be careful, lest anyone be found among you lacking the grace of Elohim; or lest a root of bitterness spring up and trouble you, and by it many be defiled.

or lest anyone be found among you a fornicator, or reckless like Esau, who for one meal sold his birthright.

For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected; for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it with tears.

For you have not come to the fire that burned and was tangible mount; nor to the darkness and the gloom and the storm;

nor to the sound of the horn and the voice of words, which those who heard it begged that it would not be spoken with them any more;

for they were not able to endure what was commanded, that even if a beast approached the mountain it would be stoned.

And so fearful was the sight that Moshe said, I am afraid and I tremble.

But you have drawn near to the mountain of Tsiyon and to the city of the living Elohim, to Urishlim that is in heaven, and to the assembly of myriads of messengers;

and to the congregation of the firstborn who are written in heaven, and to Elohim the Judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous who are perfected;

and to Y'shua the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the sprinkling of his blood that speaks better than that of Habeel.

Watch out, therefore, lest you refuse to hear him who speaks with you. For if those did not escape who refused to hear him who spoke with them on the earth, how much more shall we not, if we refuse to hear him who speaks with us from heaven?

Whose voice shook the earth; but now he has promised and said, Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also heaven.

And this that he says, Once more, shows the changing of those things that are shaken, because they are made, so that those that are not shaken may remain.

Therefore, since we have received a kingdom that is not shaken, let us hold the grace by which we may serve and please Elohim with reverence and fear.

For our Elohim is a consuming fire.