NEW TESTAMENT · VERSE 12

Hebrews 12:12

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Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,

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Hebrews 12:9–15

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Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?

10

For they indeed for a few days disciplined us as seemed good to them, but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.

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All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

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Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,

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and make straight paths for your feet, so what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.

14

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

15

looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you and many be defiled by it,

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  1. Isaiah 35:3

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