Hebrews 12
World English BibleTranslation
World English Bible
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
1Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,
1Ideoque et nos tantam habentes impositam nubem testium, deponentes omne pondus, et circumstans nos peccatum, per patientiam curramus ad propositum nobis certamen:
2looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
2aspicientes in auctorem fidei, et consummatorem Jesum, qui proposito sibi gaudio sustinuit crucem, confusione contempta, atque in dextera sedis Dei sedet.
3For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.
3Recogitate enim eum qui talem sustinuit a peccatoribus adversum semetipsum contradictionem: ut ne fatigemini, animis vestris deficientes.
4You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin.
4Nondum enim usque ad sanguinem restitistis, adversus peccatum repugnantes:
5You have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;
5et obliti estis consolationis, quæ vobis tamquam filiis loquitur, dicens: Fili mi, noli negligere disciplinam Domini: neque fatigeris dum ab eo argueris.
6for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son whom he receives.”
6Quem enim diligit Dominus, castigat: flagellat autem omnem filium, quem recipit.
7It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline?
7In disciplina perseverate. Tamquam filiis vobis offert se Deus: quis enim filius, quem non corripit pater?
8But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then you are illegitimate, and not children.
8quod si extra disciplinam estis, cujus participes facti sunt omnes: ergo adulteri, et non filii estis.
9Furthermore, 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?
9Deinde patres quidem carnis nostræ, eruditores habuimus, et reverebamur eos, non multo magis obtemperabimus Patri spirituum, et vivemus?
10For 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.
10Et illi quidem in tempore paucorum dierum, secundum voluntatem suam erudiebant nos: hic autem ad id quod utile est in recipiendo sanctificationem ejus.
11All 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.
11Omnis autem disciplina in præsenti quidem videtur non esse gaudii, sed mœroris: postea autem fructum pacatissimum exercitatis per eam, reddet justitiæ.
12Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,
12Propter quod remissas manus, et soluta genua erigite,
13and make straight paths for your feet, so what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.
13et gressus rectos facite pedibus vestris: ut non claudicans quis erret, magis autem sanetur.
14Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,
14Pacem sequimini cum omnibus, et sanctimoniam, sine qua nemo videbit Deum:
15looking 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,
15contemplantes nequis desit gratiæ Dei: ne qua radix amaritudinis sursum germinans impediat, et per illam inquinentur multi.
16lest there be any sexually immoral person or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.
16Ne quis fornicator, aut profanus ut Esau: qui propter unam escam vendidit primitiva sua:
17For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears.
17scitote enim quoniam et postea cupiens hæreditare benedictionem, reprobatus est: non enim invenit pœnitentiæ locum, quamquam cum lacrimis inquisisset eam.
18For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm,
18Non enim accessistis ad tractabilem montem, et accensibilem ignem, et turbinem, et caliginem, et procellam,
19the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which those who heard it begged that not one more word should be spoken to them,
19et tubæ sonum, et vocem verborum, quam qui audierunt, excusaverunt se, ne eis fieret verbum.
20for they could not stand that which was commanded, “If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned”.
20Non enim portabant quod dicebatur: Et si bestia tetigerit montem, lapidabitur.
21So fearful was the appearance that Moses said, “I am terrified and trembling.”
21Et ita terribile erat quod videbatur. Moyses dixit: Exterritus sum, et tremebundus.
22But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,
22Sed accessistis ad Sion montem, et civitatem Dei viventis, Jerusalem cælestem, et multorum millium angelorum frequentiam,
23to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,
23et ecclesiam primitivorum, qui conscripti sunt in cælis, et judicem omnium Deum, et spiritus justorum perfectorum,
24to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.
24et testamenti novi mediatorem Jesum, et sanguinis aspersionem melius loquentem quam Abel.
25See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,
25Videte ne recusetis loquentem. Si enim illi non effugerunt, recusantes eum, qui super terram loquebatur: multo magis nos, qui de cælis loquentem nobis avertimus.
26whose voice shook the earth then, but now he has promised, saying, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heavens.”
26Cujus vox movit terram tunc: nunc autem repromittit, dicens: Adhuc semel, et ego movebo non solum terram, sed et cælum.
27This phrase, “Yet once more” signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain.
27Quod autem, Adhuc semel, dicit: declarat mobilium translationem tamquam factorum, ut maneant ea quæ sunt immobilia.
28Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let’s have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,
28Itaque regnum immobile suscipientes, habemus gratiam: per quam serviamus placentes Deo, cum metu et reverentia.
29for our God is a consuming fire.
29Etenim Deus noster ignis consumens est.
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