Hebrews 12

Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us put off every weight, and the closely-besetting sin, and with endurance run the contest that is set before us, 2 looking unto the author and perfecter of faith, Jesus, who, against the joy set before him, did endure a cross, despising the shame, and did sit down also on the right hand of the throne of God; 3 for consider again him who endured such contention from sinners against himself, that ye may not be wearied in your souls, being faint. 4 Ye did not yet resist unto blood, striving with sin; 5 and ye have forgotten the exhortation that doth speak fully with you as with sons:

My son, be not despising the disciplining of the Lord, nor be faint, being reproved by him, 6 for whom the Lord doth love he doth discipline, and he flogs every son whom he receiveth;

7 It is for disciplining that ye endure; God beareth himself unto you as unto sons—for who is a son whom a father doth not discipline? 8 and if ye are apart from disciplining, of which all have become partakers, then bastards are ye, and not sons. 9 Then, indeed, we have had fathers of our flesh, disciplining us, and we reverenced them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live? 10 for they, indeed, for a few days, according to what seemed good to them were disciplining us, but he for profit, to be partakers of his holiness; 11 and all disciplining for the present, indeed, doth not seem to be of joy, but of sorrow, yet afterward it doth yield the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those exercised through it. 12 Wherefore, set ye up your hanging-down hands and your loosened knees; 13 and make straight paths for your feet, that that which is lame may not be turned aside, but rather be healed; 14 pursue peace with all, and the holiness, apart from which no one shall see the Lord, 15 looking diligently lest anyone be failing of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up may give trouble, and through this many may be defiled; 16 lest anyone be a fornicator, or a profane person, as Esau, who in exchange for one morsel of food did sell his birthright, 17 for ye know that also afterwards, wishing to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance [mind-change], though with tears he sought it.