Hebrews 12:10-18
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10 For 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.
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11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
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12 Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
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13 And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.
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14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
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15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
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16 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
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17 For ye 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.
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18 For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,